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ProfessorSujatha Fernandes

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Fernandes is currently working on a book project based on extensive ethnographic research, entitled Staying Afloat: Migrants and Work in Global Cities. The project follows Indigenous migrant workers in Sydney, Mumbai and New York City as they support their families in climate-degraded villages and flood-prone cities, ultimately connecting the theft of migrant labor to a longer history of extraction – of bodies, life, and planetary resources.

 

Fernandes is open to supervisions in areas of migrant work, social and labor movements, climate justice, and related fields.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • PROJECT
    Staying Afloat: Migrants and Work in Global Cities
    1 Jan 2018
    Project leaders:
    • Fernandes S
    An ethnographic exploration of the lives and work of Indigenous migrant workers in the global cities of Sydney, Mumbai, and New York City
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Informal settlements: a critical media analysis on Chile's campamentos.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Urban Displacement in New York City and Gentrification as City-wide Strategy 2019-2024
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    VENEZUELA DURING THE CHÁVEZ ERA (1999-2013) Participatory Democracy, Economic Planning, and the Contradictions of Oil Dependency