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Portrait of Parvati Raghuram

Parvati Raghuram

Professor of Geography and Migration, The Open University
EducationPhD Geography, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
https://www.open.ac.uk/people/pr2892
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Visiting Toronto Metropolitan University

Fall 2024

Research focus while a CERC Scholar - The Governance of Migration in a Globalizing World

Parvati Raghuram is currently working on the conceptual architecture of migration studies. She looks forward to using this opportunity to hear from researchers engaged in migration research in South and North America, in order to see how migration theory can learn from diverse experiences of migration governance and management. She is also interested in how Indigenous and decolonial political sensibilities can be utilized in migration theory. Empirically, she aims to learn from, and contribute to, the vast scholarship on skilled migration and student migration in Canada and to think about a comparative project between the UK and Canada.

Career Achievements

Parvati Raghuram is Professor of Geography and Migration at the Open University, UK. She has published widely on retheorizing the migration of international students and skilled migrants. She is currently leading a grant on Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa. In this project she is looking at decolonization of education as a pedagogical challenge in interdisciplinary and intercontinental research. She won the prestigious Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 2016. She has written for policy audiences having co-authored research papers for a number of think-tanks, mostly recently authoring a review paper on Indian migrant women in the EU (external link)  for the EU-India Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility (external link) . She is associate editor of The Geographical Journal and the Palgrave Pivot series Mobility and Politics. She is the Chair of the Executive Board of IMISCOE.

Relevant Publications

Book

with Kofman, E. (2015) Gendered migrations and global social reproduction, London: Palgrave, pp. 264, ISBN: 9780230537088. (50%)

Journal articles

(2023) with Breines, Markus and Gunter, Ashley. Conceptualising place and non-place in internationalisation of higher education research. Globalisation, Societies and Education. DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2023.2248461

(2022). New racism or new Asia: what exactly is new and how does race matter? Ethnic and Racial Studies. 45(4), 778-788.

(2021). Caring for the Manifesto – steps towards making it an achievable dream. Invited Symposium contribution. Social Politics International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 28(4), 865–873.

(2021). With Mittelmeier, J., Gunter, A. & Rienties, B. (2021). Migration intentions of international distance education students studying from a South African institution: unpacking potential brain drain, Globalisation, Societies and Education, DOI: 10.1080/14767724.2021.1947202