Home and Away: reflections on an ongoing research project with Bangladeshi children in transnational families

03/06/2008 19:06

6 MAR -

By Kanwal Mand, who obtained a PhD in Social Anthropology in 2004 (Sussex), where she examined the relationship between marriage, migration in the creation and establishment of transnational Punjabi households, spanning Tanzania, Indian Punjab and London. She expanded her interest in transnational families during her work as a Research Fellow at the Families and Social Capital Research ESRC Centre (London South Bank University). At present she is working on an AHRC funded research project entitled 'Home and Away: Experiences and Representations of transnational South Asian Children'.