Bio
Suraj Girijashanker is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School, India and Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is also pursuing his Doctorate in Juridical Science at UCLA School of Law as a Distinguished Graduate Fellow with the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Prior to transitioning to academia, he served as a Legal Advisor with the Immigration and Protection Tribunal in New Zealand; Expert on Mission with UNHCR Turkey; Associate Refugee Status Determination Officer with UNHCR Egypt; and Legal Representative at Manus Island Regional Processing Centre in Papua New Guinea.
Doctoral Project: Asylum as an encounter between the global North and South: Exploring imperial and racial narratives in relation to foreign intervention