Funded by the SSRC the project brings together seven multidisciplinary international scholars from the fields of history, economics, geography and sociology to develop an interdisciplinary methodological toolkit to study migrant precarity in the international context. The toolkit will draw from several interdisciplinary methods, including the life history calendar (LHC), in-depth interviews, focus group discussion (FGD), the Zaltman metaphor of elicitation technique (ZMET) and content analysis to answer the following question: How has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing precariousness and created new disruptions, thereby exposing the multidimensional structural underpinnings of migrants across various regional, international and class boundaries?
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the USA During the Covid 19 Pandemic (coauthored with Elizabeth Chacko, Paromita Sanyal and Bandana Purkayastha). Click here to access paper.
Papers in Progress
Effects of the Pandemic on Work-Life Balance Among Higher Skilled Asian Inda Immigrants in USA: Gender, Remote Work and Wellbeing, with Elizabeth Chacko and Paromita Sanyal. (draft in progress)
Pandemics, Migrants, and Precarious Lives: North-South Dialogues (Edited book in preparation with Elizabeth Chacko and Bandana Purkayastha)
Conference presentations in 2023
Long Tail of Covid-19, ASA, Philadelphia, 2023
Reflections on the Pandemic Conference, Kolkata July 26th, 2023
Research team
Anandhi Shanmugasundaram (Consultant)
Sharmila Ray Kumam (Conference Coordinator)
Conference and Workshop on Reflections and Impacts on Pandemics, Kolkata, 2023
Soma Chaudhuri 