Kiran Meisan Banerjee

Commission Member

Kiran Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan.

Before joining the University of Saskatchewan, Banerjee was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of International and Public Affairs and Research Scholar at the Global Policy Initiative, Columbia University. Banerjee holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he concentrated in the fields of political theory and international relations. He received an MA degree in Social Sciences and BA degree in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2006.

Banerjee's current research focuses on the role of international institutions and domestic political actors in responding to forced migration as well as with mapping out tensions between discourses of national sovereignty and human rights as manifest in contemporary conceptions of democratic legitimacy, in particular as they relate to issues raised by immigration and the position of refugees. At present, Banerjee am working on exploring the relationship of citizenship, human rights, and territoriality, in the context of contemporary democratic theory. His broader research interests include the history of political thought, political philosophy and legal theory.

Read Professor Bannerjee's commentary of the Model International Mobility Convention published in a Special Issue of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law on January of 2018: "Rethinking the Global Governance of International Protection."

Publications

Featured Publication

Rethinking the Global Governance of International Protection

Kiran Banerjee