Laavanya Kathiravelu

Happy to share that a paper that’s been in the works for a while has just been accepted at International Migration Review! 🎉 Co-written @laavy_k , Laavanya’s contribution to this work has been immense, and I’m grateful for the collaboration. Will share more details soon!

It’s official - I’m now full Professor @UniOslo_SVfak 🥳

📢 Applications are now open for the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS Ph.D. Scholarship Program “Uncertainty”! 📚 The program includes scholarships for different stages of Ph.D. research ⏳Application deadline: 30 June 2025 All the details and how to apply: zeit-stiftung.de/en/topics/deta…

@Datta_msca @soziologieUniBi @unibielefeld Look forward to reading this @Datta_msca

Scholars working in Asia, please share widely & apply! Deadline next week kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

A call by Singaporean academics for academic freedom in local universities - not a new issue but one that urgently needs to be addressed with growing clampdowns on freedom worldwide. academia.sg/editorials/on-…

#ERSNew🐣 🔓 @laavy_k 's pioneer study deals with the "invisible" second generation in Singapore. This case study demonstrates that even when ethnoracial identity is not marked as a form of difference, inclusion into the framework of the nation can be fraught. Full article: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… And here is a link to the full paper.

First article about the second generation in Singapore - a country with about 40% foreign born. My article shows that the ethnoracial dynamics of inter-Asian assimilation and integration here are different to those discussed in most research on N America and Europe. @ERSjournal

@PeichiaLan @kimyeminjeong @ntu_sociology @SDSU @YukWah_Chan @CityUHongKong #ERSSpecialIssue: The Emerging Second Generation in Asia Immigration without Diversity: The invisible #SecondGeneration in #Singapore Author: Laavanya Kathiravelu @laavy_k Nanyang Technological University @NTUsg Coming soon! #Race, #Nationalism, #Ethnicity, #Citizenship

@yaotaili @GRAPHhk Congrats! Looking forward to reading this!

This book is dedicated to all in resistance. Through comparative case studies on Hong Kong, Lebanon, Iraq, and Taiwan, we trace both universal and localized aspects of the material & digital form of protest walls. I will also share brief findings this Fri/Sat at @GRAPHhk seminar

If my entire career of research, writing, and teaching only convinces people of one thing, I want it to be how wrongheaded and dangerous this mentality is

Blackface in Singapore again. We need to teach the history and politics of racism in public schools.

KU Leuven is hiring an anthropologist with regional expertise in Asia. Please see the call below, circulate widely, and apply! The call welcomes candidates with undergraduate/ postgraduates degrees obtained in Asia. Deadline, 28 February 2025 kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Got an accept decision from @ERSjournal for my paper “Immigration without Diversity: The invisible second generation in Singapore”!! Excited to publish this first paper from my research with 2nd gen/ children of Asian migrants in Singapore. Watch this space!

Academic colleagues and IIM alumni, please consider signing the statement in support of Prof. Deepak Malghan. His advocacy for inclusion at IIMs has influenced my, and others' work on caste. It earned him a demotion and harassment. For details, see: forms.gle/dM3VgxQpQxybbH…

You mean mass redundancies, the evisceration of entire disciplines, rampant managerialism, and the fanatic embrace of a profit-driven model of scholarship haven't fostered a climate of open inquiry and big ideas? Who could've known?! 🤷‍♂️ theguardian.com/australia-news…

This study in @Nature addresses an important issue but erases the discrimination experienced by Asians in academia by lumping them in with white academics. And in this way, it elegantly pulls a racism while pointing out racism (1/7) nature.com/articles/s4156…

scmp.com/week-asia/life… People are still doing Blackface in multiracial Singapore today. I comment that without strong legal deterrence this type of reinforcement of power inequalities between racial groups will continue. Thanks to @kimberlylimmy for quoting local activists.