Muhammad Atcha

DPhil Candidate  

Affiliation: 
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law
Expert in: 
Forced migration, Gender and sexuality in migration, Transnationalism
Geographic focus:  
South and Southeast Asia, North America

Muhammad's research examines how Rohingya refugees resolve disputes within and outside camp borders. Through a multi-sited ethnography, he traces the migration trajectories of Rohingya refugees from Burma to examine the complex webs of power relations, law, and Islamic social norms, alongside the reproduction and transformation of kinship and traditional structures used by the Rohingyas to resolve disputes both in the camps and across diasporic communities in North America. Muhammad's research highlights how and when different norms from international, domestic, and sharia law, intersect to govern refugee lives. Muhammad's prior research examined the legal consciousness, documentary practices, and constructions of the Canadian State amongst Ukrainian migrants during their migration journey from Ukraine to Canada in 2022.