Carrie Perkins is a sociocultural anthropologist with a specialization in forced migration and refugee studies. Her research has focused on human rights, refugee policy and sustainable urban infrastructure in refugee camp design. Her current research explores refugee rights in Thailand and the use of multi-modal ethnography in constructing narratives of migration. Carrie has conducted research in refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border and in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as with resettled refugees in the U.S. and U.K.. She was previously a visiting study fellow at the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre and holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University.
