Hijaab Yahya is an MA candidate at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Their research synthesizes inquiries from sociolegal, anti-colonial, and queer migration scholarship, composing projects that attempt to unsettle colonial-capitalistic narratives on belonging, nation-building, and statal imaginaries. Hijaab is currently completing their MA thesis, which explores the intersections of forced migration and displacement, global rights regimes, and access to health with reference to the experiences of undocumented refugees from Afghanistan in tribal Pakistan.