Devashish Basnet 美国

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Devashish Basnet
Election Year: 2022

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar Elect

Rhodes Identifier: New York 2022

Devashish Basnet
Biography
Devashish Basnet is a senior at the City University of New York, Hunter College, studying Political Science, Public Policy, Asian American Studies, and Music. He has worked extensively on domestic and international migration issues at think tanks, NGOs, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and community organizations – working directly alongside impacted immigrant communities. Devashish has also worked as a Nepali and Spanish interpreter for families held in detention centers around the United States. He hopes to further make an impact at the nexus of state fragility and forced displacement through implementing creative solutions to complex challenges that exist when evaluating systems of human mobility. His senior honors thesis is on unaccompanied minors and the criminalization of immigration in the United States. He currently serves as President of Hunter College’s student government where he works to uplift first-generation college and undocumented students. As a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow, he is currently conducting ethnographic research on the cultural memory of his people, New York City’s Himalayan Sherpas. In his free time, he enjoys cooking meals with friends, going to concerts, and exploring new places. At Oxford, he aims to pursue an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and a Master’s in Public Policy. He is eager to meet his cohort and contribute to the larger Rhodes community.




Devashish Basnet
选举年份: 2022年

选举选区。美国

学者身份。当选学者

罗德标识符。纽约2022年

Devashish Basnet
个人简介
Devashish Basnet是纽约市立大学亨特学院的高年级学生，学习政治学、公共政策、亚美研究和音乐。他曾在智囊团、非政府组织、非营利组织、宣传团体和社区组织广泛从事国内和国际移民问题的工作，直接与受影响的移民社区一起工作。德瓦什还曾为被关押在美国各地拘留中心的家庭担任尼泊尔语和西班牙语的翻译。他希望通过实施创造性的解决方案来应对评估人口流动系统时存在的复杂挑战，从而在国家脆弱性和被迫流离失所的关系上进一步发挥影响。他的高级荣誉论文是关于无人陪伴的未成年人和美国的移民犯罪化问题。他目前担任亨特学院学生会主席，致力于提升第一代大学生和无证学生。作为梅隆公共人文研究员，他目前正在对他的民族--纽约市的喜马拉雅夏尔巴人的文化记忆进行人种学研究。在空闲时间，他喜欢和朋友一起做饭，去听音乐会，并探索新的地方。在牛津大学，他的目标是攻读难民和强迫移民研究的硕士学位和公共政策的硕士课程。他渴望与他的同班同学见面，并为更大的罗兹社区做出贡献。