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The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

The Institute for Immigration Research welcomes you to register for a hybrid conversation with Rina Agarwala, professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.

A sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have used different forms of collective action to react, resist, and re-shape India’s development agenda over time.

Rina Agarwala is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Agarwala publishes and lectures on international development, labor, migration, gender, social movements, and Indian politics. Agarwala is the author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India (Cambridge, 2013) and the co-editor of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia (Routledge, 2008). Her most recent book is The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration (Oxford, 2022). She has also worked at the United Nations Development Program in China, the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India, and Women’s World Banking in New York.

Mar 8, 2023 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)