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Pal, Shulagna

Shulagna
Pal

Shulagna Pal is a PhD Candidate in Global and Area Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a scholar of the ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius “Uncertainty” Program. Her research examines the intersections of climate change, migration, gender, religion, and social marginalization in the Indo-Pacific region, with a particular focus on climate-induced displacement and women’s experiences in environmentally vulnerable borderland and coastal communities in India and Thailand. Drawing on ethnographic and mixed-methods research, she investigates how ecological crises reshape mobility, livelihoods, identities, and resilience strategies among marginalized populations. Alongside her doctoral work, she has served as Research Assistant and Project Collaborator at several projects organised by IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as Graduate Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, contributing to interdisciplinary projects on borders, emotions, mobility, and South Asian studies. She has also been actively involved in collaborative research initiatives within the Berlin University Alliance, including projects on research ethics, transregional knowledge production, and South Asian studies, fostering academic exchange across institutions and disciplines. More recently, she has collaborated with academic and policy networks in South and Southeast Asia, including the Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand) and the South and Southeast Asia Multidisciplinary Applied Research Network on Transforming Societies of the Global South (SMARTS), contributing to discussions on gender, mobility, and climate-related transformations. Prior to her doctoral studies in Germany, she worked in foreign policy research and project management with think tank Delhi Policy Group, and assisted as consultant in association with Asia Foundation and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. contributing to research and policy dialogues on regional cooperation, connectivity, migration, and Indo-Pacific affairs across South and Southeast Asia. Her professional and research engagements have included collaborations and field-based work in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, China, and Thailand. She has been a recipient of the EIZ fellowship from Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V and pursued a second Masters in Global History at Humboldt and Freie Universität. Her broader research interests include migration and displacement, environmental mobility, intersectionality, gender, resilience, border studies, non-traditional security, and sustainable development.
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 6211
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/shulagna-pal-b76225154/

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Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
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  • Humboldt University

    University, Berlin, Germany
    PhD researcher

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