Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary
Email: pallavi.banerjee@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @pallavib
Website: https://criticalmigration.org/
Topics of Expertise: Children / Division of Labor in Families / Feminism & Families / Gender & Sexuality / Immigrant, Mixed Status, & Transnational Families / Parenthood / Work & Family
Pallavi Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary since 2015. Before this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the sociology department at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago in December of 2012.
Her research interests are situated at the intersections of the sociology of immigration, refugee studies, gender, unpaid and paid labor, 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 the United States affect men tech-worker and women nurses’ families of Indian immigrant professional workers in the U.S. Her other award-winning research has been published in many peer-reviewed journals including the American Behavioral Scientist, Gender Work and Organizations, Studies in Social Justice, Sociological Forum, Women, Gender, and Families of Color, among other journals.
She is currently working on a book manuscript on how refugee resettlement creates gendered labor regimes among Yazidi, Syrian and Rohingya refugees in the U.S. and Canada. She also is co-writing a book with her doctoral student, entitled Gender: New Trajectories in Law contracted with Routledge Press. 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.
She is currently co-editing two Special Issues for the journals Gender and Society and Canadian Ethnic Studies. She has been on the editorial boards of Gender and Society and the Journal of Family and Economic Issues for the last four years. Dr. Banerjee directs the Critical Gender, Intersectionality, and Migration Research Group at the University of Calgary, and her research is funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada, and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).
