Nilima Rai

Supervisor: Reena Kukreja
Research interests: The migration of people has remained a permanent and integral part of societies and she is intrigued by this complex and multidimensional phenomenon, with changing forms and patterns over time. So, her areas of interest for both academic and professional career is in the with the issues of migration, marriage-migration, social justice, women's rights, inclusion, etc. Similarly, with her prior academic and research experiences she is also interested to work on the cross-cutting issues of conflict, disaster, and gender.

Nilima Rai is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Gender Studies, at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She holds a Master's degree in Development Studies: gender, human rights, and conflict studies from Social Justice Perspectives from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University,  the Netherlands. She also completed a Master's in Conflict, Peace, and Development Studies from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.