Leah
Koskimaki
Leah Koskimaki is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Social Development (ISD) and Coordinator for an interdisciplinary project on Migration and Mobilities in the Office of the DVC- Academic at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. She received her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She has conducted extensive research in India on small town youth politics, regionalism, development and migrant transnationalism. Her current research project, “Tailoring Futures”, interrogates the precarity, aspirations and religious networks of contemporary South Asian migrants in Cape Town, South Africa.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 2346 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4130-9955 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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UN Countries
Roles
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University of the Western Cape
University, Cape Town, South Africa
Senior Lectuer -
University of the Western Cape
University, Cape Town, South Africa
Senior Lecturer
Research
Making Life Liveable in an Informal Market
| Authors | Nomkhosi Mbatha, Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Migration and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
No time to relax: waithood and work of young migrant street traders in Durban, South Africa
| Authors | Nomkhosi Mbatha, Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Social Dynamics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Development destinations and networked dreams
| Authors | Sulagna Mustafi, Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Provincial Globalization in India |
From agrarian landlords to transnational entrepreneurs
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Provincial Globalization in India |
Introduction
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki, Carol Upadhya |
| Year | 2018 |
| Book Title | Provincial Globalization in India |
Introduction: Reconsidering the Region in India
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki, Carol Upadhya |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of South Asian Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Youth Futures and a Masculine Development Ethos in the Regional Story of Uttarakhand
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of South Asian Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Regional Charisma: The Making of a Student Leader in a Himalayan Hill Town
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Provincial Globalization in India
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Refugee Precarity and Collective Transformation: Ongoing Struggles for a Liberatory Praxis in Urban South Africa
| Authors | Leah Koskimaki, Clementine Mukafuku |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |