This year's Mariella Carrino grant - In memoriam has been awarded to KM Rakibul Islam, who presented a proposal on “Beyond Borders, Beneath Roofs: Sociolegal Conflict, Housing Rights, and Migrant Precarity in Portuguese Agricultural Regions”.
Rakibul is a PhD candidate at the Universidade de Coimbra, and his work sits at the intersection of sociolegal studies, migration governance, housing crisis, and human rights, with a regional focus on South Asian migrant communities in Southern Europe. He is currently based in Moita, Setúbal, Portugal.