Alin Kadfak

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I am avaliable to supervise master students who are interested working on the topics of our current projects (see below). We are also looking for internship. Please contact me if you are looking to engage with vibrant research environment! 

working on the two major sustainability challenges of global fisheries governance:

1) How to ensure seafood products are ‘green’?

2) How to ensure they are ‘ethical’?

push to expand the research frontier on ‘labour in fisheries’ and ‘global fisheries policy and supply chains’ and make impacts in wider societies. We plan to explore the relations between labour precarity and the working conditions of vulnerable workers on the one hand, and supply seafood for high-income consumers in wealthy countries on the other hand. We will do so by analyzing supply chains, ecologies, livelihoods, and labour in producing so-called trash fish in mainland Southeast Asia.

PhD courses: 

• Qualitative methodology and research design, SLU
• Rural Development in the Global South, SLU
• Qualitative Research Methods in Social Science (วิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพในทางสังคมศาสตร์), The Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Master degree courses (at SLU):

• International rural development
• Natural resource governance
• Lokala perspektiv
• Rurality livelihood and gender
• Global food system

PhD student supervision:

Toàn Đinh: Ilicity and global supply chains: The case of trash fish

Master student supervision: 

Amanda Viberg: Governing herring in Baltic Sea (ongoing)

Mohammad Abdullah-al Zubair: Wind Energy in Bangladesh (ongoing)

Sultana Yasmin Khan: Reforestation projects at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh (ongoing)

2024, Ella Ihre: Unraveling the Second-Hand Clothing Industry (complete)

2024, Erica Karlsson: EU Due Diligence in Fisheries (complete)

2020, Anton Möller: Vietnam and EU IUU yellow card (complete)

2020, Mónica García Aguilar: Waste management in Chia, Colombia (complete)

Bachelore student supervision: 

Nicole Jönsson: Legal gaps of fishmeal & fish oil (ongoing)

The last 10 publications, the rest please see Google Scholar or Research Gate 

Kadfak, A., Hanh, T. T. H., & Widengård, M. (2025). The impact of state-led traceability on fisheries sustainability. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 27(2), 95-107.

Kadfak, A., Marschke, M., & Hanh, T. T. H. 2025. From extraction to surveillance: re-territorialisation of vietnam’s ocean frontier through fisheries reforms. Maritime Studies, 24(1), 16.

Kadfak, A. 2024. The Labor Governance Frontier in Fisheries: A Critical Review and Future Outlook. Society & Natural Resources. Open Access

Kadfak, A. 2024. Labour in Fisheries Through Migration Studies: Burmese Fish Worker Regularisation and Agency in the Thai Fishing Industry. Geopolitics. Open Access.

Wilhelm, M., Bhakoo, V., Soundararajan, V., Crane, A., & Kadfak, A. 2023. Beyond compliance-based governance: The role of social intermediaries in mitigating forced labor in global supply chains. Production and Operations Management.

Kadfak, A., Barclay, K., & Song, A. M. 2023. EU Trade-Related Measures against Illegal Fishing Policy Diffusion and Effectiveness in Thailand and Australia. Book series: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability (open access).

Kadfak, A., Wilhelm, M., & Oskarsson, P. 2023. Thai Labour NGOs during the ‘Modern Slavery’Reforms: NGO Transitions in a Post‐aid World. Development and Change. 

Kadfak, A & Widengård, M. 2022. From fish to fishworker traceability in Thai fisheries reform. Env Planning E

Kadfak, A & Antonova, A. 2021. Sustainable networks?: Modes of governance in the EU’s external fisheries policy relations under the IUU Regulation in Thailand and the SFPA with Senegal. Marine Policy

Kadfak, A & Linke, S. 2021. Labour implications of the EU’s illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing policy in Thailand. Marine Policy.

Marschke, M., Vandergeest, P., Havice, E., Kadfak, A., Duker, P., Isopescu, I., & MacDonnell, M. 2020. COVID-19, instability and migrant fish workers in Asia, Maritime Studies.