Department of Politics and International Studies
Froilan Malit Jr
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- Qualifications
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MSt International Relations (with Distinction), University of Cambridge
MSc Migration Studies, University of Oxford
BSc Industrial and Labor Relations - Honors Program (with honors), Cornell University - Email address
- 733734@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Multilateral Migration Diplomacy in the Global South
- Internal Supervisors
- Professor Fiona B Adamson, Professor Ralf Emmers & Dr Nicholas Rush Smith
Biography
Froilan Malit Jr. is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London, where his UBEL-DTP ESRC-funded dissertation broadly examines multilateral migration diplomacy in South-South migration contexts, with particular focus on the Asia-Gulf corridor.
His academic research sits at the intersection of international relations, comparative politics, comparative regional studies, and migration governance, bringing both scholarly rigor and extensive policy experience to questions about how states and multilateral institutions negotiate labor migration in the Global South. Malit is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Dubai and a Fellow at the Gulf Labor Markets and Migration programme of the Gulf Research Center.
He also serves as a regional committee member of the ILO Regional Office for Arab States' Migration Advisory Group, and as Managing Director of Rights Corridor, a digital platform dedicated to Asia-Gulf migration analysis and advocacy. For over a decade, Malit has worked as a migration policy consultant across the Asia-Gulf region, advising organizations including the ILO, IOM, the World Bank, the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Investment Migration Council, among other international think tanks, academic institutions, and migrant civil society organizations.
He is currently a research collaborator on a British Academy project led by Professor Fiona Adamson (PI) and Professor Jean Franco (Co-PI), Migration Think Tanks in the Global South: The Global Politics of Knowledge Production and Its Impact on Evidence-Informed Policymaking in the Asia-Middle East Migration Corridor. Malit's scholarly work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals including Foreign Policy Analysis, Middle East Critique, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Third World Quarterly, Global Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Global Labor Journal, Middle East Critique, the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, and International Migration, Arabian Humanities, Migration Letters, and among others.
He has authored more than 50 academic and public policy publications and regularly contributes migration policy commentary to international outlets, including the New York Times and major Gulf-based newspapers. His research has been presented at over 50 conferences and universities across the world, including at the International Studies Association (ISA), the British International Studies Association (BISA), the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), and the Gulf Research Center (GRC).
Malit holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Cambridge, and a postgraduate migration certificate from the European University Institute. His doctoral project has been recognized with the UBEL DTP – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentship and a European Research Council (ERC) award.
Research interests
- Migration Diplomacy
- Multilateralism Norms
- International Labor Migration
- Global South
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