Dr. Ayar Ata

FFVT fellow

Dr. Ayar Ata was a research fellow for the project “Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Vernetzung und Transfer (FFVT)“. He is hosted at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN). Ayar Ata is a freelance postdoctoral researcher and linguist. He is an active member of the Sustainability Research Group at London South Bank, a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) and served as ExCom member 2018-2020. Now, he is serving as an IASFM-Working Group member in the United Kingdom and a member of the editorial board of the Displaced Voices Journal. His book entitled “I am Kurdish Londoner” is published by Palgrave and is based on his Ph.D. thesis which also includes a section on reflexivity and about his own first-hand refugee experience. He has used autoethnography to be an active voice in his research, and his contribution to the field of forced migration also includes the preparation and translation of ” Your Rights in Research” for all forced migrants which are now available in different languages on IASFM’s website.