RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

BOOK

• (2025). The future of Indian diplomacy: Exploring multidisciplinary lenses, co-edited with Eerishika Pankaj, New Delhi: KW Publishers Pvt Ltd, ISBN: 978-81-984037-3-5.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

AY 2022-23

• (2022). COVID-19 and the interstate migrant crisis in India: Key lessons to learn, in L. Pulikkalakath & Shahina Mol A.K. (eds.), Migrants and Displaced amid COVID-19: Issues, Challenges and Policy Options, New Delhi: Adroit Publishers, ISBN 978-81-87393-986, pp. 1-17.

AY 2021-22

• (2022). Life of Sri Lankan refugee women in the camps of Tamil Nadu (co-author: D. Athray), in S. I. Rajan (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, Routledge, ISBN: 978-1-032-16057-3 (pbk), pp. 642-654.


• (2021). Strengthening the India-EU migration corridor: The way forward, in N. Inamdar, P. V. Poojary, & P. Shetty (eds.), Contours of India-EU Engagements: Multiplicity of Experiences, Manipal Universal Press, ISBN: 978-93-88337-26-7, pp. 424-446.

AY 2020-2021

• (2021). Book review - Dharma in America: A short history of Hindu-Jain diaspora. South Asian Diaspora, 13(2), 221-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2021.1909906


• (2020). Re-reading the banyan tree analogy: Everyday life and identity of Indian diaspora in Britain, in R. Gowricharn (ed.), Shifting Transnational Bonding in Indian Diaspora, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-367-72335-4, pp. 17-35.

AY 2018-19

• (2018). Towards a digitally empowered society: The case of Digital India Programme, in C. Vinodan (ed.), Governance and Development Challenges in India, New Century Publishers, ISBN 978-81-7708-445-0, pp. 69-82.


• (2018). International Relations: A historical perspective, in S. Tripathi (ed.), International Relations: Theories and Approaches, Worldview Publications, ISBN 978-93822-67-324, pp.16-30.

AY 2014-15

• (2014). Multiculturalism as a policy of integration in Britain, in R. K. Jain (ed.), Multiculturalism in India and Europe, Aakar Books, ISBN 978-93-5002-279-5, pp. 168-182.

AY 2013-14

• (2013). Linking counter-terrorism strategies with migration policies: A puzzling case of post 9/11 Britain. Journal of Polity and Society, 5(1/2), 58-75. ISSN 0976-0210.


• (2013). Towards a common EU immigration policy: An analysis of post-Lisbon treaty developments. Holistic Thought, 12(1/2), 81-96. ISSN 0975-363.

RESEARCH MONOGRAPH

AY 2014-2015

• (2015). Indian immigrants in Britain: Features of diasporic life post-2000s, Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism Research Monograph Series, No. 6. ISSN 2454-3675.

POLICY BRIEFS

AY 2023-24

• (2023). Indians in the Gulf: The migration question and the way forward, co-authored with S. Irudaya Rajan, GLMM Policy Brief, No. 4, Gulf Labour Markets, Migration, and Population (GLMM) Programme.


• (2023). A Reflection on India-EU Strategic Partnership on Migration and Mobility, in Building the Future of EU-India Strategic Partnership: Between Trade, Technology, Security and China, ORCA Special Issue 1, co-published with Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI) Business Council, pp. 84-94.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP ARTICLES

AY 2024-25

• (2024, August 09). Survey of Migrant Workers Must for Conducive Policies, The Times of India.

AY 2023-24

• (2024, June 20). Opinion: We have collectively failed generations of migrants to Gulf nations, The Federal.


• (2024, May 03). Opinion: Barely any ‘Nyay’ or ‘Guarantee’ for NRIs, Telangana Today.


• (2024, April 07). Leaving NRI voters behind, Telangana Today (Rewind).


• (2024, April). Recounting the tales of departures: A survey of expatriate literature from Kerala, Pravasi Pulse, Volume 1, Issue 2.


• (2024, March 11). Opinion: When dreams turn deadly, Telangana Today.


• (2023, July 11). Migration is key to optimising gains of a rising workforce, The Times of India.

AY 2021-22

• (2022, June 20). A reflection on this World Refugee Day!, The Migration News.


• (2022, June 13). The trouble with Europe outsourcing asylum, Gateway House Newsletter, Volume XI, Issue 24.


• (2022, April 7). Ukrainian refugees: EU rhetoric or paradigm shift?. Gateway House Newsletter, 11(14).


• (2022, March 8). At the crossroads: COVID-19 and the ordeals of India’s Gulf migrants. The AIDEM.


• (2022, February 13). Amid challenges, Malayalam radio makes strides in the Gulf. The Times of India.

AY 2020-2021

• (2021, June 1). Mobile women without mobile phones: Indian domestic workers in the Gulf, in M. R. Dehli & L. L. Guerrero (eds.), Routed: Mobility & (Im)mobility Magazine, pp. 51-53.


• (2021, June 18). There are 100,000 ‘irregular’ Indian immigrants in the UK – but repatriating them home isn’t easy. Scroll.in.


• (2021, May 27). Indian immigration to the UK: Still conflicted. Gateway House Newsletter, 10(21).


• (2021, August 8). Telangana to Gulf: A migration corridor at crossroads. Telangana Today.


• (2021, May 12). End the haunting silence. The New Indian Express.


• (2021, April 6). Migrant workers nowhere on the election horizon.The Times of India.

AY 2019-2020

• (2020, June 1). COVID-19 pandemic and internal migrants in Maharashtra: Implications and responses. Sambhāṣaṇ, 1(2), pp. 26-32.


• (2020, April 1). Health and safety of interstate migrant workers in India during COVID-19: Inadequacy of the labour laws. Roots and Routes, 9(1-4).


• (2020, April 1). In search of home. Telangana Today.


• (2020, March 30). They are our guests, let’s behave like hosts. The Times of India.

AY 2018-19

• (2019, May 30). Placing the misplaced priorities right: Diaspora in election manifestos and the case of MOIA. FLAME Newsroom.


• (2019, August 27). Growing India-UAE ties to benefit expats. The Times of India.


• (2019, August 10). Contradictory impact of UAE golden card. The New Indian Express.


• (2019, October 28). Tales of the fringes: Reading Unni R.’s ‘one hell of a lover’. The Wire.

SELECTED INVITED LECTURES

AY 2024-25

• (2024, November 29). Elderly parents of the Gulf migrants in Kerala: A sociological enquiry into the prospects of productive ageing and empowerment, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.


• (2024, October 25). Transcending boundaries: Interdisciplinary explorations of the varied realities of contemporary Indian migration. RC04-Indian Sociological Society (ISS) and Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Kerala.


• (2024, August 6). Kerala’s many migrations: Tracing the history of Malayālīs’ global migration. Department of History and Political Science, CMS College, Kottayam, Kerala.

AY 2023-24

• (2024, March 4-8). Methodological issues in research on student migration from India. Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.


• (2024, January 24). From home to the world's end: Unfolding the shifts in international migration from Kerala. Department of Sociology and Centre for Research, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam, Kerala.

AY 2022-23

• (2023, February 28). Women on the move: Universalising the gender perspective on migration and mobility. St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam, Kerala, in association with Mahatma Gandhi University, UGC-STRIDE.


• (2022, August 12). International migration and the sociality of everyday experiences of Indians abroad. Centre for Diaspora Studies, School of International Relations and Politics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.


• (2022, July 30). Social costs and benefits of international migration. School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi.

AY 2021-22

• (2022, March 21). Understanding Indian diaspora. Faculty Induction Programme (FIP-04/05-2021-22), UGC-HRDC, Manipur University, Imphal.


• (2022, February 22). Women and migration: Locating and mainstreaming gender in migration discourses in India. Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana.


• (2022, January 4-7). Publicness of personal memories and narrative identities in the expatriate literature of Kerala. University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.


• (2021, November 5). Indian women migrant labourers in the Gulf countries and the impact of COVID-19. Asia Panel Event on Female Migrant Labourers and COVID-19, Global Research Network, The United Kingdom.


• (2021, October 24). Migration and the Indian gig economy. Migration and Telemigration in the Gig Economy, WageIndicator Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

AY 2020-21

• (2021, June 21). Refugee women and their everyday lives in India: Before and during the pandemic. Galgotias University, Uttar Pradesh.


• (2021, February 18). India-United Kingdom relations in the post-Brexit era. Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.


• (2021, January 30). Migration governance in India: Issues and the way forward. Payyannur College, Kannur, Kerala.


• (2020, December 17). India-EU engagement in migration and mobility: Issues and the way forward. Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala.


• (2020, October 31). Migrants and their narrative identity: Mapping the Indian diaspora literature. O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana.


• (2020, July 9). Capacity building of women and children who have migrated and left behind. International Justice Mission, Patna (IJM), Bihar Office.

AY 2015-2016

• (2015, December 15). Indian immigrants in Europe. Manipal University, Karnataka.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

AY 2024-25

• (2025, March 14). From access to empowerment: A case for enabling Indian women migrants in the Gulf through digital tools. Kaplan Business School, Australia.


• (2024, November 15). India’s changing demographics: Migration as a strategy for optimising population dividends. Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Kerala, and RC04 Migration and Diaspora Studies, Indian Sociological Society (ISS).


• (2024, August 28). Social cost of India’s international migration: Why does it matter?. Department of Geography and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Shri Rawatpura Sarkar University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

AY 2023-24

• (2024, January 25). Limits of migration governance in India: The curious case of pandemic-induced return of migrants to Kerala and their rehabilitation. Department of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Kerala.


• (2023, December 16). Returning home from the Gulf: A policy analysis of the rehabilitation and reintegration of Gulf migrants to Kerala. Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.


• (2023, November 27). Africa calling: An exploration of ethnonational identity and engagements among the South Indian Malayali diaspora in Africa. Department of South African and Brazilian Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.


• (2023, November 9). Indian women labourers in the Gulf countries: Conversations about migration from a gendered lens. Altınbaş University and Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.

AY 2022-23

• (2023, March 15). Return and reintegration of Gulf migrants to Kerala society: An exploration of public attitudes and policy gaps. Department of West Asian and North African Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.


• (2023, February 25). Migration, memory, and the Gulflore: Making of Gulf Malayali identity in Kerala. Centre for Diaspora Studies, the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.


• (2022, November 3-4). India’s Gulf migrants: A gendered approach to their migration experiences before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, New Delhi, Centre for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, Mexico, and Migrant Forum Asia (MFA), Manila, Philippines.

AY 2018-19

• (2019, June 14-15). Permanence of impermanence: The depiction of expatriate lives in the diasporic literature of Kerala, India. Vertex Research Society, The United Arab Emirates.


• (2019, March 14-16). Fragmented lives of expatriates: A rereading of Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan. Andhra University, Vishakhapatanam, Andhra Pradesh.


• (2018, December 14-16). Portrayal of cultural identity in diasporic literature: A rereading of Meera Syal’s Anita and Me. Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune.


• (2018, September 7-8). Longing for home: Mapping the Indian diasporic literature and popular culture in Europe. Dnyansagar Institute of Management and Research, Pune.

AY 2017-2018

• (2018, June 18-21). Ethnic popular culture among the Indian diaspora in multicultural Britain: A case study approach. FIAP Jean Monnet, Paris, France.


• (2018, May 17-20). Diaspora problematics in the age of globalisation: A case of Indian immigrants in Britain. International Social Sciences and Humanities Conference, Berlin, Germany.


• (2018, April 25). European Studies in India: Opportunity gained or lost?. University of Basel, Switzerland.


• (2017, October 13-14). Migration in the age of (post) globalisation: Rise of far-right extremism and diaspora problematics. Central University of Kashmir, Nowgam Campus-2, Srinagar.


• (2017, October 5-7). Re-reading the banyan tree analogy: The everyday life of Indian diaspora in Europe. VU University Amsterdam & Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Hague, The Netherlands.

AY 2016-2017

• (2017, February 25). Contextualising diasporic culture and identity in the age of global migration. FLAME University, Pune.


• (2016, November 26-27). Empowered or engulfed: A study on the impact of migration on the Gulf wives of Kerala. Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism, New Delhi.

AY 2015-2016

• (2015, November 27-28). Cultural representation among Indian diaspora in multicultural Britain: An analysis of ethnic popular media and Bollywood effect. Mercy College, Palakkad, Kerala.


• (2015, July 29-31). Strategising Indianness abroad: A socio-cultural account of indian diasporic life in Britain. MSM College, Kayamkulam, Kerala.

AY 2012-2013

• (2013, March 15-16). Negotiating contested spaces of identity: Indian diaspora in Britain. School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi.


• (2012, December 29). Indian emigration to the United Kingdom: A historical inquiry. Indian History Congress, Mumbai University, Mumbai.


• (2012, March 2). Indian immigrants in Britain: A socio-cultural profile. School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi.

AY 2011-2012

• (2011, September 22). The impact of the Lisbon Treaty on EU immigration policies: A special case analysis of Britain. School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi.