Ananya Kumar-Banerjee

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee holds a Bachelor’s in Ethnicity, Race & Migration from Yale, where Ananya was also a Scholar through the Yale Law School's Orville H. Schell Jr. Center in International Human Rights Law. Ananya has an MSt from Oxford in World Literatures in English and has read for a Graduate Diploma in Law at City, University of London, funded by Lincoln’s Inn. Ananya has subject interests in detention and migration, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and developing British and European migration policy. Ananya’s past work has used critical race and political theory to examine developing citizenship regimes in South Asia, the United States, and the UK.

Previously, as a fellow of the Yale Center for Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Ananya co-led a creative writing workshop in a maximum-security American prison during the pandemic. In 2018, Ananya led an innovative felony disenfranchisement initiative for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign for Congress. Most recently, Ananya worked at Detention Action, assisting with the litigation on the UK-Rwanda Removals Policy and leading the organisation’s legislative strategy on the Illegal Migration Act.