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Amrita Hari

Professor (sabbatical)

Degrees:DPhil (Oxford), MA and BA Hons (University of Toronto)
Email:Amrita.Hari@carleton.ca

Amrita Hari is a Professor at the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation. Her research focuses on global migrations, transnationalism, citizenship, diaspora, and work. Dr. Hari investigates the ways in which gender, race, and class are reproduced in Canadian migration and labour policies.

To learn more about Dr. Hari’s work, you can also check out this YouTube video: Meet Your Professors: Amrita Hari

Courses taught: WGST2803: Body Matters – Politics of Bodies; WGST3803: Feminisms and Transnationalisms; WGST4003/5003: Traversing Feminisms; WGST5907: Researching Women’s and Gender Studies

Research areas of interest: Global migrations, transnationalism, diasporic formations, citizenship, anti-racism, gender, work, and social reproduction.

Selected Publications:

  1. Hari, A., Nardon, L., and Palic, D. (2024) “Doubly Precarious Immigrant Academics: Professional Identities and Work Integration of a Highly Skilled Precariat in Canadian Higher Education.” Equity, Diversity and Inclusion ahead-of-print No https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-01-2024-0038.
  2. Hari, A., Nardon, L., and Zhang, H. (2023). “A Transnational Lens into International Student Experiences of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Global Networks, 23(1): 14-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12332 [Open Access]
  3. Nardon, L., & Hari, A. (2022). Making Sense of Immigrant Work Integration: An Organizing Framework. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58365
  4. Hari, A., & Nagpal, S. (2022). The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India and the potential for statelessness in situ: a cautionary tale from Assam. Contemporary South Asia, 30(2), 194-201.
  5. Hari, A. (2017). Who gets to ‘work hard, play hard’? Gendering the work–life balance rhetoric in Canadian tech companies. Gender, Work & Organization, 24(2), 99-114.

Projects:

  1. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant (435-2020-0025) “A Longitudinal Study of Organized Social Support for Highly-Skilled Immigrant Women’s Social and Professional Integration” – 2020 – 2025 (Co-Investigator with Dr. Luciara Nardon, Sprott School of Business)
  2. Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Exchange – Knowledge Mobilization Grant – “International Student Mobility: Investigating Canadian Trends, Issues, and New Directions.” – 2021-2022
  3. Carleton University Centre for Research on Inclusion at Work Ignite! Grant – “Pandemic, Panic, and Precarity: Interviews with International Students Stranded in Ottawa during COVID-19” – 2021-2022 (Co-Investigator with Luciara Nardon)
  4. Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Engage Grant (892-2019-0024) “Investigating Highly Skilled Immigrant Women’s Employability during the COVID-19 Pandemic” – 2020-2021 (Co-Investigator with Dr. Aliya Kuzhabekova, Dr. Luciara Nardon, and Dr. Merridee L. Bujaki, Sprott School of Business)

In the Media:

  1. “Immigrant women are falling behind during the pandemic” with Luciara Nardon, The Conversation.
  2. “How to cope with pandemic fatigue by imagining metaphors” with Luciara Nardon, The Conversation. 
  3. “Global Policies and Local Realities: Examining Idea of Inclusive Citizenship in Post-CAA India” with Sugandha Nagpal, Firstpost 

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