Parvati Raghuram: "Four Moves for Reshaping Migration Categories."

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[music] Speaker 1: On the go sprint lectures on African mobilities podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 2: Now an introduction of our speaker for today. Professor Pavati Raguram is a professor of geography and migration research and policy at the Open University in the UK. Her scholarly interests fall under the intersections of globalisation, migration and mobility, gender, class and race politics as well as postcolonial theory. Broadly her research interrogates the implications of mobility for class and race politics and the ways that postcolonial theory can offer routes for really understanding and also contesting some of these politics. Professor Pavati has primarily worked on the tech industry in India and the UK, but as she rightly pointed to us a few minutes ago, she's also currently involved in a few projects on migration within Africa. She has published extensively on retheorising migration of skilled migrants, care workers, but also on international students in the Global North. For our talk today, she will be sharing with us a recently published paper in the Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies titled 'Democratising, Stretching, Entangling, Transversing: All Moves for Reshaping Migration Categories'. So we are very, very delighted to have Professor Pavati Raguram with us and Professor, the floor is yours. Speaker 1: So the paper really comes out of whole issues around categorisation that have sort of befuddled me ever since I came to the UK thirty odd years ago. So in India I did urban geography. So when I came here as a very young mother to the UK, I thought, let me do urban geography. Then I was told, no, no, no, you have to do development studies. And I had never done development studies in my life. I had done economic geography which is not the same thing at all for us because it was about... But here what was economics in India was development here. So clearly where I started from and the fact that how I looked mattered in how I got… Read the full text about 6,925 words

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