Parvati Raghuram is Professor in Geography and Migration at the Open University. She has published widely on retheorising migration of international students, skilled migrants and that of care-workers. She has primarily worked on India but is also currently involved in several projects on migration within Africa. She has co-authored Gender, Migration and Social Reproduction (Palgrave), The Practice of Cultural Studies (Sage), Gender and International Migration in Europe (Routledge) and co-edited...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Open University

    University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
    Professor

  • The Open University

    University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
    Professor

  • Nottingham Trent University

    University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
    Lecturer

Research

Intersectional research for migration studies

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Gunjan Sondhi
Year 2024
Book Title How to Do Migration Research
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1 Book Chapter

Caring for the Manifesto—Steps toward Making It an Achievable Dream

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2022
Journal Name Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society
2 Journal Article

Migration intentions of international distance education students studying from a South African institution: unpacking potential brain drain

Authors Jenna Mittelmeier, Ashley Gunter, Parvati Raghuram, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Globalisation, Societies and Education
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3 Journal Article

New racism or new Asia: what exactly is new and how does race matter?

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2021
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
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4 Journal Article

Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city

Authors Gillian Rose, Parvati Raghuram, Sophie Watson, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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6 Journal Article

Distance education as socio‐material assemblage: Place, distribution, and aggregation

Authors Ashley Gunter, Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
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7 Journal Article

Beyond #FeesMustFall: International students, fees and everyday agency in the era of decolonisation

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines, Ashley Gunter
Year 2020
Journal Name Geoforum
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8 Journal Article

WhatsAppuse among African international distance education (IDE) students: transferring, translating and transforming educational experiences

Authors Clare Madge, Markus Roos Breines, Mwazvita Tapiwa Beatrice Dalu, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Learning, Media and Technology
9 Journal Article

Infrastructures of immobility: enabling international distance education students in Africa tonotmove

Authors Markus Roos Breines, Parvati Raghuram, Ashley Gunter
Year 2019
Journal Name Mobilities
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10 Journal Article

Race and feminist care ethics: intersectionality as method

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2019
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
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11 Journal Article

Internationalisation at a Distance and at Home: Academic and social adjustment in a South African distance learning context

Authors Jenna Mittelmeier, Bart Rienties, Jekaterina Rogaten, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name International Journal of Intercultural Relations
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12 Journal Article

New directions in studying policies of international student mobility and migration

Authors Yvonne Riano, Christof Van Mol, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2018
Journal Name GLOBALISATION SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION
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13 Journal Article

African women migration researchers and the question of reflexivity

Authors Omololá Olarinde, Parvati Raghuram, Delali Badasu, ...
Year 2024
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
14 Journal Article

Suggested Research

Caring about ‘brain drain’ migration in a postcolonial world

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2009
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 53
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1 Journal Article

Gendering Skilled Migratory Streams: Implications for Conceptualizations of Migration

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2000
Journal Name Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
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2 Journal Article

Democratizing, Stretching, Entangling, Transversing: Four Moves for Reshaping Migration Categories

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 16
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3 Journal Article

Migrant women in male‐dominated sectors of the labour market: a research agenda

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2007
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 36
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4 Journal Article

Global care, local configurations – challenges to conceptualizations of care

Authors PARVATI RAGHURAM
Year 2012
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 63
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5 Journal Article

Which migration, what development? Unsettling the edifice of migration and development

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2009
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 93
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6 Journal Article

Theorising the Spaces of Student Migration

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2012
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 102
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7 Journal Article

The difference that skills make: gender, family migration strategies and regulated labour markets

Authors Parvati Raghuram
Year 2004
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 101
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8 Journal Article

International Student Migration: Mapping the Field and New Research Agendas

Authors Russell King, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2012
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
Citations (WoS) 105
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9 Journal Article

Sites of Reproduction, Welfare Regimes and Migrants: Unpacking the Household

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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10 Book Chapter

The State, Skilled Labour Markets, and Immigration: The Case of Doctors in England

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Year 2002
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 42
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11 Journal Article

Gender and Global Labour Migrations: Incorporating Skilled Workers

Authors Eleonore Kofman, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2006
Journal Name Antipode
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12 Journal Article

Domestic service as a survival strategy in Delhi, India

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Janet Momsen
Year 1993
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 3
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13 Journal Article

Immigration Regulations and Social Reproduction

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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14 Book Chapter

Gendered Migrations and Global Processes

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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15 Book Chapter

The Value of Social Reproduction

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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16 Book Chapter

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

Authors Eleonore Kofman, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2015
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17 Book

Gender and skilled migrants: into and beyond the work place

Authors Eleonore Kofman, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2005
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 71
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18 Journal Article

Conceptualising Reproductive Labour Globally

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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19 Book Chapter

Gender and International Student Migration

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Gunjan Sondhi
Year 2021
Book Title The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration
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20 Book Chapter

An Introduction from the Guest Editors

Authors Eleonore Kofman, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2004
Journal Name Feminist Review
21 Journal Article

Studying economic institutions, placing cultural politics: methodological musings from a study of ethnic minority enterprise

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Adam Strange
Year 2001
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 7
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22 Journal Article

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction: An Introduction

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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23 Book Chapter

Migration, Social Reproduction and Inequality

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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24 Book Chapter

Skills and Social Reproductive Work

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Eleonore Kofman
Book Title Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
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25 Book Chapter

The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers' contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat, Leroi Henry
Year 2011
Journal Name Sociology of Health & Illness
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26 Journal Article

Gender and migration

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Omololá S. Olarinde
Year 2022
Book Title Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies
27 Book Chapter

Conceptualizing international education: From international student to international study

Authors Clare Madge, Parvati Raghuram, Pat Noxolo
Year 2015
Journal Name PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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28 Journal Article

Engaged pedagogy and responsibility: A postcolonial analysis of international students

Authors Clare Madge, Patricia Noxolo, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2009
Journal Name Geoforum
Citations (WoS) 91
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29 Journal Article

From Asia to the World: “Regional” Contributions to Global Migration Research

Authors Maruja M. B. Asis, Nicola Piper, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2019
Journal Name Revue européenne des migrations internationales
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30 Journal Article

De-migranticizing as methodology: rethinking migration studies through immobility and liminality

Authors Parvati Raghuram, Markus Roos Breines, Ashley Gunter
Year 2024
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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31 Journal Article

International Migration and Development in Asia: Exploring Knowledge Frameworks

Authors Maruja M. B. Asis, Nicola Piper, Parvati Raghuram
Year 2010
Journal Name International Migration
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32 Journal Article

Gender and International Migration in Europe

Authors Eleonore Kofman, Annie Phizacklea, Parvati Raghuram, ...
Year 2000
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33 Book

Skilled migration and the IT sector

Authors Gunjan Sondhi, Parvati Raghuram, Clem Herman, ...
Year 2018
Book Title India Migration Report 2018
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34 Book Chapter

Rethinking Migration Studies for 2050

Authors Anna Triandafyllidou, Anna Triandafyllidou, Marta Bivand Erdal, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
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35 Journal Article

Postcolonial migrations

Authors Susan P. Mains, Robina Mohammad, Mary Gilmartin, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Social & Cultural Geography
Citations (WoS) 13
36 Journal Article
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