Khan, Rashid Sohail

Rashid Sohail Khan is a PhD Fellow at Ghent University and at UNU-CRIS within the Migration and Social Policy Cluster. His research aims to assess the welfare of families left behind due to parental migration in the context of Pakistan. As a developing country, Pakistan is vulnerable to climate change, which causes many people to migrate within and outside the country. Such migrations and their impacts have been largely understudied in Pakistan.

Rashid Sohail Khan holds a Master's degree in Economics. He primarily relies on quantitative methods and possesses a solid theoretical background in Development Economics. Currently, he is conducting research under the supervision of Professor Ilse Ruyssen on the migration of individuals within and outside Pakistan and its impact on child labor, utilizing secondary data regularly collected by the Government of Pakistan at both regional and national levels. Additionally, he is exploring the repercussions of floods in Pakistan, including displacement and immobility, on social networks, community ties, and overall well-being.

Before embarking on his PhD journey, Rashid Sohail Khan held positions as a Research Assistant in Economics and later as Deputy Director of Quality Assurance at a public sector university in Pakistan and was a research intern at UNU-CRIS.