Sujata Ramachandran
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sujata Ramachandran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sujata |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramachandran |
| SIGNATURE | RAMACHANDRAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Balsillie School of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6149-6754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remittance Transfers, Digitalisation and the Ghana–Canada Migration Corridor
Migrant remittances constitute a vital financial resource that supports the well-being of recipient households and communities, financing sustainable development in the Global South. Yet, remittance flows are limited by fragmentation in financial systems infrastructure and regulatory frameworks across sending and receiving countries, evidenced by the high transaction costs of remitting to sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, these limitations drive …
New Directions in South-South Migration
The punitive gap
The creation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is indicative of the sharpening tensions surrounding citizenship, belonging and integration in India. Officially aimed at demarcating the “legitimate citizens”, its implementation is believed to have resulted in the partial exclusion of the so-called “Doubtful Voters” and denationalisation of the “illegitimate residents”. These frictions associated with citizenship identity and righ…
Food security, equitable development and South–South migration
‘The nexus between migration and food security remains a peripheral and much-neglected concern’ In this Commentary, we reflect on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Food security refers to the condition where individuals, households, and communities have both physical and economic access to an adequate quantity and quality of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and act…
Mediating Xenophobia in Africa
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
Security Risk and Xenophobia in the Urban Informal Sector
Whenever there are violent attacks on refugee and migrant businesses in South Africa's informal sector, politicians, officials and commissions of enquiry deny that xenophobia is a driving force or indeed exists at all in the county. A new strain of nativist research in South Africa does not deny the existence of xenophobia but argues that it is an insignificant factor in the violence. It is argued that because South African and non-South African …
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
The case-study literature on refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa is dominated by an overwhelming focus on the problems they face and their marginalised existence, reinforcing an image of victimhood, exploitation and vulnerability. In this paper, we seek to broaden the image of refugees and their economic impacts beyond a narrow focus on their marginal status and vulnerable position. They are viewed here as dynamic agents with skills and c…
Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa
Migrant Entrepreneurship Collective Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa
Devouring the Map
Xenophobia, International Migration and Development
Migration from developing to developed countries has been accompanied by growing resentment of immigrants and refugees. While xenophobic sentiment continues to be strongly entrenched in developed countries, it is increasingly prevalent in developing countries as well. This paper examines the rise of xenophobic sentiment and action in India and South Africa. The response of the state to xenophobic violence in each jurisdiction is considered. In ea…
‘There are many Bangladeshis in New Delhi, but . . .’
Thanks to scholars placed both within and outside geography, real efforts have been made of late to uncover and engage with the voices of marginalised groups. While population geographers have furnished a remarkable array of methodological devices to explore migrants' being and consciousness, feminist geographers have challenged the established conceptual framework of geographical field research by underscoring the significance of self‐reflexivit…
“Operation Pushback”
The remarkable ease with which the xenophobic tenor of the Hindu Right nationalist organizations or Sangh Parivar found favour with many privileged Indians in the early 1990s cannot be easily or comfortably discounted. Indeed, it even perniciously swayed a moderate secular central government led by the long dominant Congress Party. By mid–1992, when Sangh Parivar made the manifold dangers of the unsanctioned immigration by growing numbers of pove…
Of boundaries and border crossings
Much has been written on Hindu nationalism in the past few years. Indeed, the rapid ascendancy of the Hindu Right has been the focus of attention of numerous scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. What remains neglected thus far is the role of recent migrations from Bangladesh, increasingly characterized in popular parlance as 'infiltration'. The present paper aims to rectify this situation. Applying James Scott's framework on social domina…
The Fragmented Island
This article examines the role of culture in the ethnic conflict and strife in Sri Lanka. The general aim is to achieve an understanding of the nationalist process, the force of nationalist ideas and traditions in motivating action-action that is often violent and intolerant-and to demonstrate the value of a cultural approach to the understanding of modern societies. Culture has been examined in two ways here, namely, the dramaturgic approach to …
Of boundaries and border crossings
Much has been written on Hindu nationalism in the past few years. Indeed, the rapid ascendancy of the Hindu Right has been the focus of attention of numerous scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. What remains neglected thus far is the role of recent migrations from Bangladesh, increasingly characterized in popular parlance as 'infiltration'. The present paper aims to rectify this situation. Applying James Scott's framework on social domina…
Xenophobia, International Migration and Development
Migration from developing to developed countries has been accompanied by growing resentment of immigrants and refugees. While xenophobic sentiment continues to be strongly entrenched in developed countries, it is increasingly prevalent in developing countries as well. This paper examines the rise of xenophobic sentiment and action in India and South Africa. The response of the state to xenophobic violence in each jurisdiction is considered. In ea…
The punitive gap
The creation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is indicative of the sharpening tensions surrounding citizenship, belonging and integration in India. Officially aimed at demarcating the “legitimate citizens”, its implementation is believed to have resulted in the partial exclusion of the so-called “Doubtful Voters” and denationalisation of the “illegitimate residents”. These frictions associated with citizenship identity and righ…
Food security, equitable development and South–South migration
‘The nexus between migration and food security remains a peripheral and much-neglected concern’ In this Commentary, we reflect on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Food security refers to the condition where individuals, households, and communities have both physical and economic access to an adequate quantity and quality of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and act…
The Fragmented Island
This article examines the role of culture in the ethnic conflict and strife in Sri Lanka. The general aim is to achieve an understanding of the nationalist process, the force of nationalist ideas and traditions in motivating action-action that is often violent and intolerant-and to demonstrate the value of a cultural approach to the understanding of modern societies. Culture has been examined in two ways here, namely, the dramaturgic approach to …
Of boundaries and border crossings
Much has been written on Hindu nationalism in the past few years. Indeed, the rapid ascendancy of the Hindu Right has been the focus of attention of numerous scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. What remains neglected thus far is the role of recent migrations from Bangladesh, increasingly characterized in popular parlance as 'infiltration'. The present paper aims to rectify this situation. Applying James Scott's framework on social domina…
“Operation Pushback”
The remarkable ease with which the xenophobic tenor of the Hindu Right nationalist organizations or Sangh Parivar found favour with many privileged Indians in the early 1990s cannot be easily or comfortably discounted. Indeed, it even perniciously swayed a moderate secular central government led by the long dominant Congress Party. By mid–1992, when Sangh Parivar made the manifold dangers of the unsanctioned immigration by growing numbers of pove…
‘There are many Bangladeshis in New Delhi, but . . .’
Thanks to scholars placed both within and outside geography, real efforts have been made of late to uncover and engage with the voices of marginalised groups. While population geographers have furnished a remarkable array of methodological devices to explore migrants' being and consciousness, feminist geographers have challenged the established conceptual framework of geographical field research by underscoring the significance of self‐reflexivit…
Xenophobia, International Migration and Development
Migration from developing to developed countries has been accompanied by growing resentment of immigrants and refugees. While xenophobic sentiment continues to be strongly entrenched in developed countries, it is increasingly prevalent in developing countries as well. This paper examines the rise of xenophobic sentiment and action in India and South Africa. The response of the state to xenophobic violence in each jurisdiction is considered. In ea…
Devouring the Map
Migrant Entrepreneurship Collective Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa
Immigrant Exclusion and Insecurity in Africa
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
Security Risk and Xenophobia in the Urban Informal Sector
Whenever there are violent attacks on refugee and migrant businesses in South Africa's informal sector, politicians, officials and commissions of enquiry deny that xenophobia is a driving force or indeed exists at all in the county. A new strain of nativist research in South Africa does not deny the existence of xenophobia but argues that it is an insignificant factor in the violence. It is argued that because South African and non-South African …
Refugee Entrepreneurial Economies in Urban South Africa
The case-study literature on refugees and asylum-seekers in South Africa is dominated by an overwhelming focus on the problems they face and their marginalised existence, reinforcing an image of victimhood, exploitation and vulnerability. In this paper, we seek to broaden the image of refugees and their economic impacts beyond a narrow focus on their marginal status and vulnerable position. They are viewed here as dynamic agents with skills and c…
Mediating Xenophobia in Africa
Food security, equitable development and South–South migration
‘The nexus between migration and food security remains a peripheral and much-neglected concern’ In this Commentary, we reflect on recent policy-related and research moves to connect migration with food security. Food security refers to the condition where individuals, households, and communities have both physical and economic access to an adequate quantity and quality of food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for a healthy and act…
The punitive gap
The creation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam is indicative of the sharpening tensions surrounding citizenship, belonging and integration in India. Officially aimed at demarcating the “legitimate citizens”, its implementation is believed to have resulted in the partial exclusion of the so-called “Doubtful Voters” and denationalisation of the “illegitimate residents”. These frictions associated with citizenship identity and righ…
New Directions in South-South Migration
Remittance Transfers, Digitalisation and the Ghana–Canada Migration Corridor
Migrant remittances constitute a vital financial resource that supports the well-being of recipient households and communities, financing sustainable development in the Global South. Yet, remittance flows are limited by fragmentation in financial systems infrastructure and regulatory frameworks across sending and receiving countries, evidenced by the high transaction costs of remitting to sub-Saharan Africa. Consequently, these limitations drive …
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