Harshita Yalamarty PhD
Areas Of Expertise
Migration, Feminist and Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, South Asian Canadian diaspora, Immigration and Citizenship Policy, Settler Colonialism, Migrant Social Justice
Biography
Harshita Yalamarty (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Gender and Migration. She is a former international student with a PhD in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University (Tkaronto), and an MPhil and an MA in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Before coming to TMU, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Queen’s University (Kingston/Katarakwi) and an Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax (K’jipuktuk). She has also previously taught at University of Delhi.
Her research looks at the intersections of marriage and migration decisions, specifically marriage as a pathway to migration across skilled workers and international students. She is also engaged in community-led research around caste experiences in the South Asian Canadian diaspora. Her dissertation was awarded the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize (2022) and the Mary McEwan Memorial Prize in feminist scholarship (2022) by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University. She also enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy, watching baking shows, is a budding birder and can talk for hours about the transformative potential of playing tabletop roleplaying games.
Research interests
Immigration and citizenship policy, gender analysis, marriage migration transnational marriage abandonment, intersectional feminism, South Asian diaspora, caste formations, settler colonialism, migrant social justice
Selected Publications
Yalamarty, H., Gaucher, M., Tungohan, E., & Atique, A. (2025). ‘We all know the benefits of having our parents and grandparents here with us’: super visas, temporary grand/parent migration, and Canadian nation building. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-20.
Yalamarty, H., Anitha, S., & Roy, A. (2025). Im/mobility as a form of gender-based violence: the case of transnationally abandoned wives in India. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 9(2), 291-307.
Yalamarty, H. (2024). Model Minorities and Marriage Migration: Experiences of Indian Migrant Women in Canada. In S.I. Rajan (ed) India Migration Report 2024 (pp. 174-198). Routledge India.
Yalamarty, H. (2020). Lessons from "No Ban on Stolen Land"(Dispatch). Studies in Social Justice, 14(2), 474-485.