Dr Divya Balan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at FLAME University, Pune, India. She teaches courses on Migration and Diaspora, and Forced Migration, Refugees and Human Security in FLAME. Dr Divya has authored several timely opinion pieces for national and regional newspapers and magazines, including for the New Indian Express, the Wire, Times of India, Telangana Today and Truecopy Think on issues related to international, internal and forced migration, migration governance, Indian diaspora, migrant transnationalism and identity, and global Malayalees. She is also the author of monographs, articles in research journals, and chapters in edited books on themes related to migration and refugees.