Nandita Sharma
Professor of Racism, Migration and Transnationalism in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
“Not only for the sake of those of us classified as migrants, but those of us classified as citizens, acting through the principle of planetary solidarity, we can have a better world. One built on the principles of equality, connectedness, and the refusal to have anyone's life be cheapened and threatened by border controls. Only in such a world do we stand a chance at facing the great challenges that threaten our very existence on this great big blue marble of ours.”
Biography
Nandita Sharma is a Professor of Racism, Migration and Transnationalism in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests address themes of human migration, migrant labor, nation-state power, racism and nationalism, and processes of identification and self-understanding. Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is engaged with, including No Borders movements and those struggling for the commons. Amongst her publications are the books, Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Duke University Press, 2020); Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006); and a special issue of the journal Refuge, “No Borders: A Practical Response to State Controls on People’s Migration," which she co-edited. Sharma received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto.