Dr Kanwal Mand

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH

Email: K.Mand@brighton.ac.uk

Profile

Kanwal completed a BA in English literature, an MA in Culture, Race, Difference at the University of Sussex in 1997, and, in 2003, completed a PhD in Social Anthropology at Sussex. She has worked as a Research Assistant at the Ethnicity and Social Policy Research Centre (University of Bradford) and as a Research Fellow at the Families and Social Capital Reasearch ESRC Centre (London South Bank University). Prior to joining the University of Brighton she held the position of Research Fellow on an AHRC funded research project entitled 'Home and Away: Experiences and Representations of transnational South Asian Children'.

Research interests

Kanwal's doctoral thesis examined the relationship between marriage, migration and the creation and establishment of transnational Punjabi households spanning Tanzania, Indian Punjab and London. She was able to further her interests in gender and generation as it intersects with migration at South Bank University where she went on to explore elderly migrants and their networks in London and the subcontinent. In 2006 along with Dr Katy Gardner Kanwal worked on an AHRC-funded project that explored the construction of childhood across places and children's experiences of mobility. Her work touches on issues concerning social identities informed by notions concerning race, gender, and ethnicity and how these relate to place.

• The life course (especially childhood)
• Gender
• Race and Ethnicity
• Transnational Migration and Diaspora
• Rituals
• Marriage
• Consumption
• Research Methodologies

Community and business

An exhibition of children's art, arising from Kanwal's research with children of Bangladeshi heritage, has been on display at the V&A Museum of Childhood. A report of this can be read on BBC online:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7898294.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7898256.stm

Teaching

Lectures for SS107 (UCH and Falmer); SS217 (UCH and Falmer); SS253 (UCH and Falmer)

Seminars for SS103 (Falmer); SS238 (Falmer); SS217 (Falmer); SS253 (Falmer); SS344 (Falmer); SS365(Falmer); SS379 (Falmer).

Selected publications

2010: "I've got two houses, one in Bangladesh, one in London. Everybody has!" Home, locality and belonging(s) in the east End', in Childhood 17 (2) 273-287.

2010: 'Transnational Sikh women's working lives: place and the life course', in Jakobsh, D (ed) Women in Sikhism: An Exploration. New Delhi: Oxford University.

2008: 'Marriage and migration through the life course: experiences of widowhood, separation and divorce amongst transnational Sikh women', in Palriwala, R and Uberoi, P (eds) Marriage Migration and Gender. New Delhi: Sage.

2008: 'Who Cares? "External", "Internal" and "Mediator" Debates about South Asian Elders' Needs', pp. 187-202 in Grillo, R (ed) The Family in Question. Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam.

2007: 'Ambivalent positions: 'Ethnicity and working in our "own communities"', in Gillies, V. and Lucey, H (eds.) Power, Knowledge and the Academy: Exploring the Institutional and Personal Dynamics of Research. London: Palgrave (co-written with Dr Susie Weller).

2006: 'Story telling and Social Capital by transmigrant Sikh men and women', in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Special Issue on Social capital, migration and transnational Families, Vol 29, no 6, pp.1057-107.

2006: 'Friendship and Elderly South Asian Women', in Community, Work and Family. Vol 9:3, pp.309-324.

2002: 'Place, gender and power in transnational Sikh marriages', in Global Networks: a Journal of Transnational Affairs, vol 2, no.3.