Muhammad Atcha

Muhammad is a second year DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law.

His doctoral research is supervised by Professor Fernanda Pirie and involves a multi sited ethnography in the Rohingya refugee camps and across diasporic communities in North America.

Prior to Oxford, Muhammad graduated with an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and an MA in Human Rights from University College London. He completed an Honours B.A with a double major in Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies, and History, with a minor in Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

Muhammad has research experience working with migrants and refugees from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with a particular focus on migration oral histories, human rights, transitional justice, and documentary practices.  

His research interests include refugees and borders; gender and migration; dispute resolution; legal consciousness; norm pluralism; transnationalism; and ethnography of the state.