Dr Amrita Limbu
- Position: Research Fellow
- Areas of expertise: Migration; Labour migration; Transnational families; Emotions
- Email: A.Limbu@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: 2.47 Liberty Building
- Website: ORCID
Profile
I am a Research Fellow based at the School of Law, contributing to the AHRC- funded project Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise. This project focuses on the lived dimensions of the regulation of global migrant healthcare workers in the UK. In my role, I conduct archival research and qualitative research with migrant and refugee nurses and doctors. Additionally, I engage in impact and outreach activities and disseminate research findings.
Research interests
My research interests encompass migration, labour, transnational families, emotions, and affect. I have developed qualitative and quantitative research expertise through my involvement in several research projects focusing on different aspects of migration and low- and moderate- income families, including the CAREWELL project at the University of Leeds that examined care in transnational families in Europe; research at Nest Insight, London on the financial wellbeing of low-and moderate- income households in the UK; and various themes of labour and mobility at CESLAM, Social Science Baha, Nepal.
I am particularly interested in migrant journeys, and experiences of separation from family, with the aim of making meaningful contribution to the communities I study. My PhD research examined the emotions of migration and affective family relations across two migration pathways of education migration to Australia and labour migration to Qatar from Nepal.
Qualifications
- PhD, Culture & Society - Institute for Culture & Society, Western Sydney University
Professional memberships
- British Sociological Association (BSA)
- Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)
- Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC)
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Law and Social Justice