EASG/BREM Seminar with Dr Farhana Afrin Rahman on "After the Exodus and Beyond: Gender, Belonging, and Everyday Protection in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps"
About the Seminar
Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, this talk examines how forced migration reshapes gender, belonging, and everyday social life in the refugee camps. Building on my first book, After the Exodus: Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps, I explore the ways refugee women negotiate family, humanitarian intervention, and the conditions of prolonged displacement. The talk also reflects on how this research has developed since the book, particularly through my more recent work on everyday protection, gendered authority, and forms of agency that often remain obscured by conventional humanitarian and empowerment frameworks.
Event Details
December 3rd, 2026
14.15-15.30
E2.02, PAIS Building, and Microsoft Teams
About the Speaker
Dr. Farhana Afrin Rahman is an interdisciplinary scholar of international politics. Her research examines how marginalised women across the Global South generate protection, political agency, and knowledge in contexts where international institutions systematically render them invisible, developing a feminist retheorisation of humanitarian governance and international order. Her research draws on feminist and postcolonial approaches to examine lived experiences, and the dynamics of power, care, and knowledge production across the Global South. With over 15 years of experience spanning academia, international development organisations, and the policy sector, she has conducted extended periods of research/fieldwork and worked in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Kenya, Jordan, Indonesia, Kashmir, Uganda, Pakistan, and Japan.
She is currently Assistant Professor in Politics and International Studies at the 果冻传媒. Previously, she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow/Isaac Newton Trust Fellow and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Before that, she was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo, a Non-Residential Fellow at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland, and a Fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center.