Laavanya
Kathiravelu
Laavanya Kathiravelu is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research is at the intersections of international migration, race and ethnic studies and contemporary urban diversity, particularly in Asia and the Persian Gulf. Her first book was Migrant Dubai (Palgrave, 2016), which explored experiences of low wage migrant workers in the UAE. She has also published widely on issues of race, inequality and migration in Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. She was also a Fung Fellow at Princeton University between 2015-16. In 2019, she was recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (SSHRF) and recognised as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) in the area of academic leadership. Laavanya is board member of migrant welfare organisation, HOME as well as civil society group AWARE, whose aim is to advance gender equality. She comments regularly on public forums and through op-eds on issues of migration, race and diversity in Singapore. In 2022, she was a Fulbright Scholar based at the City University of New York (CUNY)
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
- Racism, xenophobia and discrimination
- Cultural identity and belonging
- Attitudes, migration and migrants
- Media representations of migration
- Ethnic, religious and national minorities
- Diasporas and transnational communities
- Descendants of migrants
- Interethnic contact and conflict
- Intergroup relations and contact
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Transversal themes
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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Nanyang Technological University
University, Singapore, Singapore
Research
Introduction: Urban friendship networks: Affective negotiations and potentialities of care
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu, Tim Bunnell |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Immigration without diversity: the invisible second generation in Singapore
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Social Networks in Dubai: Informal Solidarities in an Uncaring State
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Conceptualizing migration beyond the “West”: a view from Asia
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Mobilities |
“It's purely mutual respect”: Cross‐cultural taboos and the everyday reproduction of Singaporean nationalism
| Authors | Laavanya Kathiravelu, Sharad Pandian |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism |
More than race: a comparative analysis of “new” Indian and Chinese migration in Singapore
| Authors | Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Laavanya Kathiravelu |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Locating Race in Migration and Diversity Studies
| Authors | Kristine Aquino, Laavanya Kathiravelu, Emma Mitchell |
| Year | 2022 |
| Book Title | Introduction to Migration Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |