Research field (4)：
Sociology
, Local studies
, Applied anthropology
, Human geography
Research keywords (5)：
Poverty and Livelihoods
, Anthropology of Development
, Rural Development
, Precarity
, International Migration
Research theme for competitive and other funds (1)：
2020 - 2023 Precarious and Positive Inclusion in Asian Transnational Labour Migration: Multi-sited Research of Nepali Migrant Workers in Japan and Malaysia
Papers (18)：
Ramesh Sunam, Bishnu Pariyar, Krishna K Shrestha. Does affirmative action undermine meritocracy? “Meritocratic inclusion” of the marginalized in Nepal’s bureaucracy. Development Policy Review. 2021
Ramesh Sunam, Krishna K Shrestha. Failing the Most Excluded: A Critical Analysis of Nepal’s Affirmative Action Policy. Contributions to Nepalese Studies. 2019. 46. 2. 283-305
Pariyar S, Volkova L, Sharma RP, Sunam R, Weston CJ. Aboveground carbon of community-managed Chirpine (Pinus roxburghii Sarg.) forests of Nepal based on stand types and geographic aspects. PeerJ. 2019. 7:e6494
Keith Barney, Ramesh Sunam. Beyond rural routes: Gendered migration, agrarian production and forest change in Java: Commentary on Nancy Peluso and Agus Budi Purwanto’s ‘The Remittance Forest: Turning Mobile Labor into Agrarian Capital’. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 2018. 39. 1. 37-40
Ramesh Sunam, Anupama Mahat. [Policy Brief] Addressing Water Pollution from Agriculture in South Asia. 2020
[Policy Blog] The Precariousness of Migrant Workers in Japan amidst COVID-19. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. 2020
Ramesh Sunam. [Policy Brief] Governance and National Implementation of the 2030 Agenda: Lessons from Voluntary National Reviews. UNU-IAS Policy Brief Series. United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. 2019
Ramesh Sunam. [Book review] Review of Dalit in the Nepali Media: Participation and the Content by J. B. Bishwokarma. Himalaya, 34(1): 142-43. 2014
Books (4)：
(Book) Transnational Labour Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal: The Remittance Village
Routledge 2020
[Book chapter] People smuggling in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’. In Coyne, J., Nyst, M. (eds). People smugglers globally
Australian Strategic Policy Institute 2017
[Book chapter] South Asia: Migrant Smuggling Data and Research’, in: McAuliffe, M.L., Laczko, F. (eds.), Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A global review of the emerging evidence base
International Organization for Migration 2016
[Book chapter] The significance of foreign labour migration and land for poverty reduction in Nepal’, in: Heshmati, A., Maasoumi, E., Wan, G. (eds.), Poverty reduction policies and practices in developing Asia.
Springer 2015
Lectures and oral presentations (13)：
South-South Transnational Labour Migration and Precarity
(Mobility and the Future of Work 2019)
The Nexus Between Transnational Labour Migration, Precarity and Urbanisation: The Emergence of Locally Scattered Livelihoods in Rural Nepal
(Migrations: Movement of People, Ideas, and Goods at the Waseda University (Oct. 16-17, 2019). 2019)
Contentious Affirmative Action Policy of Nepal: Reinterpreting Key Narratives
(International Symposium on Politics of Dignity and Social Justice: Voices of Emerging Change Makers in Nepal 2018)
Anthropology of rural migration/outmigration
(8th IUAES World Congress 2018)
Implications of international migration for poverty, land and agriculture in Nepal
(What does migration mean on the home front? Implications for land and social change in Nepal 2017)
2011 - 2015 Australian National University (ANU) Crawford School of Public Policy
Professional career (3)：
PhD (Australian National University, ANU, Australia)
MA (Australian National University, ANU)
BA (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
Work history (4)：
2019/05 - 現在 Waseda University Waseda Institute for Advanced Study Assistant Professor
2016/10 - 2018/10 United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2016/03 - 2016/10 Irregular Migration Research Programme & Red Elephant, Australia Research Fellow
2013/07 - 2016/02 Australian National University (ANU) Crawford School of Public Policy Research & Teaching Associate
Awards (1)：
2021/03 - Waseda University 2020 Waseda Research Award (High-Impact Publication)
Association Membership(s) (5)：
UK Development Studies Association (DSA)
, South Asia Research Institute (SARI)
, Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
, Australian Sociological Association
, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
