Mohammad Sikder

Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University (NSU), Bangladesh. Prior to joining at NSU, he worked as an Associate Professor at the Department of Development Studies, Daffodil International University (DIU) and General Education Department (GED), University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB). He also engaged as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), a research centre which conducts research on refugees, internally displaced persons, stateless people, labour migrants and diaspora communities. He is the author of several books and articles that have been published by reputable international publishers. He had also been involved in a number of studies under the Migration out of Poverty RPC and Development Research Centre (DRC), University of Sussex, UK. Sikder was a recipient of the NTS-Asia Research Fellowship from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Mr. Sikder has over 20 years of empirical research, 10 years of teaching, and 8 years of professional experience as a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Expert with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Bonn, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)/Department for International Development (DFID)-UK, the British Council, the European Union Delegation (EUD), Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), International Labor Organization (ILO), International Organization for Migration (IOM), US Committee for Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), NORC at the University of Chicago and Solidarity Center-Sri Lanka.

Sikder’s research expertise includes internal and international labour migration; modern slavery and labour migration recruitment (OLR) process; returnee migrants' reintegration; remittances, development, dependency and inequality; migration and TVET Skills for employment; forced migration and the situation of the Rohingya (Myanmar) refugees; irregular cross-border migration, human smuggling and trafficking; ready-made garments (RMG), trade Unions and women empowerment; and climate change-induced migration, urban resettlement and livelihood.

Sikder is a guest editor for the Journal of Frontiers in Human Dynamics and an external reviewer for the Journal of Migration and Development, Asian Pacific Migration Journal, Journal of Borderland Studies, Journal of Immigration and Refugee Studies, book reviewer for Palgrave MacMillan, India, and Advisory Editor for Migration Mirror, RMMRU's quarterly newsletter. Sikder has also presented papers at national and international workshops, conferences, and seminars in countries such as Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Spain, Qatar, South Africa, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Switzerland, the Philippines, and the United States. He is a television personality who regularly appears on talk shows to address migration and refugee issues.

Sikder served as President of the Monash University Islamic Society (MUIS) (2011-2012); HUMCASS Representative (2009-2010), and Gippsland Association for Postgraduate Students (GAPS), Monash University, Australia; Co-ordinator, Young Researcher Forum (YRF), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; Member, South Asian Migration Resource Network (SAMReN); Member, Leeds University Alumni, UK; Member, Dhaka University Alumni, Bangladesh; and Member, Rotary Club of Baridhara., Bangladesh.