Swan Htut

Swan Ye Htut (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Sociology department. His research interests are broadly focused on immigrants’ ethnic and racial identification, and refugee accommodation in the US and India. His work centers the knowledge of immigrants and refugees, particularly those from Myanmar. He is writing a paper on how immigrants from Myanmar negotiate their ethnic identities with national and racial identities. Swan is also a Graduate Research Fellow at the Immigration Policy Lab where he conducts interviews with refugees in the US to understand how refugees conceptualize self-sufficiency vis-a-vis US resettlement policy. He served as a Graduate Public Service fellow at the HAAS Center where he worked with an interdisciplinary team to improve English language services for immigrant families and their children. Currently, he is working with community organizations in the US and India to assess the needs of Chin refugees from Myanmar residing in India and advocate for these communities internationally. This work involved ethnographic fieldwork and community-engagement which he plans to sustain through the help of RAISE. Prior to Stanford, Swan co-published research on digital activism in post-military coup Myanmar and received a BA in Sociology and Global Studies at UCLA.