Professor Chaumtoli Huq has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to study how Bangladeshi immigrants in Spain organize for their rights. Her research will examine the surge in Bangladeshi migration to Spain amid declining opportunities in their home country and increasingly restrictive immigration policies across Europe.
Based at the Universidad de Málaga from January to May 2023, Professor Huq will conduct ethnographic research on Valiente Bangla (Brave Bangla), a Madrid-based organization that successfully mobilized to prevent the deportation of 34 Bangladeshi nationals. The study will document how new immigrant communities overcome linguistic and cultural barriers to advocate for their fundamental rights.
“This research builds on my career-long focus on workers’ rights and social movements,” said Professor Huq, who previously served as General Counsel for Litigation at the NYC Office of the Public Advocate and founded Law@theMargins, a nonprofit connecting law and social justice. “Understanding how immigrant communities organize across borders is crucial as global migration patterns shift.”
An expert in labor and employment law, Professor Huq’s scholarship includes extensive work on workers’ rights in Bangladesh’s garment industry. At CUNY Law, she teaches in the areas of labor and employment law and human rights, bringing her research and advocacy experience into the classroom.