Nasreen Akhter
Visiting Research Fellow

Research

Research Interests

• Migration and Transnationalism
• Gender
• Intersectionality
• Class, Capital and Religious mobility
• South Asia
• Material Culture 

Ms Nasreen Akhter - all publications

Book

Akhter, N. (2025) “Bangladeshi Women and Transnational Mobility: Middle-Class Aspirations and Migration in the UK”, Routledge (South Asia Series), UK. (Accepted; contract signed)

Journal Article

• Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akter, N., Ferdous, R., Foisal, S. & Hudson, R. Territorial agglomeration and industrial symbiosis: Sitakunda-Bhatiary, Bangladesh, as a secondary processing complex. Economic Geography. 2012;88:37-58.
• Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akhtar, N. & Ferdous, R. Following things of rubbish value: end-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. Geoforum. 2010;41:846-854

• Akhter, N. Understanding ‘Habitus’: An analytical perspective from change and continuity. The Chittagong University Journal of Social Sciences. 2015; XXIX (1):141-150 

Chapter in book

• Crang, M., Gregson, N., Ahamed, F., Ferdous, R. & Akhter, N. Death, the Phoenix and Pandora: transforming things and values in Bangladesh. In: Alexander, C. & Reno, J. Economies of Recycling: The global transformation of materials, values and social relations. London: Zed Books; 2012:59-75.