Divya Balan is an Assistant Professor and the Area Chair of International Studies at FLAME University, Pune, with a doctorate in European Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Divya has also served as an International Visiting Fellow at the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland in 2018. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Migration and Development (IIMAD) in Kerala and the Joint Secretary of the Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) in New Delhi. She consults on migration policy for the UN-IOM and various government and civil society organisations in India. Her research specialises in migration studies, particularly focusing on the India-Gulf corridor and the global Indian diaspora.