Laavanya Kathiravelu

Professor - Department of Sociology and Human Geography

Publications

Book

1. Kathiravelu, L., (2016) Migrant Dubai: low wage workers and the construction of a Global City. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI 10.1057/9781137450180

Journal Articles (selected)

1. Kathiravelu, L. (2024). Immigration without diversity: the invisible second generation in Singapore. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(6), 1253–1270. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2436079
2. Kathiravelu, L., & Dorairajoo, S. (2024). Locating invisible privilege in Asia: Conceptual travel and contextual significance. Current Sociology, 72(5): 798-813. https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921221132317
3. Kathiravelu, L and Pandian S (2024) “It’s purely mutual respect”: Cross-cultural taboos and the everyday reproduction of Singaporean nationalism, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 24(2): 129-144 https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12416
4. Kathiravelu, L (2022) Conceptualizing migration beyond the “West”: a view from Asia, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46 (8): 1669–1673 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2022.2141064
5. Jaafar Alloul, Laavanya Kathiravelu "Constructing Qatari Citizenship in the Shadow of the World Cup," Middle East Report 304 (Fall 2022).
6. Ho, E., Kathiravelu, L, (2022) “More than race: a comparative analysis of “new” Indian and Chinese migration in Singapore, Race and Ethnic Studies 45 (4): 636-655. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2021.1924391.
7. Kathiravelu, L. (2021). Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities.’ Mobilities, 16(5): 645–655. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1981546
8. Kathiravelu, L., Bunnell, T., (2018) “Introduction: Urban Friendship Networks: Affective ngotiations and potentialities of care.” Urban Studies 55(3): 491-504. doi.org/10.1177/0042098017737281
9. Kathiravelu, L., (2012), “Social Networks in Dubai: Informal Solidarities in an Uncaring State” in Journal of Intercultural Studies, Issue 33(1): 103-119. DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2012.633319 

Book Chapters (selected)

1. Kathiravelu, L., (2022) “Doubly minoritized: Indianness in Singapore and xenophobia as racism”. In Paul, Kristian-Marc et al (eds) Brown is Redacted. Singapore: Ethos Books.
2. Aquino, K., Kathiravelu, L., Mitchell, E (2022) “Locating Race in Migration and Diversity Studies” in Scholten, Peter (ed) Introduction to Migration Studies. Rotterdam: IMISCO (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe).
3. Kathiravelu, L., (2020) “Bodies that don’t matter, but labour that does: The low wage male migrant in Singapore and Dubai” in Natalie Boero and Kate Mason (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of the Body and Embodiment,1-17. Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190842475.013.26
4. Kathiravelu, L., (2020) “What kind of Indian are you? Frictions and fractures between Singaporean Indians and foreign-born NRIs”. In Terence Chong (ed) Navigating Differences: Integration in Singapore, 110-125. Singapore: ISEAS (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies) Press.
5. Kathiravelu, L., (2019) “Whose Justice and for whom? Low wage migrants, authoritarian regimes and nations of what is fair” in Sandra Brunnegger (ed) Everyday Justice, 58-79. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI:10.1017/9781108763530
6. Kathiravelu, L., *Wong, G., (2018) “Marginalised Migrants and Urbanisation in Southeast Asia”. In Rita Padawangi (ed) Handbook of Urbanisation in Southeast Asia, 146-156. London and New York: Routledge
7. Kathiravelu, L., (2017) ‘Rethinking Race: beyond the CMIO categorisations’, Loh Kah Seng, Thum Ping Tjin, Jack Chia (ed), Living With Myths in Singapore, 159-168. Singapore: Select Books.