Nazia Arifa

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About Nazia Arifa

Nazia Arifa is a PhD student at the School of Public Administration in the University of Victoria. She holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. Currently she is on study leave.Prior to her current position, she held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Jagannath University and also served as a Lecturer at Stamford University in Bangladesh. She obtained her M.A. degree in Political Studies from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. She previously completed the National Advanced Certificate Program in Local Authority Administration at the University of Alberta in Canada. She obtained her M.S.S. and B.S.S. degrees in Social Science from the Department of Political Science at the University of Dhaka. She successfully obtained her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) from Viqarunessa Noon School and College. The research areas that she is interested in include migration, refugee studies, border and security governance, local government, peace and conflict studies, immigration and integration policy, anti-racism nonviolence, rights, justice, and gender studies, South Asian politics, Canadian politics, and Middle East politics. As part of her Master's Program, she focused on addressing the challenges related to the settlement and integration of immigrants in Canada's multicultural society.