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I am an Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social and Political Sciences. At the core of my research is an intellectual exploration of how the concepts of social reproduction and care labour underpin the three domains of empirical inquiry I pursue: i) Ethiopian migration ii) Social policy interventions for poor women in India and iii) Queer perspectives on migration and care. The theoretical frameworks I have developed in these three domains explicitly link social reproduction to the analysis of intersectionality, i.e., of multiple categories of social difference, such as gender, class, race, ethnicity, citizenship and sexuality. By focusing on these linkages, my work illuminates disaggregated dimensions of disadvantage that are not readily apparent in the conventional feminist conceptualisation of social reproduction.