Kamal Sadiq

Kamal Sadiq (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is an associate professor of political science and Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS) at the University of California, Irvine. He researches migration, citizenship and security processes, institutions, and policies across the Global South, specifically in South Asia (India, Bangladesh, and Nepal) and South-East Asia (Malaysia and Indonesia).

Kamal is the author of Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries (Oxford, 2009), co-editor of Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy (Oxford, 2020) and his articles appear in European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, PS: Political Science & Politics, the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship, and select edited books.

Kamal has chaired the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies (ENMISA) section of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). Kamal serves on the editorial board of the journal Citizenship Studies and the advisory board of the journal Migration Politics. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).