https://alihbhagat.com Ali H. Bhagat Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:22:56 +0000 https://alihbhagat.com en https://alihbhagat.com/About Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:22:55 +0000 Ali H. Bhagat https://alihbhagat.com/About Ali H. Bhagat<img width="768" height="1024" width_o="768" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/da7831749d30d67ff51a4a1a2d3e2dd01d8662681e27a585f28f315071873912/about-1.jpeg" data-mid="79451712" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/da7831749d30d67ff51a4a1a2d3e2dd01d8662681e27a585f28f315071873912/about-1.jpeg" /> ︎ International Political Economy︎ Race, Class, Sexuality︎ Migration and Refugee Policy As of 2023, I have started a new position at Simon Fraser University at the School of Public Policy in Downtown Vancouver. I am also affiliated with the Re: Structure Lab Previous to this I held tenure-track positions in Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University and in the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester.&nbsp; In my new position I research and teach on topics concerning refugee and migration policy in Canada and the World, qualtiative research methods, racial equity, and queer politics. In general, I am interested in the political economy of labour, finance, and racial capitalism. My new book Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism is now out with Cornell Press. I am currently working on two SSHRC-funded research projects. The first is a SSHRC Insight Development grant for which I am the principal investigator titled ‘Mapping Queer&nbsp; Refugee Lifepaths’. The second I am co-investigator along with Genevieve LeBaron (PI) and Kam Phung which is titled ‘The Effectivenss of Worker-Driven Alternatives to Corporate Social Responsibility in Governing Global Supply Chains’. I received my PhD in Political Studies from Queen’s University (Fields: IR and Comparative), where my research on forced displacement was informed by extensive, fieldwork in Paris and Nairobi. The project was funded by IDRC, the W.C Good Memorial Fellowship, and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship.&nbsp; EMAIL &nbsp; &nbsp; https://alihbhagat.com/Research Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:22:56 +0000 Ali H. Bhagat https://alihbhagat.com/Research Research Book&nbsp; Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (2024 - Cornell University Press) Order paperback or hardcover&nbsp;here My book aims to answer a relatively straightforward question: how are refugees governed under capitalism in this heightened moment of global displacement? To answer this question, I take a dual case study approach by exploring three dimensions of refugee survival: shelter, work, and political belonging in Paris and Nairobi. In doing this, my book attempts to make sense of a global refugee regime that treats refugees as passive recipients of aid amidst widespread xenophobia and anti-migrant sentiment in the European Union and East Africa. As such, I aim to understand the interrelated and overlapping features of refugee governance in seemingly disparate places. This book engages with theories of racial capitalism, social reproduction, and labour politics in relation to welfare retrenchment, right-wing populism, and everyday forms of exclusion.&nbsp; Peer Reviewed Articles 2026 Feldman, T., &amp; Bhagat, A. “Queer Migrant Lifepaths: Emigration trends in Immigration Law Practice”. Southwestern Law Review.2026 Alami, I., Bhagat, A., &amp; Guermond, V. “Towards an IPE of Raced Finance”. Review of International Political Economy.2025 Bhagat, A., &amp; Phillips, R. “Financing the Border: Racial Capitalism, Migration, and the Practices of the Canadian State”. Review of International Political Economy.2025 Bhagat, A. “Toward Global Displacement Studies?”. Refugee Survey Quarterly.2025 Bhagat, A. “Refugee governance under racial captialism: exclusion and extraction in the age of ongoing crisis”. Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context.2023 Bhagat, A. “Queer Global Displacement: Social Reproduction, Refugee Survival and Organized Abandonment in Nairobi, Cape Town, and Paris”. Antipode https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12933 2022 Bhagat, A., &amp; Phillips, R. “The Techfare State: Debt, Discipline, and Accelerate Neoliberalism”. New Political Economyhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2022.2147494?src=Bhagat, A.&nbsp; “Governing Refugees in Raced Markets: Displacement and Disposability from Europe’s Frontier to the Streets of Paris”. Review of International Political Economy. 29 (3): 955-978. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09692290.2020.1844781 2021 Bhagat, A.&nbsp; “Displacement in ‘Actually Existing’ Racial Neoliberalism: Refugee Governance in Paris”. Urban Geography. 42 (5): 635-653. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02723638.2019.1659689Bhagat, A. “Experimental Financial Inclusion as Refugee Management: Shelter Insecurities at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Kenya”. International Journal of Housing Policy.&nbsp;21 (4): 484-504.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19491247.2020.1818051 2020 Bhagat, A and Roderick, L. “Banking on Refugees: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Fintech Era.” Environment and Planning A. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X20904070 (Contribution: 50 percent) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308518X20904070 2019 Bhagat, A. “Governing Refugee Disposability: Neoliberalism and Survival in Nairobi” New Political Economy: 25:3 pp. 439-452. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13563467.2019.1598963 Bhagat, A and Soederberg, S. “Placing Refugees in Authoritarian Neoliberalism: Reflections from Berlin and Paris.” South Atlantic Quarterly:&nbsp; Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore (eds.):&nbsp; Spring 118:2 (Contribution: 50 percent) https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article-abstract/118/2/421/138020/Placing-Refugees-in-Authoritarian-Neoliberalism 2018 Bhagat, A.“Queer Necropolitics of Forced Displacement: Cyclical Violence in the African Context.” Sexualities: 23:3 pp. 351-375 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460718797258 Bhagat, A. “Forced (Queer) Migration and Everyday Violence: The Geographies of Life, Death, and Access in Cape Town.” Geoforum: 89 (February) pp. 155-163 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016718517302294 Book Chapters 2026 LeBaron, G.,&amp; Bhagat, A. Race, Colonialism, and Modern Slavery. The Modern World After Colonialism. Remaking the Social Sciences. Sage 2026 Burlin, A., &amp; Bhagat, A.&nbsp; (in press). “Intersectionality and Internal Displacement”. Oxford Handbook on Internally Displaced Persons. Oxford University Press. 2025 Bhagat, A. (in press). “Queer refugees in the City”. Oxford Handbook on Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, &amp; Sexuality. Oxford University Press.2023 Bhagat, A. “Chapter 13: The Political Economy of Development”. Global Political Economy 7th edition. Oxford University Press. 2020 Bhagat, A., &amp; Soederberg, S. (In press) “Chapter 14: The political economy of displacement governance: the case of refugees in the European Union”. In Bill Dunn (eds). A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy. Edward Elgar: London 2018 Bhagat, A, Sharma, S, and Tawakkol, L. (In press) “Governing the Displaced: Contradictory Constellations of Actors, Ideas, and Strategies.” In Mike Dolton, Pete Adey, Janet Bowsted Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Alasdair Pinkerton and Aysha Siddiqi (eds.). Handbook of Displacement. Palgrave: London. (Contribution: 33 percent) 2016 Davids, D., Verway, L., Bhagat, A., and Onuoha, G. “Community Advice Offices: Taking Charge in Marginalized Communities” in Daniel Plaatjies, Charles Hongoro, Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, Thenjiwe Meyiwa and Muxe Nkondo (eds). State of the Nation 2016 (Chapter 11). HSRC Press: Pretoria (Contribution: 25 percent) Publications in Progress2026 Bhagat, A., &amp; Micinski, N. (to be submitted). “Global Displacement in Global Political Economy”. World Development (invited) 2026 Bhagat, A., Soederberg, S., &amp; Walkoswki J. (under review)“Governing migrant detention: Financing the detention spectrum in the European Union. European Journal of International Relations.&nbsp; 2026 Bhagat, A. (under review). “Border infrastructures under Racial Capitalism: Detention, Deportation, and Abandonment in South Africa.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2026 LeBaron,G., &amp; Bhagat, A. (under review). “How the idea of ‘modern slavery’ has shaped contemporary global supply chain governance”. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space (invited) https://alihbhagat.com/Commentary Wed, 05 Aug 2020 14:22:56 +0000 Ali H. Bhagat https://alihbhagat.com/Commentary Public Engagement Temporary Foreign Workers in British Columbia’s Agricultural Industry: Learning from Lived Experience. Breaking Barriers Policy Report, November 2025. LA Fires a Cautionary Tale for Canada. Policy Options, February 2025. Canada’s implementing a forced labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers? Policy Options, with Genevieve LeBaron and Judy Fudge, November 2024 Who benefits from Bank of Canada Interest Rate Hikes? Toronto Star with Marc Calabretta, September 2022https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/08/30/who-benefits-from-bank-of-canada-interest-rate-hikes.html Defunding the City? Canada’s municipal budgeting woes Toronto Star with Harrison Ellis, February 2023 https://thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2023/02/06/defunding-the-city-canadas-municipal-budgeting-woes.html Decentering the Refugee Crisis: Racialized Displacement in Berlin and Paris – Part 1: Global and Regional Scales. SPERI Blog, January 2020, with Susanne Soederberg.http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2020/01/07/decentering-the-refugee-crisis-racialized-displacement-in-berlin-and-paris-part-1-global-and-regional-scales/ Decentering the Refugee Crisis: Racialized Displacement in Berlin and Paris – Part 2: Urban Scale.&nbsp;SPERI Blog, January 2020, with Susanne Soederberg.&nbsp;http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2020/01/09/decentering-the-refugee-crisis-racialized-displacement-in-berlin-and-paris-part-2-urban-scale/ Wildfires foreshadow the Looming Crisis of Internal Displacement&nbsp; The Globe and Mail, August 2024https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-wildfires-foreshadow-the-looming-crisis-of-internal-displacement/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter Rich Countries are paying poorer ones to manage their refugee crises: 3 reasons this is dangerous The Conversation with Genevieve LeBaron, August 2024https://theconversation.com/rich-countries-are-paying-poorer-ones-to-manage-their-refugee-crises-3-reasons-this-is-dangerous-235029 Experimental Neoliberalism and Refugee Survival in Kenya.&nbsp;Review of African Political Economy, December 2019http://roape.net/2019/12/03/experimental-neoliberalism-and-refugee-survival-in-kenya/ The Techfare State: The ‘New’ Face of Neoliberal State Regulation. Developing Economics, June, 2021, with Rachel Phillipshttps://developingeconomics.org/2021/06/15/the-techfare-state-the-new-face-of-neoliberal-state-regulation/ Covid-19 Capitalism in Raced Markets. SAIS Journal of Global Affairs. Interview alongside Robbie Shilliam.&nbsp;https://www.saisjournal.eu/article/65-COVID-19-Capitalism-in-Raced-Markets.cfm