Biography
I obtained my PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex (School of Global Studies), UK, as a Commonwealth Scholar, under the supervision of Professors Raminder Kaur and Filippo Osella, titled: (Re)Making Lives: An Intersectional Analysis of Bangladeshi Migrant Women in the UK. My doctoral research examined the migration trajectories and complexities involved in (re)making the lives of Bangladeshi migrant women in the UK, with a focus on their intersectional experiences of mobility, belonging, and structural constraints. I successfully defended my thesis without correction, with Professor Ben Rogaly (University of Sussex) and Professor José Mapril (Nova University of Lisbon) as my external examiners. Currently, I am working on a monograph based on my PhD thesis, Bangladeshi Women and Transnational Mobility: Middle-Class Aspirations and Migration in the UK, under contract with Routledge, which further deepens my commitment to this field of inquiry.
My research interests orbit around interconnected topics such as migration, diaspora, and transnationalism; intersectionality and class formation and reproduction, particularly in/from the Global South; gender across cultures; qualitative research methodology and material culture.
I currently hold a faculty position in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Prior to this, I worked as a lecturer and assistant professor at the same institution. I completed my second MRsc degree in social anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, UK, under the Commonwealth Scholarship.
Role
Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology
School of Global Studies.
Contact Nasreen Akhter: N.Akhter@sussex.ac.uk; nasreen.akhter@cu.ac.bd