Muhammad Atcha

Muhammad is a second year DPhil candidate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, under the supervision of Professor Fernanda Pirie. Through a multi sited ethnography, Muhammad traces the migration journey of Rohingya refugees from Burma/Myanmar to the refugee camps in Bangladesh, and finally to North America upon their resettlement. He explores the complex webs of power relations and norms, alongside the reproduction of Rohingya village 'structures', to understand how disputes are resolved amidst being displaced and 'embedded' within the institutionalized world of refugee camps, humanitarian organizations, and the State. 

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, along with a minor in Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.

Muhammad has 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.