Adeline Chacko
MSc Student
Adeline Chacko is an MSc candidate in Sociology at St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Originally from India and most recently based in Toronto, Canada, her research sits at the intersection of migration policy, educational access, and belonging in the Global North.
Her undergraduate thesis interrogates how immigration frameworks construct international students as economically necessary yet permanently temporary, examining the gap between institutional inclusion and lived exclusion, and what it means to inhabit a legal status that permits presence while foreclosing permanence.
Adeline is also the founder of She Rising, a non-profit organisation working toward quality education and gender equality across Canada and India. Her broader intellectual interests span migration, race, gender, and the politics of educational access.
Research Interests: Migration policy and international student mobility; immigration frameworks and the construction of temporary status; belonging, exclusion, and the politics of educational access in the Global North; institutional ethnography and the sociology of documents; race, gender, and migration
Previous Education: BA Sociology, York University, Toronto