Session Lead

Kavita Datta is Professor of Development Geography and Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary University of London.  Her research spans migration studies coalescing around issues of money, food and gender. With a long-standing interest in remittance studies, Kavita’s recent work has focused on the food-migration nexus, exploring food cultures and insecurities among migrant communities, and food remittances in contexts of severe acute malnutrition. Her current project, Remitting for Resilience, is extending this interest, interrogating the potential role of ‘green remittances’ in climate adaptation and food security. She deploys gendered intersectional perspectives to better understand diverse aspects of transnational mobility. Her research is based in the UK, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Her books include Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour and Migrants and their Money: Surviving Financial Exclusion in London. Kavita is co-editor of the Elgar Companion on Migration and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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