Mengia Tschalaer is a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at University of Bristol where she works on a EU-funded project examining the experiences of LGBTQI+ asylum seekers with Muslim background within Germany’s asylum system. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics of knowledge production and human rights, sexualities, race, and religion. She is the author of "Muslim Women's Quest for Justice: Gender, Law, and Activism in India" (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and of various articles and chapters on socio-legal resistance, gender, and Islam.