Course Scholars
Sourina Bej
Sourina Bej is a doctoral candidate in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of Bonn. She has received the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung European International Cooperation (KAS-EIZ) scholarship for her doctoral study on climate migration, sustainability, and resilience among the rural labour migrants from the ecologically endangered Bengal Delta in India.
She has worked as a Research Associate at the School of Conflict and Security Studies in the National Institute of Advanced Studies, India. As a young researcher, she has been a network builder for the International Peace Research Initiative (IPRI) supported by the KAS-India office. She has contributed to the research focus of the NIAS Europe Studies, supported by the KAS-India office; writing regularly on issues such as the BREXIT, radicalisation, energy crisis and right-wing populism in Western Europe. Apart from simultaneously publishing on strategic issues impacting Europe and India, her specific research expertise lies in examining climate migration processes, group identities, and political structures, primarily in South Asia. She has co-edited and authored a book wherein she documented the dam protest movements in the strategic Himalayan borderland of India and China.
Prior, she has also been a journalist at the Times of India, writing on cultures and identities among migrant communities in Tamil Nadu, India.
Research Activities
28 April 2018
Commentary
India-Bangladesh: What if the BNP returns?
Aparupa Bhattacherjee and Sourina Bej
Mainstream, 28 April 2018
2 December 2017
Commentary
How Will the Quad Impact India’s Maritime Security Policy?
Sourina Bej
The Diplomat, 2 December 2017
15 July 2017
Commentary
What Trump's Afghanistan Policy Means for India?
Sourina Bej
The Diplomat, 15 July 2017
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GP Commentaries
NIAS Europe Studies
UK's new bill is a misguided patchwork to Europe's refugee problem
March 2023 | CWA # 930
Sourina Bej
NIAS Europe Studies
The UK: Domestic, regional and global challenges to the new Prime Minister
November 2022 | CWA # 844
Sourina Bej
NIAS Europe Studies
Boris Johnson exits: The Unravelling of UK leadership in crisis
November 2022 | CWA # 841
Sourina Bej
GP Insights
The UK: New bill on illegal migration | Misguided patchwork to Europe's refugee problem
March 2023 | GP Insights # 696
Sourina Bej
The UK: After Boris Johnson’s resignation, a tight race for the next prime minister begins
July 2022 | GP Insights # 644
Sourina Bej
Europe: 'Pay for gas in rubles,' says Putin, EU leaders reject in unison
April 2022 | GP Insights # 626
Sourina Bej
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