is the research lead at the Centre for Indian Migrant Studies (CIMS), an organization that, for the past 20 years, has stood for protecting migrant rights. He has written about and researched international labour migration, migration governance, decentralization, political economy of migration, and rights of migrant workers since 2012. He is also pursuing a PhD at the Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India. He associates with various organizations such as the Internatioanl Labour Organization, International Organization for Migration, and the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) as a research consultant. By accepting one of the policy suggestions from one of his research papers, the Kerala Government, a subnational government in India, has created an assembly for the inclusive participation of migrants in policy making.