About
Dr Ezenwa Olumba
Critical migration & conflict scholar
Ezenwa is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Before joining Aston in 2025, he earned his PhD in Politics and an MSc in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. He previously earned a BSc in International Relations at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kleve, Germany.
His interdisciplinary research spans conflict studies, migration studies and emerging military technologies. Focusing primarily on the Global South, he examines how violence, memory, culture, political power and technology shape people’s decisions and abilities to move or remain, their attachments to place, and their experiences of exclusion, displacement and belonging.
His original contributions include cognitive immobility, aerial colonialism and the Resilience–Accessibility Framework.
