Publications

  Advancing Children’s Geographies through ‘Grey Areas’ of Age and Childhood. Geography Compass, 15(8), e12584, (2021). 

 Embodied Circular Migration: Lived Experiences of Education and Work of Nepalese Children and Youth.  Journal of Youth  Studies, 25(4), 470-486, (2021).

 Connecting Crises: Young People in Nepal Reflecting on Life Course Transitions and Trajectories During Times of Uncertainty.  Social Sciences, 10(11), 439, (2021). Special Issue: Crisis, Im/mobilities and Young Life Trajectories. Editors: Giorgia Dona  & Angela Veale. 

 From the Peaks and Back: Mapping the Emotions of Trans-Himalayan Children Education Migration Journeys in Kathmandu,  Nepal. Children's Geographies, 16(6), 616-627. Special Issue: Young People and the Emotions of Migration. Editors: Kabita Chakraborty & Shanti Thambiah.

 Navigating Civil War through Youth Migration, Education, and Family Separation. With Jennifer Hyndman, Refuge, 31, 75, (2015). 

 Reverse Capital: South Asian Migrants in Irregular Migration Contexts. In Ajaya Sahoo (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations (Vol. 1, pp. 153–163). Routledge. (2023). 

 Children’s Rights and Adult Agendas: Encounters of  Young  Displaced Migrants with Organizations in Nepal. With Kabita Chakraborty, in Gul Inanç & Themba Lewis (eds.), Forced Displacement and NGOs in Asia and the Pacific (vol. 1, pp. 105–119). Routledge. (2022).

COVID-19 Brings Students Back to Himalayan Villages with Public Health Messages. The Conversation. (25/06/2020).

 1 Family, 2 Countries, 3 Borders: Expressing Transnational Love in Contested Migration. Routed Magazine, Special Issue, 'Love, Family, and Friendship    Across Borders’, vol. 8. (14/02/2020).

Blazek, Matej, Khan A. A. & Andal, G. Aireen (Editors). (Special Issue proposal accepted on (12/06/2024).   Researching Children and Young People’s Emotional Geographies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Methods and Practices. Emotion, Space and Society.

Andal, G. A., Blazek, M. & Khan A. A. (Editors). (Special Issue proposal accepted on 10/31/2024). “Small Feelings” and the Geographies of Children and Young People: Plural Entanglements of Intimacy, Familiality and Place. Social and Cultural Geography.

Khan, A. A., Blazek, M. & Andal, G. A. (Editors). (Special Issue proposal accepted on 11/25/2024). Emotional Geographies of Children and Young People’s Citizenship. Political Geography.

 “Layered Citizenship Challenges”: Citizenship Certificate Acquisition Hurdles of Himalayan Young People in Nepal. This paper’s abstract was accepted for the Special Issue in Political Geography. [Under Review]

‘Homesick but also sick of home, oh what feelings when alone…’: Micro-Emotions of Young Migrants’ Poetic Expressions. This paper’s abstract was accepted for the Special Issue in Emotion, Space and Society. [Under Review]

The START SMART Framework: Strengths, Challenges and Emotional Strategies Towards Increased Collaboration with Himalayan Youth Co-researchers. This paper’s abstract was accepted for the Special Issue in  Social and Cultural Geography. 

Youth Geographies: International Labour Mobilities. In James Esson & Matej Blazek (eds.), The Handbook of Youth Geographies.  De Gruyter. (Chapter to be submitted on 1/1/2026).

Artistic Memoirs of Displaced Migrants During Political Reforms in Global Contexts. In Rajendra Baikady;  Varshini  Nadesan; Jaroslaw Przeperski; Rezaul M. Islam; Sajid M. Sajid & Jianguo Gao (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter to be submitted on 20/12/2025). 

 Situating and Deconstructing Global Childhood(s) through a Geopolitical Approach. In Rajendra Baikady et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan.  (Chapter to be submitted on 20/12/2025).

Positioning Ancient Indigenous Newari Cultural and Religious Experiences through Blogging and Vlogging. In  Rajendra Baikady et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter to be submitted on 20/12/2025).

 Advancing Education-Work Dynamics and Life Course Transitions (LCTs) of Himalayan Young People through Participatory Action Research (PAR). Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto, Canada. (2024). 

 From the Peaks and Back: Exploring the Educational Journeys of Trans-Himalayan Students in Kathmandu, Nepal. Master's Thesis, York University, Canada. (2015). 

Journal of Youth Studies (Reviewed two manuscripts)  🔗

Childhood  🔗

 Children & Society  🔗

 Journal of Human Security  🔗

Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees 🔗

Social Inclusion 🔗

 South Asian Diaspora 🔗

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 🔗

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research  🔗