Graduate Associate
sprahman[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Political Science, York University
Research Keywords:
Migrant workers; labour rights; domestic workers; Bangladesh, India, Nepal
Research Region(s):
Bangladesh, India, Nepal, South Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Sanjana P. Rahman is a PhD student in Political Science at York University specializing in Comparative Politics and Gender and Politics. Her research investigates avenues for improving South Asian migrant workers’ access to adequate rights and protections through effective migrant-sending state policies, particularly in the case of migrant domestic workers and construction workers in the Gulf region. Specifically, her work focuses on the migrant-sending states of Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
Sanjana has written for The Business Standard on labour rights-related topics and has worked at BRAC Bangladesh on socioeconomic issues faced by farmworkers in rural Bangladesh. Previously, she completed her MA in Political Science at York University (research work: “Co-Production of Migrant Precariousness by Sending and Receiving States: The Case of Bangladeshi Workers in the Gulf Region”). She holds a BAH in Development Studies and Economics from Queen’s University, where her major research paper probed the migrant labour exploitation associated with the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Sanjana is a recipient of the 2023 SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship Doctoral Award.