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A talk by NANDITA SHARMA

Presented by GEOGRADS and GUSS as part of the Geography, Planning, and Environment Departmental Seminar Series

Nandita Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is active in, including No Borders movements and those struggling for the commons.

Nandita is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i. Her book, "Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2006), examines the importance of nationalist renditions of home, community and society to the indenturing of hundreds of thousands of people classified as non-immigrant workers.

Nandita has long been active in feminist, anti-racist and migrants’ rights movements that challenge the legitimacy of national border controls with their regimes of citizenship and also work to ensure that everyone has the ability to both “stay” and to “move” as they so desire.

In her talk, Nandita will discuss the politics of the state category of "migrant workers", the politics of "anti-trafficking campaigns", and the politics of seeing all "non-natives" as "colonizers".

*a light lunch will be provided!