Monish Bhatia is a Lecturer in Criminology at the Abertay University. He teaches in the areas of 'race', racism and immigration. Monish is currently doing a self-funded project on the after-math of deportation and capturing narratives of those who are forcefully removed from the UK. Previously, he has done a Carnegie Trust funded project on destitution and drug use amongst asylum seekers, and his Doctoral Thesis focused on the impact of policies and procedures on asylum seekers and 'illegal' migrants in the UK