Refereed Contributions
Refereed Publications
Book
2022 “Why Would I Be Married Here?” Understanding Gender, Dispossession of Choice, and Marriage Migration for Poor Women in Neoliberal India. Cornell University Press.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501764134/why-would-i-be-married-here/#bookTabs=1
Forthcoming Journal Articles
2023 Introduction to Special Issue Bordering Regimes and Transitioning Masculinities of Racialized Migrant Men: A Case Study of the EU. NORMA: Journal of Masculinity Studies
2023 Intimate Dispossessions: Cross-region Marriage Migration in India and Status of Migrant Brides Journal of African and Asian Studies
Published
2023 Masculine borders as alienation of racialized, undocumented south Asian migrant workers in Greece NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies
2022 Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian male migrants in Greece Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2021 COVID-19, Racial Capitalism and Undocumented Bangladeshi Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece. Two Homelands
2021 Colorism as Marriage Capital: Cross-Region Marriage Migration in India and Dark-Skinned Migrant Brides, Gender & Society
2020 Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among South Asian Male Migrants in Greece, Men & Masculinities
2019 Visible yet invisible: the disciplinary mechanism of self-surveillance among undocumented South Asian male migrants in rural Greece, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
2018 An Unwanted Weed: Children of Cross-region Unions Confront Intergenerational Stigma of Caste, Ethnicity and Religion, Journal of Intercultural Studies,39:4, 382-398, DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2018.1484345
2017 Caste and Cross-region Marriages in Haryana, India: Experience of Dalit cross-region brides in Jat households, Modern Asian Studies; Cambridge Vol. 52, Iss. 2, (Mar 2018): 492-531.DOI:10.1017/S0026749X16000391
In Progress
“Haunting memories as borders in qualitative research with migrant men” For a Special Issue in Qualitative Research with the theme, “Interrogating Bordering in Qualitative Research: Self-Identified Female Scholars Working on Migrant Men and Masculinities.”
Book Chapters
Forthcoming
2024 Colorism as Marriage Capital: Creating a New Form of Gendered Violence in India. For Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (3rd Edition), edited by Ayu Saraswathi and Barbra Shaw, and Heather Rellihan, Oxford University Press
Published
2023 “Masculine Anxieties of Undocumented South Asian Male Agricultural Workers in Greece: Productive Use of Bordering Regimes and Potential Emasculation by Racial Capitalism” in (ed. Garth Stahl and Yang Zhao) Migratory Men: Place, Transnationalism and Masculinities, London: Routledge
2020 Kukreja, Reena. “An unwanted weed: children of cross-region unions confront intergenerational stigma of caste, ethnicity, and religion.” In (ed. Erica Chito Childs) The Boundaries of Mixedness: A Global Perspective, Routledge.
In Progress
Invited chapter “Migration, Sport, and South Asian Masculinities” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian History (ed. David Ludden)
Encylopaedia Entries
2020 Meo Muslim, Mev, Mewati Muslim. Database of Religious History Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.
Conference Papers
2023 Invited Talk: “Marriage Migration in Contemporary India: Articulation of a New Form of Gendered Violence,” Interdisciplinary Social Research Seminar Series, Trent University, 27 September
2023 Invited Talk: “Colorism as Marriage Capital in India: Unpacking the Nexus of Global Capitalism with Gendered Patriarchal and Caste Ideology in Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice,” Symposium, “Colorism Across Global Lines,” New York University at Abu Dhabi, 15-16 May
2023 “Imaginaries of the Deviant Other: Governance of Desire and Family- formation among South Asian Migrants in Greece shaped by bordering regimes of racism and Islamophobia,” in Panel, “Moral gatekeeping in the migration regime: family norms and imaginaries of intimacy,” IMISCOE International Migration Research Network 20th Annual Conference, Warsaw, Poland (3-6 July)
2023 “Flipping the Script: Migrant Agricultural Workers Re-presentation Through Photovoice,” Panel, “Refugee and Migrant Solidarity Movements in and Through Pandemic Times,” International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, 17 March .
2022 “The Relationship Between the Supervisor and the Worker is Never One of Cordiality”: Examining Migrant Stratifications Between Co-Ethnic Supervisors and South Asian Male Agrarian Migrant Workers in Greece in Panel, “Migratory Stratifications: A New Perspective to Observe the Intersection Between Migration and Social Change.” The Migration Conference, Rabat, Morocco, September 2022
2022 “We Will Tell You the Truth. After All, You Are One of Us.” Dilemmas of Co-ethnic Female Positionality in the Panel, Researching Migrant Men, Migrant Masculinities: Negotiating “Female” Researcher Identity in Knowledge Production, Feminist Geography Conference, Boulder, Colorado. I was also the convenor of this panel that had three other self-identifying female scholars present their papers alongside (17 June)
2022 Bordering Regimes and Transitioning Masculinities of Racialized Migrant Men: A Case Study of the EU. University of Iceland (20 April)
2021 Using Indigenous Sport as Resistance Against Migrant Exclusion: Kabaddi and South Asian Male Migrants in Greece. Challenging Nationalisms Through Acts of Resistance, Acts of Solidarity. IPSA 26th World Congress of Political Science (July)
2021 ‘Lakeeran’ The Lines Between Us: Experiencing and Undoing Borders Among South Asian Migrant Men in Greece. Neither Here Nor There: Reshaping of Transitioning Migrant Masculinities at Borderlands. American Masculinities Studies Association (June)
2021 “This Is Evidence”: Using Photovoice to Understand Masculinity and Temporary Agricultural Work Among Undocumented South Asian Male Migrants in Greece. Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, London, U.K.
2016 An Unwanted Weed: Children of Cross-region unions Confront Inter-generational Stigma of Caste, Ethnicity, and Religion. Gender in India Symposium, Guelph University, Canada.
2014 Cross-region Brides as the Internal Other: Assimilation or Discrimination. panel: ‘Scarce Women’ and ‘Surplus Men’: Bride Migration, Family and Gender Relations in India, 12th Women’s World Congress, Hyderabad, India.
2014 Activism! Collaboration!! Filmmaking as a tool for social change. Panelist, Session on Communication and Development, Glocal Classroom Conference, Guelph University, Guelph.
2012 with Kumar, P. Bought? Trafficked? Or Married?? Female deficit, cross-region marriages and the role of women intermediaries CASIDS Conference, Waterloo, Canada.
2008 Interrogating Patriotism: What Role For Muslim Women? Human Condition Series Conference on Terror, Barrie, Canada
Keynote
2006 Transnational Dialogue or Monologue? What happens to the South in North-South Interaction?” Keynote address, International Educators Training Program, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
1997 Micro-credit to Micro-success: Tales of Women in Rajasthan. Queen's University Partners in Development (QPID), Queen’s University, Kingston.
Invited Talks and Panels
Forthcoming
2023 Marriage Migration of Dalit and Muslim Women in India: Articulation of New Form of Gendered Violence, Asian Institute, University of Toronto (17 November)
Past
2023 “Sustainable agriculture? Unjust Labour? Exploitation of Migrant Farm Workers To Secure Food Security?,” QPID Youth Conference on Sustainable Agriculture (30 March)
2023 “Marriage Migration and Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Neoliberal India,” SNID (Studies in National and International Development), Queen’s University (26 January)
2022 ‘Lakeeran’ The Lines Between Us: Experiencing and Undoing Borders Among South Asian Migrant Men in Greece. Centre for Social Impact, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada (1 March)
2021 “Saarey Passey Maarey Gaye”: Undocumented Indian Male Migrants in Greece Caught Between the Agrarian Crisis in India, Failed Masculinity, and Migrant Illegality in Greece. Inaugural talk for a new migration themed speaker series, Centre for Migration and Mobility Studies Seminar Series, Jindal School of International Affairs, India (30 September)
2021 Injustices in the Globalized Food System: Migrant Agricultural Work in Canada and Greece. Gender Matters Speaker Series, Queen’s University, Canada (3 Feb)
2021 Funny Boy, The Film: A Panel Discussion. Colloquium Cultural Studies Speaker Series, Queen’s University, Canada (27 Jan)
2020 Migrant Illegality and Access to Healthcare: Case Study of Undocumented South Asian Migrant Agricultural Workers in Greece. ARCH: A Research Collaborative for Global Health Equity, Queen’s University, Canada (14 Oct)
2020 Recouping Masculinity: Insights from Undocumented South Asian Male Migrants in Greece. Migration Working Group, CERC in Migration and Integration, Ryerson University. Toronto (June)
2019 Failed Masculinity as a Labour Disciplinary Force: The Case Study of Undocumented South Asian Migrants in Greece. Migration and Asylum Policy vs Migrants’ and Refugees’ Claims of Justice in Greece, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
2018 Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood: Exploring the Contradictions of Failed Masculinity Among Undocumented South Asian Male Migrants. SNID, Queen’s University. (November)
2018 Visible yet invisible: The disciplinary mechanism of self-surveillance among undocumented South Asian men in rural Greece. International Migration Research Centre, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. (October)
2017 Theorizing Women’s Lives through the Lens of Dalit Feminist Thought. Ideas Left Outside Conference, Kingston, Canada.
2016 Inspiring Women. Panelist, Ban Righ Foundation First Celebration of Inspiring Women, Kingston, Canada.
2014 Compromised Brides: examining the links between Neoliberalism in India and cross-region marriage. Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto.
2013 Intersection of Caste, Class and Gender: Cross-region Marriages in North India. Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi.
2013 Marriage Migration: Mental health concerns for cross-region brides. UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), South Asia Office, New Delhi, India.
2013 Trafficked or Married: examining the role of agents and traffickers in marriage migration in North India. Regional Office for South Asia, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), New Delhi.
2013 The Internal Other: a close look at the treatment of cross-region brides by conjugal communities in North India. International Centre for Research on Women, New Delhi.
2011 Live-in Female Domestic Workers: Whither Labour Rights? International Labour Organisation Subregional Office South Asia, New Delhi.
2010 Single Female Migrants and Domestic Labour. Indian Social Institute, New Delhi.
2006 Patriots? Terrorists? Stereotyping Muslim Women in Indian Cinema. Marxism 2006 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
2005 Cine Patriotism, Indian Cinema, and Muslims. Cultures of Domination and Cultures of Protest, Marxism and the Movement Today, Toronto.
2004 The Arts and Development – Engaging the Storytellers. World University Services of Canada Annual Assembly.
2003 Making Documentaries on Development. Panelist, International Development Week, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
1999 Transnational Corporations in India: Environment, Industrialization, and Resistance, SNID (Studies in National and International Development), Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
1993 Telling It Like It Is: Television for, by, and about International Students. CBIE Annual Conference on International Education and Democratic Reform, Ottawa.
1993 We Will Build This Wall: Struggles of Women Construction Workers in India. SNID (Studies in National and International Development), Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
Public Scholarship
2022 Migrant Workers Are Flipping The Script And Using Photovoice To Tell Their Own Stories. The Conversation, 8 May
2021 Light Skin As Marriage Capital. Gender & Society Blog, 13 January 2021
2020 The Bitter Taste of Greek Strawberries. Pandemic Borders. Open Democracy, 2 Sept. 2020
2019 Migrant Strawberry Pickers Face Deadly Risks Living in Flammable Shacks, The Conversation, 10 November 2019.
2018 Looking for Home in Greece: Undocumented Indians and the Hope of a Better Life, The Indian Express, 4 November 2018, (printed in all 9 national editions with a print readership of 16 million and online readership of 74 million)
2018 Reelness Focus of Annual Film Festival. The Kingston Whig Standard, Canada. (26 January 2018)
2017 Solidarity Kingston Group Hopes to Make Kingston a Sanctuary City. Kingston Heritage, Canada (28 July 2017)
2013 with Kumar, P. Tied in a Knot: Cross-region Marriages in Haryana and Rajasthan Implications for Gender Rights and Gender Relations, New Delhi: Tamarind Tree Films, p 82.Click to read the Policy Report PDF
2011 Into the City: Domestic Workers Tell Their Stories, Himal South Asian, October 2011.