Pallavi Banerjee is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and a Research Excellence Chair at the University of Calgary. Her research is situated at the intersections of immigration, gender, families, unpaid and paid labour, intersectionality, and transnationalism. She is the author of the award-winning book The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failures of Dependent-Visa Policy published in March 2022 by New York University Press.  She has also written opinion-pieces in venues such as The Globe and Mail, The Conversations and Ms. Magazine and her research has been cited widely in the media in the U.S., Canada, and India.  She directs the Critical Gender, Intersectionality and Migration Research Group at the University of Calgary, and her research is supported by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). She joined the Carework Network Steering Committee in 2020.

Select Publications:

Banerjee, Pallavi. The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program. March 2022, New York, NY, New York University Press. 

Banerjee, Pallavi, Chetna Khandelwal, Megha Sanyal. 2022. “Deep Care: The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Work of Marginal Feminist Organizing and Resistance in India.” Gender, Work and Organization, 1– 26.

Banerjee, Pallavi., Chacko, Soulit., & Korsha, Souzan. 2022. “Toll of the Covid-19 pandemic on the primary caregiver in Yazidi refugee families in Canada: A feminist refugee epistemological analysis.” Studies in Social Justice, 16(1), 33-53.