Sujata Ramachandran

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MiFOOD Project, Wilfrid Laurier University and Southern African Migration Programme    

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Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow

Sujata Ramachandran

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MiFOOD Project, Wilfrid Laurier University and Southern African Migration Programme

sramachandran@balsillieschool.ca

 

Dr. Sujata Ramachandran is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, involved with the SSHRC-funded MiFOOD Project  and Southern African Migration Programme (SAMP). Trained as a human geographer, she has extensive experience researching migration in Canada, Southern Africa and South Asia. Sujata has worked as a researcher for many years with SAMP and participated in various projects on diaspora development engagement, xenophobia and migrant integration, refugee economies, crisis-related displacement and other issues funded by various international agencies.  She has contributed background research for UNDP’s Human Development Report and the Global Commission for International Migration (GCIM). She has consulted for the World Bank on gender and forced displacement.

Sujata recently participated in two studies on labour migration and mixed flows for the ILO-IOM-UNHCR-UNODC-led Southern African Migration Management Project (SAMM). She is currently engaged in a pilot study of migration statistics in South Africa for the African Union’s Joint Labour Migration Programme (JLMP), with Professor Crush and Statistics South Africa.

Sujata’s research examines the intricacies of the linkages between migration, migrants and their receiving and sending country settings, prospects, hurdles and frictions tied to these relationships, and their impacts on processes of development and transformation.

Select Publications

  • Ramachandran, S. and Crush, J. 2021. Between Burden and Benefit: Migrant Remittances, Social Protection and Sustainable Development. SAMP Migration Policy Series No. 83. Waterloo: SAMP, IMRC and BSIA.
  • Crush, J., Thomaz, D. and Ramachandran, S. 2021. “South-South Migration, Food Insecurity and COVID-19 Pandemic,” MiFood Working Paper No. 1, Waterloo: Hungry Cities Partnership and BSIA.
  • Ramachandran, S. and Crush, J. 2020. “Sustainable Development and Diaspora Engagement in Canada.” In Y. Samy and H. Duncan (Eds.) International Affairs and Canadian Migration Policy, Canada Among Nations series,153-182. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Ramachandran, S. 2019. “The Contours of Crimmigration Control in India.” GDP Working Paper No. 25. Geneva: Global Detention Project.
  • Ramachandran, S., Crush, J. and Tawodzera, G. 2017. “Security Risk and Xenophobia in the Urban Informal Sector,” African Human Mobility Review 3(3): 855-878.
  • Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., Chikanda, A., Ramachandran, S. and Tevera, D. 2017. The Double Crisis: Mass Migration from Zimbabwe and Xenophobic Violence in South Africa. Vienna: Migrants in Countries in Crisis Initiative, IOM and ICMPD.
  • Ramachandran, S. 2015. “Benevolent Funds: Philanthropic Practices of the South African Diaspora in Ontario.” In A. Chikanda, J. Crush and M. Walton-Roberts (Eds.) Diasporas, Development and Governance, 65-82. New York: Springer.
  • Ramachandran, S. 2015. “Capricious Citizenship: Identity, Identification and Banglo-Indians.” In R. Howard-Hassman and M. Walton-Roberts (Eds.) The Human Right to Citizenship: A Slippery Concept, 115-129. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Crush, J. and Ramachandran, S. 2015. “Doing Business with Xenophobia.” In J. Crush, A. Chikanda and C. Skinner (Eds.) Mean Streets: Migration, Xenophobia and Informality in South Africa, 25-59. Cape Town: SAMP, IDRC and African Center for Cities.
  • Crush, J. and Ramachandran, S. 2015. “Migration Myths and Extreme Xenophobia in South Africa.” In A. Wiesbrock and D. Acosta Arcarazo (Eds.) Global Migration: Old Assumptions, New Dynamics, 71-96.  Santa Barbara: Praeger.

Education

  • PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • MA, University of Toronto
  • MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University
  • BA, University of Delhi
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