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According to Wikipedia , Avtar Brah is a Ugandan-British sociologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, and a pioneer of diaspora studies. Life Avtar Brah was born in the Punjab and grew up in Uganda. Her mother tongue was Punjabi, and she recalls reading the novelist Nanak Singh, the eighteenth-century poet Waris Shah and the contemporary poet Amrita Pritam as a young person. In the late 1960s she studied on a scholarship in the United States before coming to Britain in the early 1970s, where she worked as a researcher at the Ethnic Relations Unit at Bristol University. She was left a stateless refugee in Britain after Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda. She began her PhD in the mid-1970s, researching Asian communities in Southall, and moved to Southall as a community worker when her research contract at Bristol University ended. She participated in a demonstration against the National Front at which hundreds of demonstrators were arrested, and was a founding member of the Southall Black Sisters.
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1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 0 250 500 750 1000 1250 1500 1750 2000 2250 2500 Published Works Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities (1996) Ain't I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality (2004) (1114)‘Race’ and ‘culture’ in the gendering of labour markets: South Asian young Muslim women and the labour market (1993) Hybridity and its discontents : politics, science, culture (2000) The Scent of Memory: Strangers, Our Own, and Others (1999) Re-Framing Europe: En-gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe (1993) Global futures : migration, environment and globalization (1999) (68)Difference, Diversity, Differentiation (1991) Diaspora, border and transnational identities (2005) Global mobilities, local predicaments: globalization and the critical imagination (2002) Interrogating cultural narratives about ‘honour’- based violence (2014) Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture (2001) Working choices : south asian young muslim women and the labour market (1992) (49)Non-Binarized Identities of Similarity and Difference (2007) South Asian teenagers in Southall: Their perceptions of marriage, family and ethnic identity (1978) the scent of memory: strangers, our own and others (1999) introduction: feminism and the politics of austerity (2015) Towards anti-sexist and anti-racist schooling (1986) Time, Place, and Others: Discourses of Race, Nation, and Ethnicity (1994) Combahee River Collective Statement: A Fortieth Anniversary Retrospective (2017) Journal of International Women's Studies (2004) (11)Inter-generational and inter-ethnic perceptions : a comparative study of South Asian and English adolescents and their parents in Southall (1979) (10)Unemployment and Racism: Asian Youth on the Dole (1986) Black struggles, equality and education (1988) Consuming Cultures (1997) Introduction: Whither ‘the Global’? (1999) Travels in Negotiations (2007) activism, imagination and writing: Avtar Brah reflects on her life and work with Les Back (2012) religion and spirituality (2011) Feminist Theory and Women of Color (2001) Locality, Globality and Gendered Refractions: Sikh Women in ‘Western’ Diasporas (2005) (3)A DIASPORA STUDY OF KIRAN DESAI'S INHERITANCE OF LOSS (2020) (3)Experimenter effects and the ethnic cueing phenomenon (1977) (3)editorial 109 introduction : feminism and the politics of austerity (2015) (2)Migration, racism and the hostile environment: making the case for the social sciences (2020) (2)Dissolving Diasporic Identities (2008) Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms (1997) contemporary feminist discourses and practices within and across boundaries: an interview with Avtar Brah (2017) Approaching Citizenship Through Inter-/Transdisciplinarity (2021) EUROPE, DIASPORA, AND MULTI-ETHNIC FUTURES: LOOKING THROUGH INTERSECTIONAL LENS (2015) (0)Identities (2003) Consuming cultures: Editorial (1997) (0)6.1 'DIASPORA, BORDER AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES' (2003) Refiguring the ‘multi’ (2005) some fragments by way of an afterword (2012) Thinking About Brexit (2017) members of the feminist review collective - past and present (2005) Marginal aesthetics of resistance ” : Race and Resistance in the Poetry of Usha Kishore Prasun Maji (2018) (0)Empirical interrogations (2004) Re-framing Europe (2005) Working with Asian young people : report of a course organised by the National Association for Asian Youth (1978) (0)Control over Women’s Bodies and Sexuality Amongst the Bangladeshi Diaspora in Britain (2017) (0)Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, by David Morley (ed.) (2020) Articulations Across Diaspora, Law and Literature (2016) Diaspora (2019) Globalization (2002) Notes on contributor (2023) (0)Race otherwise: forging a new humanism for South Africa (2019) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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