Dr. Pallavi Banerjee (she/they)

Pallavi Banerjee is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Research Excellence Chair at the University of Calgary.  She is the research lead and the Principal Investigator at the YARI-Collective.

Her research interests are situated at the intersections of sociology of immigration, refugee studies, gender, unpaid and paid labour, intersectionality, transnationalism, minority families and the Global South. Her book entitled, The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failures of Dependent-Visa Policy was published by NYU Press in 2022, explores how the immigration and visa regimes of United States affect men tech-worker and women nurses’ families of Indian immigrant professional workers in the U.S.  Her other work has been published in many peer-reviewed journals including the American Behavioral Scientist, Gender Work and Organizations, Sociological Forum, Women, Gender, and Families of Color among other journals. As a public sociologist she has also written opinion-pieces in venues such as The Globe and Mail, The Conversations and Ms Magazine and her research has been cited widely in the media in the U.S., Canada and India. Pallavi directs the Critical Gender, Intersectionality and Migration (CGIM) Research Group at the University of Calgary. Pallavi is rejuvenated by this wonderful collective that has come together to work towards an anti-racist and justice-oriented futures in collaboration with young people of colour from newcomer communities in Calgary. To find out more about Pallavi’s work please visit the Critical Gender, Intersectionality and Migration Research Group website: https://www.criticalmigration.org/home