Centre for South Asian Studies

Profile

Nichola Khan works at the interface of migration, violence, and mental/health in conflict, post-conflict, and 'post'colonial societies: specifically, using ethnography to research urban violence among Pakistan’s Urdu-speaking migrant communities in the megacity of Karachi, transnational refugee migration from Afghanistan, and more recently asylum seekers receiving hospital-based medical and psychiatric care in Paris. She is interested in developing interdisciplinary theory‑ using philosophical, existential, anthropological and literary approaches- to think about challenges related to migration and mobility, colonial geneaologies in everyday life, and the interiority of violence.