Swan Htut

Graduate Student Research Funding | 2023–2024 Academic Year

Chin Refugees in Mizoram

Previous research focuses on refugees in the Global North when most of the worlds refugees live in neighboring countries in the Global South where their political and economic integration is limited. To address this gap, Htut will conduct an ethnography of Chin refugees from Myanmar that fled into Mizoram state, India following the 2021 Myanmar military coup. Although the Indian government has ordered local leaders to not accept Chin refugees, they, along with civil organizations, have accommodated these refugees. Htut will investigate how Chin refugees gain access to resources and identify the key groups that have facilitated their accommodation. 

Swan Htut, Department of Sociology

Swan Ye Htut is a Sociology PhD student at Stanford University with research interests in social movements, migration and race/ethnicity. He has published on post-coup Myanmar digital activism and is conducting a project focused on the Myanmar diaspora in the US. He is a graduate student fellow at the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab as a part of the GeoMatch project and the Qualitative Initiative seeking to better understand refugees' experiences with resettlement. He is also a Graduate Public Service Fellow at the HAAS Center for Public Service where he works with an interdisciplinary team to improve immigrant parents and students' access to English language resources.

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