Director
Dr Kavita Datta is a Reader in the School of Geography. Her research is in Development Geography, with a particular interest in transnational migration from the global South to the North. This interest has been developed in a series of independent and collaborative projects investigating the changing nature, politics and sensibilities of work and transnational migration to global cities like London and exploring how and why ‘new’ migrants have come to dominate low-paid work here; the everyday financial practices of new migrant communities which are partly shaped by exclusion from the financial fabric of London but also a preference for alternative more socially inscribed ways of ‘doing finance’ and the scale and scope of Muslim migrants’ philanthropic networks in London in a post-recessionary context. She has published widely combining diverse theoretical fields and fieldwork. A full list of her publications can be found here. She welcomes applications from doctoral students wishing to work on migration, development and finance.
