A labour expert by training, The Expert works on labour migration, refugee, remittances, settlement, diaspora, trafficking, exile and other inter-related issues. He has vast experience working with government agencies, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations and academic institutions. The Expert has gained extensive fieldwork experience in Southeast Asia, South Asia and West Asia.
Within the short span of his career, he has more than 30 publications on his credit, including authored books, journal articles, policy documents, project documents, and research chapters.
The Expert is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Centre for Development Practice and Research, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He has also been associated with the Institute for Human Rights and Business as a South Asia Regional Hub consultant for the IHRB Migrant Workers Programme. The Expert is a Visiting Senior Fellow of the International Institute of Migration and Development and Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism.
The Expert has completed his PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has received professional training from prestigious institutions like the European University Institute, International Labour Institute, African Union, Institute of Ethnic Studies, Centre for Development Studies and others.
Bonded Labour, Exile, Religious Discrimination, Caste & Community Discrimination, Minority Issues, LGBTQ, Child abuse, sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence, forced marraige, trafficking, forced conscription, criminal deportees, risk of destitution/homelessness, land tenure disputes, ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, torture/risk of political persecutin/risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors, risk of retaliation, safe internal relocation, sufficiency of protection, healthcare access, health systems
As a social scientist, The Expert had numerous opportunities to work on refugee and asylum issues. The Expert has presented their reports and observations in many national and international deliberations. Many of their works related to refugees and asylums are published as reports and academic papers.
Rahman, Mizanur Md and Rakesh, Ranjan (2020). Indian Diaspora Homeland Engagement: Education and Healthcare Sector. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 9780190121341
Ranjan, R. (2021). Remittance Matters: International Migration and Left-Behind Family in Rural India. Migration and Diaspora: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2(2). ISSN: 2581-9437
Md Mizanur Rahman & Rakesh Ranjan (2020) Local migrant organizations in the periphery: providing healthcare in India, Migration and Development, 9:3, 411-427, DOI: 10.1080/21632324.2019.1706248. ISSN- 2163-2324
Rakesh Ranjan and Sarkar, Pinak (2021), Economic profile of 'refugees due to social and political problems' in India: A case study of refugees from Bangladesh and Pakistan, India Migration Reported 2020, edited by S Irudaya Rajan, New Delhi: Routledge
Ranjan, Rakesh (2015), Indian professional immigrants and the healthcare sector in India, for book, `International Migration and Development in South Asia" edited by Md Mizanur Rahman and Tan Tai Yong. London and New York: Rutledge. ISBN- 0415724236.