AKM Ahsan Ullah is Professor of global and migration studies at the University of Brunei Darussalam (UBD). He has an extensive research portfolio and has worked with institutions such as the City University of Hong Kong, IPH at the University of Ottawa, McMaster University, Saint Mary's University, Dalhousie University in Canada, the American University in Cairo (AUC), Osnabruck University, Germany, and the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. His research areas include migration and mobilities, migration governance, international relations, intercultural encounters and development, with a geographic focus on the Asia-Pacific, Africa, and Middle East, and theoretical focus on globalization and neoliberalism, development and human rights, transnationalism, gender, intersectionality and the everyday life.