[1] The founding members of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit are Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, Shahdeen Malik, Sumaiya Khair, and Yasmin Ali Haque.
[7][8][9] In 2015, the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit hosted an intern from the University of Victoria as part of the CAPI's 2015 Crossing Borders Internship Program.
[11] It published a research paper, The Social Cost of Migration on Left Behind Migrants’ Spouses and Children in Bangladesh, in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
[12] In 2021, Tasneem Siddiqui was a panelist on the Climate change and forced migration: a crisis in the making session of the World Forum for Democracy of Council of Europe.
Chowdhury Rafiqul Abrar, executive director of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit, said "We have experienced political unrest, repression, and a lack of personal security in our country.