Mr. Adarsh Ciril

Adarsh Ciril is an eager learner of political philosophy, migration studies, and critical thinking. His other interests include documenting tales of local history and reading fiction. Graduated in Literature and obtaining a Masters in International Relations and Politics, Adarsh assisted as a research intern at the Nelson Mandela for Afro-Asian Studies for a short period, before enrolling for this PhD program. After completing his Masters thesis on applying the political theory of Bare Life and the State of  Exception in the handling of the Covid 19 pandemic by the governments, his current academic pursuit for PhD is on researching the various aspects on why the youngsters of Kerala are choosing to find any means possible to find a way out of this country.

PhD Title: Drivers Of International Student Migration From Kerala: Inter Sectional Readings On  Dual Identity.

This work is aiming to study the reasons for the recent surge in the number of students leaving to western countries for education. This outflow of youngsters is also marked by securing huge sums of loans from the home country, and working maximum hours in various part time jobs to pay back these debts in the host countries, making the education itself a subsidiary in the process of migration and their lives as an invisible laborer in host country is often overlooked. As debates on the effects of these huge exodus of youngsters are being raised in the social space in recent times, this research hopes to be a timely and scholastic work on the analysis of this phenomenon.