Graduate Associate
Doctoral Candidate
Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, 91亚色
Research Keywords:
Gendered migration; forced displacement; feminist agency; transnational resistance; diaspora and belonging; intersectionality; politics of care
Research Region(s):
Burma/Myanmar, Southeast Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Southeast Asian Diaspora
(Ame) Khin MAY-KYAWT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Political Thought at 91亚色. Her research explores the intersections of feminist, postcolonial and migration studies, with a focus on the gendered and intergenerational dimensions of forced displacement. Broadly, her dissertation, 鈥淕endered and Intersectional Impacts of Displacement: Settlement Experiences of Intergenerational Karen Refugee Women in London, Ontario,鈥 examines how refugee women from Myanmar navigate resettlement after decades of protracted displacement along the Thai鈥揗yanmar border. Drawing on intersectionality theory and feminist qualitative methods, her work analyzes how care, cultural memory and agency shape refugee women鈥檚 integration processes and intergenerational relationships in Canada. Through this lens, she considers how global structures of inequality and migration governance are lived and re-negotiated in everyday life. Her research contributes to broader conversations on gendered dimensions of migration鈥攈ow gender shapes and is shaped by migration experiences鈥攁longside questions of emotional belonging and the politics of care in transnational and diasporic contexts.
Additionally, her research interests engage with questions of transnational resistance, feminist agency and diasporic political participation among Myanmar鈥檚 displaced communities. Her forthcoming projects examine how the Myanmar diaspora in Ontario and British Columbia mobilize across borders to confront homeland democratic crises; how women activists in exile along the Thai鈥揗yanmar border sustain gendered forms of activism under precarious conditions following the 2021 military coup; and how transnational feminist solidarities emerge among displaced women, mothers and LGBTQ+ activists. Collectively, these projects seek to theorize the intersections of gender, displacement and democracy, and to illuminate the transformative roles of women and marginalized groups in shaping transnational political futures.