{"id":99,"date":"2014-08-05T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=99"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:46","slug":"ajay-parasram","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/people\/ajay-parasram\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajay Parasram"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.academia.edu\/AjayParasram\">Ajay Parasram<\/a> is a doctoral candidate in the department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University. Alongside these roles, he is a multigenerational and trans-national by-product of British colonization, which informs his research. He was a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow (2012 \u2013 2014), and a Post Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2008 \u2013 2010) working on citizenship policy, the Canadian Diaspora, and security policy. Ajay\u2019s current work concerns the colonial constitution of modern nation-states and the various movements of people, resources, and worldviews associated with these migrations in the last two hundred years. He sits on the board of directors for the Ottawa based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworlddialogue.org\/\">One World Dialogue<\/a>, and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leveller.ca\/\">The Leveller<\/a> <\/i>newspaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Ajay","cu_people_last_name":"Parasram","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[5],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-99","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-graduate-students"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"ajay.parasram@gmail.com","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/99\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}