I am an Academy of Finland (AOF) postdoctoral researcher based at the Karelian Institute. My AOF project explores whether, why, and how the state creates a situation where refugees and asylum seekers are kept indeterminately waiting. It is geographically focused on the Rohingya refugees in the camps of Bangladesh and the asylum seekers residing in different reception centers in Finland.
At the Institute, my works engage with the university strategic program that focuses specifically on the profiling area of “cultural encounters, mobilities and borders.” Broadly, I am interested in exploring the way man-made ideas of borders and bounded spaces affect human mobility and vice versa. As such, I specialize in the study of state, territory, borders, sovereignty, (non)citizenship, and migration. At the same time, I often remain critical regarding “importing” ready-made ideas from the Global North to the Global South in terms of both theory and methods. My scholarship thus sits at the intersection of political geography, critical geopolitics, decolonial praxis, and qualitative research methods.
You can find more about my research here.
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Finland country report. Government responses to increased influx of protection seekers in 2015/16 and 2022/23
Koikkalainen, Saara; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary; Virkkunen, Joni. 2023. NIBR Working Paper. . Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research NIBR, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University -
Gendering the BRI: a viewpoint
Ruwanpura, Kanchana N; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. 2023. Gender, place and culture. [Epub ahead of print 10 Nov 2023]: 1-10 -
Governance and policy changes during times of high influxes of protection seekers. A comparative governance and policy analysis in eight European countries, 2015-June 2023
Hernes, Vilde; Danielsen, Åsne Øygard; Tvedt, Kristian; Staver, Anne Balke; Tronstad, Kristian; Łukasiewicz, Karolina; Pachocka, Marta; Yeliseyeu, Andrei; Casu, Laura; Zschomler, Silke; Berg, Mette Louise; Engler, Marcus; Nowicka, Magdalena; Koikkalainen, Saara; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary; Virkkunen, Joni; Kazepov, Yuri; Berthelot, Brice; Franz, Yvonne. 2023. NIBR Report. . Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) -
Narrative : Enclave dwellers and proxy citizens in Bangladesh and India
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. Teoksessa: Jacobsen, Karen; Majidi, Nassim(toim.) , 2023. Handbook on Forced Migration. s. 190-191. Edward Elgar -
Peacework: Everyday negative peace across south asian borderscapes
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. Teoksessa: Flint, Colin; Dempsey, Kara E(toim.) , 2023. Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict. s. 183-199. Routledge -
Anticipatory state identity: Understanding the Finnish state's approach to the Arctic
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary; Väätänen, Vesa. 2022. Area. 54: 618-626 -
Flexible land: The state and its citizens’ negotiation over land ownership
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. 2022. Geoforum. 130: 46-58 -
New Borders and Mobility in the Age of Globalization
Paasi, Anssi; Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. Teoksessa: Timothy, Dallen J; Gelbman, Alon(toim.) , 2022. Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism. s. 47-60. Routledge -
Showcase citizens: citizenship in the making along the borders of post-colonial South Asia
Ferdoush, Md Azmeary. 2022. Citizenship studies. 2023; 27: 59-80