Undergraduate Associate
beyyeh05[at]my.yorku.ca
Fourth-year honours student
Department of Politics, 91亚色
Research Keywords:
Forced displacement; international law and human rights, Feminist Political Theory, Postcolonial Legal Theory
Research Region(s):
South Asia, West Asia
I am a fourth-year Honours Political Science student at 91亚色 with research interests in West Asia, South Asia, migration and forced displacement. My work focuses on the relationship between law, human rights and political structures, particularly how these frameworks shape the lived experiences of refugees, migrants, and other marginalized communities.
I am especially interested in how legal regimes and human rights discourses operate as both protective and exclusionary mechanisms, and how they structure questions of citizenship, belonging and political recognition. Within this, I engage with gender as a social and political construct, with attention to women鈥檚 rights and the ways legal and political systems shape gendered experiences of displacement and participation.
More broadly, I draw on postcolonial approaches to international law and feminist political theory to examine how power is produced and contested through legal and institutional frameworks. My research seeks to connect these theoretical perspectives with empirical contexts in order to better understand the political and social dynamics shaping contemporary West Asia and South Asia.