Intersectional Feminism in Immigrant Families

Join us for a lunch and learn discussion as part of the “Who Needs Feminism Campaign”. Dr. Pallavi Banerjee, Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology, will be sharing her research on how families are affected by race, gender, and labor regimes. In this session she will explore how state, corporate, and religious institutional policies and practices impact the lives of immigrant, transnational, and minority families in North America. Dr. Banerjee’s research interests are situated at the intersections of immigration, minority families, and gender. Bring your lunch and your questions to this interactive session.

Location:

The Women’s Resource Centre (MSC 482)

Speaker:

Dr. Pallavi Banerjee received her Ph.D in Sociology at the University of Illinois and was a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University before coming to the University of Calgary as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. Her research interests are situated at the intersections of sociology of families, international immigration, gender/feminist theory and transnationalism. Her research unravels processes through which the state, corporations, and other related institutions operate together as gender and labor regimes to reconfigure the lived experiences of minority and transnational families in public and private spheres. She is currently working on two research projects. The first involves a book manuscript that is tentatively titled Dismantling Dependence: Gendered Migration of Indian Professional Families and the Politics of Visa Regimes. A second project examines the family dynamics of South Asian immigrant women, particularly Muslim women across class locations, religious practices, immigration status, and motherhood.

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/intersectional-feminism-immigrant-families