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Parvati Raghuram is lecturer in geography at The Open University.

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And the award goes to...Photos.com

By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

03 March 2009

In the wake of Oscar success, the film Slumdog Millionaire provokes questions of national identity.  Read more : And the award goes to...

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By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

31 December 2008

Parvati Raghuram explains why she's uneasy at the media response to the bombings in Mumbai  Read more : The Mumbai bomb attacks

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‘We live in a democracy’ Jupiter Images

By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

25 November 2008

Watch democracy at work, as the public kept voting to keep John Sergeant in Strictly Come Dancing  Read more : ‘We live in a democracy’

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The Asian doctors who shaped the NHSBBC

By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

02 July 2008

A very British institution - but one shaped by migrant labour. Meet the doctors who shaped the NHS  Read more : The Asian doctors who shaped the NHS

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By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

02 May 2008

Why do teachers get paid so much less than some other professionals?  Read more : Valuing teachers

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What exactly does 'worthy' look like?Jupiter Images

By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

26 February 2008

It might be useful to remind ourselves of the qualities that never come to be calculated when we take stock of our own and others’...  Read more : What exactly does 'worthy' look like?

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How national is the NHS?Production team

By Dr Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)

30 June 2006

Parvati Raghuram traces the links between the NHS waiting lists and health care crises elsewhere  Read more : How national is the NHS?

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Raghuram, Parvati (2012). Global care, local configurations: challenges to conceptualizations of care. Global Networks, 12(2), pp. 155–174.

Bornat, Joanna; Raghuram, Parvati and Henry, Leroi (2011). Geriatric medicine and the management of transitions into old age: the hospital bed as a site of spatial practice. Area, 43(4), pp. 430–437.

Raghuram, Parvati and Piper, Nicola (2011). Women and migration in Asia – eroding borders, new fixities. In: Wastl-Walter, Doris ed. The Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 529–548.

Bornat, Joanna; Henry, Leroi and Raghuram, Parvati (2011). The making of careers, the making of a discipline: luck and chance in migrant careers in geriatric medicine. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 78(3), pp. 342–350.

Raghuram, Parvati; Bornat, Joanna and Henry, Leroi (2011). The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK. Sociology of Health & Illness, 33(2), pp. 321–335.

Raghuram, Parvati; Henry, Leroi and Bornat, Joanna (2010). Difference and distinction? Non-migrant and migrant networks. Sociology, 44(4), pp. 623–641.

Asis, Maruja M. B.; Piper, Nicola and Raghuram, Parvati (2010). International migration and development in Asia: Exploring knowledge frameworks. International Migration, 48(3), pp. 76–106.

Raghuram, Parvati; Bornat, Joanna and Henry, Leroi (2009). Ethnic clustering among South Asian geriatricians in the UK: an oral history study. Diversity in Health and Care, 6(4), pp. 287–296.

Raghuram, Parvati (2009). Situating women in the brain drain discourse: discursive challenges and opportunities. In: Stalford, Helen; Currie, Samantha and Velluti, Samantha eds. Gender and migration in 21st century Europe. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 85–106.

Kofman, Eleonore and Raghuram, Parvati (2009). The Implications of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the South. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva.

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Parvati Raghuram is lecturer in geography at The Open University. Her research interests focus on the ways in which the mobility, of individuals, goods and of ideas is reshaping the world.

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