Sumiya Khatun Mim is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests include statelessness, kinship and social organization under precarity, refugee identity and belonging, humanitarian governance, localization and accountability, migration politics, and the experiences of Rohingya communities across borders. She is particularly interested in how displaced groups navigate state systems, sustain transnational kinship ties, and build forms of resilience within protracted crises and humanitarian intervention.

Sumiya has held numerous positions across the humanitarian, development, and public health sectors with organizations such as HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh, CARE Bangladesh, Save the Children International, BRAC University’s James P. Grant School of Public Health, BBC Media Action, and Ibis Reproductive Health. Her work has spanned policy advocacy, government liaison, qualitative and mixed-methods research, community engagement, and multi-stakeholder coordination with government bodies, INGOs, UN agencies, and civil society actors.

She is interested in conducting ethnographic fieldwork with Rohingya families and communities in Bangladesh and the United States, focusing on transnational kinship, identity formation, and the ways displaced groups create belonging and resilience across changing political and social landscapes.