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Aziz Rahman has long been engaged in interdisciplinary research, teaching and community development work. He earned his doctoral degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba (UM), a master’s degree in Criminology from the University of Toronto, a master’s degree in Regional Development Planning jointly from the University of Dortmund, Germany, and the University of the Philippines Diliman, and a master’s degree and an undergraduate honours degree in Sociology from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. Aziz has taught sociology, criminology, and migration and displacement courses at the Universities of Winnipeg and Manitoba. He has taught as a faculty member in Bangladeshi universities for over ten years. Aziz is the recipient of a number of scholarships including the SSHRC Joseph Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship. His PhD thesis explored refugee economic integration in Canada. Aziz’s SSHRC-funded postdoctoral research focus is on refugee entrepreneurship in Canada, with the goal to identify to policymakers the factors affecting the successful labor market integration of resettled refugees in Canada. Aziz has published books, peer reviewed articles and presented research papers at conferences on various topics including refugee integration issues, public views of crime and policing, Islamist terrorism, ethnic violence, colonialism, hate crime and gig workers’ experiences. Aziz established two non-profit organizations based in Bangladesh to improve the quality of life of underprivileged population groups through community development projects, training, research, and advocacy. Aziz is an alumnus of the inaugural cohort of the President Student Leadership Program (PSLP) at UM. He is currently serving on the Board of Winnipeg Immigrant Partnership advisory table on Immigration and Indigenous Peoples, the Canadian Association of Refugees and Forced Migration Studies, the Institute of Cultural Affairs Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Criminological Association.

Afzalur Rahman teaches International Relations at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh Since July 2017. He stood first in both undergraduate and graduate programs of International Relations from the University of Chittagong respectively in 2012 and 2013. He did an MS thesis on “Irregular Migration from Bangladesh To Malaysia: Causes and Consequences”. His research interest includes irregular migration, trafficking, drug smugglings, refugees, geopolitics, international order, and international relations theories. He has presented recently two papers on Irregular Migration of Bangladeshis and Rohingyas to Malaysia at the 1st International Symposium on Migration and Diaspora (ISMD-2019) organized by the University of Malaya and another at the Migration Conference-2020 hosted by South East European University, North Macedonia.

I am Full Professor for Social Intervention and Transformation at Bertha von Suttner Private University (St. Pölten, Austria), a position I've held since 2021.
With a background rooted in social pedagogy and social work, my research, teaching, and publications span a wide array of topics including child and youth care, social support and intervention, addressing social exclusion, navigating transitions in the life course, regional development and networks, mobilities, refugee issues, social policy, citizenship, democracy, transnationalism, migration, and agency.
I am deeply committed to bridging the gap between theory and practice, advocating for social justice, and empowering individuals and communities through education, research, and collaborative initiatives.

I have earned Ph.D. in Sociology and the area of doctoral research is 'Youth in Informal Sector'. My research and teaching areas is Internal Labour Migration in India

PhD in Visual Sociology and MA in Social Research, Goldsmiths, University of London
Academic researcher in Centro de Ciencias Sociales y Juventud (CISJU), Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez (Chile)
Adjunt researcher Centre for social conflict and cohesion studies (COES, Chile)

My research interests lie in how migration and processes of social categorization and stratification connect. In my PhD project I explored this nexus by studying the care work market in Spain and its connection to Bolivian transnational migration, and I am now focusing on how values and norms are negotiated and circulated within the migration and 'integration' field in Sweden. I am a social anthropologist by training and work mostly ethnographically, with participant observation and interviews.