Sreya Banerjea is a MPhil/PhD candidate from the Gender Studies program in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She is expected to graduate in 2019. She has previously completed her Master of Arts (M.A) from York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research is situated in the areas of postcolonial studies; transnational studies; social anthropology; and feminist legal studies, with particular interest in gender and sexual politics in South Asia and in the Indian diaspora; identity, feminist epistemology, migration, marriage, law/culture/society and rights. Sreya has volunteered in several gender-based organizations as a graduate student. She is currently pursuing her fieldwork and has recently joined Empower People's network to gain a better insight on the issue of importing and exporting of brides cross-regionally within India - her current thesis project. For a detailed description of this project, please see the following profile: https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff117351.php
