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 at the School of Law, contributing to the archival research, qualitative research, and impact and dissemination activities of the AHRC-funded project Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise. The project explores the lived dimensions of the regulation of global migrant healthcare workers in the UK, particularly the registration journeys of internationally-trained migrant and refugee nurses and doctors.
Research interests
My research interests lie at the intersection of migration, labour, and transnational families, with a particular interest in the emotional and affective dimensions of these experiences. I have developed qualitative and quantitative research expertise through my involvement in several research projects examining various aspects of migration and low- and moderate-income families. These include the CAREWELL project at the University of Leeds, which examined care and inequality in transnational families in Europe; research at Nest Insight, London, focusing on the financial wellbeing of low- and moderate-income households in the UK; and work on labour and mobility at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM), Social Science Baha, Nepal, where I examined labour migration to the Middle East and Asia.
I am especially interested in migrant journeys and how migration shapes the lives of both migrants and their families, with the aim of making a meaningful contribution to the communities I engage with.
My PhD research investigated the emotions of migration and affective family relations across two migration pathways: 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