Dr Ayushman Bhagat
Lecturer in Political Geography

Membership and affiliation

Advisory Board Member, After Exploitation [2024-25]

Member of Human Trafficking Research Network (HTRN).

Member of the Decolonising Geography educators’ group in the UK.

Associate Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), UK.

Member, the American Association of Geographers, USA

Member, Britain Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)

Scholar In Residence at Georgetown University, Qatar. (2022-2023)

Fellow, TraffLab research group, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Israel. (2020-2022)

Member of the Solidarity Against No Borders (SKNB) group, Merseyside branch (2021-23).

Member of ESRC Strategic Network on “Unacceptable Forms of Work: Global Dialogue/Local Innovation”, a global impact-oriented network of researchers and policy-makers interested ineffective regulation of low-waged and insecure work (2017-2020).

Media interests

The Politics of Anti- Slavery/ Trafficking/Migration; Post-Deportation Lives; Nepal - Middle East Migration Corridor

Media Coverage: 

• (2026) How Nepal’s Migration Ban Strips Women of Protection in Death | National Policy Forum: https://www.nationalpolicyforum.com/posts/how-nepals-migration-ban-strips-women-of-protection-in-death/
• (2026) Banned to Death: The Politics of Protection in Nepal's Migration Governance | New Spotlight Magazine: https://www.spotlightnepal.com/2026/07/26/banned-death-politics-protection-nepals-migration-governance/
• (2025) राष्ट्रिय श्रम तथा रोजगार सम्मेलन, २०८१ - National Labor and Employment Conference | Kantipur LIVE [5:05 – 15:50]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8CyuNPEpqI
• (2025) Nepal’s migration ban costing women their lives. | Freedom United. https://www.freedomunited.org/news/nepal-migration-ban-causing-deaths/
• (2025) खाडीमा महिला कामदारले भोगेका पीडामा सरकार मौन, दर्दनाक घटनाले के संकेत गर्दैछ ? | News24 Nepal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozlaxb4pOWI
• (2025) महिला कामदार आर्थिक र विभेदका कारण विदेशिन वाध्य,,सरकार र कुटनीतिक निकायलाई गम्भीर प्रश्न । LIVE News24 Nepal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYPtpaK03V0
• (2025) Banned, blamed, and buried: How Nepal fails its female migrant workers. | Annapurna Express: https://theannapurnaexpress.com/story/56988/
• (2025) प्रतिबन्धले घरेलु श्रमिकको मृत्युलाई अदृश्य बनाइदियो : प्रतिवेदन; https://ekantipur.com/news/2025/08/04/ban-made-domestic-worker-deaths-invisible-report-27-48.html
• (2025) Activists call for lifting ban on women traveling as domestic workers | Rising Nepal: https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/66223
• (2025) सुरक्षित र वैधानिक आप्रवासन नीतिको विस्तारका लागि सुझाव https://purwanchaldaily.com/230897/
• (2025) स्याहारमूलक काम : आर्थिक सशक्तीकरण कि अन्याय ? https://ekantipur.com/opinion/2025/07/08/care-work-economic-empowerment-or-injustice-58-04.html
• (2025) वैदेशिक रोजगारको विषयमा नीतिगत बहस र अभियानका लागि नयाँ सञ्जाल ‘मञ्जरी’ सुरु https://deshparadesh.com/2025/07/16452/
• (2025) रोजगार सम्मेलनको १६ बुँदे घोषणापत्र आन्तरिक रोजगारी प्रवर्द्धन दशक कार्यान्वयनको प्रतिबद्धता https://ekantipur.com/business/2025/03/12/commitment-to-the-implementation-of-the-16-point-declaration-of-the-employment-conference-on-the-decade-of-internal-employment-promotion-30-58.html
• (2025) श्रम सम्झौताको प्रभावकारी कार्यान्वयन नहुँदा श्रमिकहरू ठगिए. https://ekantipur.com/news/2025/03/11/due-to-the-lack-of-effective-implementation-of-the-labor-agreement-the-workers-were-cheated-10-01.html
• (2025) १६ बुँदे घोषणापत्र जारी https://rajdhani.com.np/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Fagun-28.pdf
• (2025) श्रम सम्झौताको प्रभावकारी कार्यान्वयन आवश्यक. https://gorkhapatraonline.com/news/146729
• (2025) ‘श्रम सम्झौताको प्रभावकारी कार्यान्वयन आवश्यक’ https://nepalekhabar.com/2025/03/115316
• (2025) श्रम सम्झौतालाई प्रभावकारी रूपमा कार्यान्वयन गर्न नसक्दा नेपाली श्रमिक अधिकारप्राप्तिबाट वञ्चित: https://www.kolhabinews.com/?p=44337
• (2025) वैदेशिक रोजगारीमा रहेका नेपाली अधिकार प्राप्तिबाट वञ्चित भएको सरोकारवालाको भनाइ: https://nepalir.com/वैदेशिक-रोजगारीमा-रहेका/
• (2024) Safer migration for women. Nepali times.https://nepalitimes.com/editorial/safer-migration-for-women
• (2022) Nepal Conversation Podcast series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exbZu44kpDo.
• (2022) The Himalayan “Migration ban on women counterproductive” https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/migration-ban-on-women-counterproductive?fbclid=IwAR1FYt2hhY5kenLxAfU1y1RSFDK3E4bneeSd5SfhLX8u8fcY01lW0bLKmaE.
• (2022) Bizness news “Policy suggestions to adopt measures to remove migration bans on migrant domestic workers of Nepal”: https://biznessnews.com/posts/7473?fbclid=IwAR35ijtcOSolitGPBls_ROAkqGXRz4LU_BgaGoYPu_jNv0OlEKI7Ui7srvI.