Graduate Teaching Fellow
Liverpool Law School
Biography
Anoshay holds LLB (Hons) & LLM (with Merit) from the University of London with a specialisation in Law and Development and has over twelve years of experience in academic and policy research focussing on constitutionalism and legal history, international human rights law, environmental justice, neoliberalism, and other thematic areas within the South Asian region. She has recently provided research support for a book manuscript focusing on ethnic federalism, civil-military relations and neoliberalism and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor in Pakistan. Her recent publication focusses on the notions of citizenship laws, statelessness, and the plight of Afghan refugees, published in ‘Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship’ (Manchester University Press, 2021). She has also co-authored the study on “Fair Representation in Justice Sector” and assisted with implementing trainings to over a 100 female law students and lawyers under this project with the Women in Law Initiative Pakistan (with support from the United States Institute of Peace). She has experience in implementing and coordinating projects focusing on Refugee Law, Business and Human Rights, and more recently the rights of the Child in Pakistan with support from the American Bar Association-Rule of Law Initiative and UNHCR Pakistan. Anoshay also serves as an advisory member with the Lahore Education and Research Network (LEARN).
Research
Anoshay’s previous work experience with the UNHCR Pakistan has provided direct insight into the legal complexities and subsequent subversion of rights that impacts Afghan refugees in Pakistan. She has also provided input towards the preparation of a Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on Stateless Communities in Pakistan (published by Musawi Pakistan with support from the Covid-19 Emergency Support Forum and the Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion). Her research will be an enquiry into the notions of citizenship, the right to nationality and how it operates as an instrument for the exercise of human rights for stateless populations within international human rights law.
Research Cluster
International Law and Human Rights Unit
Thesis title
Statelessness, Citizenship, and the Right to Nationality: A Critical Examination of the Rightlessness of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan under International Human Rights and Domestic Law.
Supervisors
Publications
Fazal, Anoshay. "A regional politics of foreignness and Pakistan’s Afghan refugees." In Statelessness, governance, and the problem of citizenship, pp. 49-60. Manchester University Press, 2021.