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Publications: Prof Kavita Datta

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Lim I, Datta K ( 2024 ) . Changing practices of providing (financial) care: gender, digital access and remittances during COVID-19 . Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 , Edward Elgar Publishing
de Gruchy T, Vearey J, Datta K, Chase E, Musariri L ( 2024 ) . The 'covidisation' of migration and health research: understanding the implications of the pandemic for the field . Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 , Edward Elgar Publishing
Chagwena DT, Fernando S, Tavengwa NV, Sithole S, Nyachowe C, Njovo H, Datta K, Brown T et al. ( 2023 ) . Formulation and acceptability of local nutrient‐dense foods for young children: A formative study for the Child Health, Agriculture and Integrated Nutrition (CHAIN) Trial in rural Zimbabwe . Maternal and Child Nutrition vol. 20 , ( 2 )
Brown T, Datta K, Fernando S ( 2022 ) . Gender, caring work, and the embodiment of kufungisisa: Findings from a global health intervention in Shurugwi District, Zimbabwe . Health & Place vol. 78 ,
Bastia T, Datta K, Hujo K, Piper N, Walsham M ( 2022 ) . Reflections on intersectionality: a journey through the worlds of migration research, policy and advocacy . Gender Place & Culture vol. 30 , ( 3 ) 460 - 483 .
Datta K ( 2022 ) . Migrants and their Money . Bristol University Press
Datta K ( 2022 ) . Skilled Migration, Education and International Development . Education, Migration and Development ,
Fernando S, Brown T, Datta K, Chidhanguro D, Tavengwa NV, Chandna J, Munetsi E, Dzapasi L et al. ( 2021 ) . The Friendship Bench as a brief psychological intervention with peer support in rural Zimbabwean women: a mixed methods pilot evaluation . Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health vol. 8 ,
Kraftl P, Datta K, Geoghegan H ( 2020 ) . Editorial introduction: Revisiting Jacqueline Tivers’ “How the other half lives” . Area vol. 52 , ( 4 ) 766 - 769 .
Datta K, Guermond V ( 2020 ) . Essay forum: Labor in financialization: Financialization and/of migrant labor . The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization ,
Kraftl P, Datta K, Bryant R, Nash F ( 2018 ) . Fifty years of Area: Taking stock, looking forward . Area vol. 50 , ( 4 ) 434 - 439 .
DATTA K, Aznar C ( 2018 ) . The space-times of migration and debt: Re-positioning migrants’ debt and credit practices and institutions in, and through, London . Geoforum
Martin R, Pollard J, Datta K ( 2017 ) . Chapter 23: ‘Mainstreaming’ the ‘alternative’? The financialization of transnational migrant remittances . Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance , Edward Elgar Publishing
Datta K ( 2017 ) . ‘Mainstreaming’ the ‘alternative’? The financialization of transnational migrant remittances . Handbook on the Geographies of Money and Finance , Edward Elgar Publishing
Pollard J, Datta K, James A, Akli Q ( 2015 ) . Islamic charitable infrastructure and giving in East London: Everyday economic-development geographies in practice . Journal of Economic Geography vol. 16 , ( 4 ) 871 - 896 .
McIlwaine C, Datta K ( 2014 ) . Sustaining a global city at work: resilient geographies of a migrant division of labour . Sustainable London? , Bristol University Press
Datta K ( 2012 ) . Migrants and Their Money . Bristol University Press
Datta K ( 2012 ) . Migrants and Their Money: Surviving Financial Exclusion . The Policy Press
Datta K ( 2012 ) . Migrants and their money . JSTOR
MAY JR, Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, Wills J ( 2012 ) . Global workers for global cities: low-paid migrant labour in London . International Handbook of Globalisation and World Cities , Editors: Taylor, P, Derudder, B, Hoyler, M, Witlox, F et al. , Edward-Elgar ( London ),
Datta K ( 2012 ) . Housing Finance Global South . International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home , Elsevier
Datta K ( 2012 ) . Migration and Housing Global South . International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home , Elsevier
Wood G, Datta K ( 2012 ) . Policy . International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home , Elsevier
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J ( 2011 ) . Chapter 35: Global Workers for Global Cities: Low Paid Migrant Labour in London . International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities , Edward Elgar Publishing
Datta K ( 2011 ) . LAST HIRED AND FIRST FIRED? THE IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN ON LOW-PAID BULGARIAN MIGRANT WORKERS IN LONDON . J INT DEV vol. 23 , ( 4 ) 565 - 582 .
Wills J, Datta K, Evans J, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . Global Cities at Work . Pluto Press
Wills J, Datta K, May J, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J ( 2010 ) . (Im)migration, local, regional and uneven development . Routledge Handbook of Local and Regional Development , Editors: Pike, A, Rodriguez-Pose, A, Tomerey, J , Routledge ( London ),
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J ( 2010 ) . A migrant ethic of care? negotiating care and caring among migrant workers in London's low-pay economy . FEMINIST REV ( 94 ) 93 - 116 .
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . Global Cities at Work: Migrant Labour in Low-Paid Employment in London . LONDON JOURNAL vol. 35 , ( 1 ) 85 - 99 .
Wills J, Datta K, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2010 ) . Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour . Pluto Press ( London ),
Wills J, McIlwaine C, Datta K, May J, Herbert J, Evans Y ( 2010 ) . New migrant divisions of labour . The Economic Geography of the UK , Editors: Coe, N, Jones, A , Edition. 1 , Sage ( London ),
Wills J, May J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2009 ) . London's Migrant Division of Labour . European Urban and Regional Studies vol. 16 , ( 3 ) 257 - 271 .
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Herbert J, Evans Y, May J, Wills J ( 2009 ) . Men on the move: narratives of migration and work among low-paid migrant men in London . SOC CULT GEOGR vol. 10 , ( 8 ) 853 - 873 .
Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2009 ) . Religion at work: The role of faith-based organisations in the London living wage campaign . Camrbridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society vol. 2 , ( 3 ) 443 - 461 .
Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2009 ) . Religion at work: the role of faith-based organizations in the London living wage campaign . The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society vol. 2 , ( 3 ) 443 - 461 .
Datta K ( 2009 ) . Risky Migrants?: Low-Paid Migrant Workers Coping With Financial Exclusion in London . European Urban and Regional Studies vol. 16 , ( 4 ) 331 - 344 .
DATTA K ( 2009 ) . Transforming south-north relations? International migration and development . Geography Compass vol. 3 , ( 1 ) 108 - 134 .
Herbert J, May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, McIlwaine C ( 2008 ) . Multicultural living? Experiences of everyday racism among Ghanaian migrants in London . EUROPEAN URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES . vol. 15 , 103 - 117 .
Herbert J, May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, McIlwaine C ( 2008 ) . Mutlicultural living? Experiences of everyday racism amongst Ghanian migrants in London . European Urban and Regional Research vol. 15 , ( 2 ) 103 - 117 .
May J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C, Wills J ( 2008 ) . Travelling neoliberalism: Polish and Ghanian migrants in London . Social justice and neoliberalism: global perspectives , Editors: Smith, A, Stenning, A, Willis, K , Verso ( London ),
May J, Wills J, Datta K, Evans Y, Herbert J, McIlwaine C ( 2007 ) . Keeping London working: global cities, the British state and London's new migrant division of labour . T I BRIT GEOGR vol. 32 , ( 2 ) 151 - 167 .
Datta K ( 2007 ) . "In the eyes of a child, a father is everything": Changing constructions of fatherhood in urban Botswana? . WOMEN STUD INT FORUM vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 97 - 113 .
DATTA K, McIlwaine C, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J, Wills J ( 2007 ) . From coping strategies to tactics: London's low pay economy and migrant labour . British Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 45 , ( 2 ) 409 - 438 .
DATTA K ( 2007 ) . Gender and microfinance . Habitat Debate vol. 13 , ( 1 )
Evans Y, Wills J, Datta K, Herbert J, May J, McIlwaine C ( 2007 ) . Subcontracting by stealth in London's hotels: impacts and implications for labour organising . Just Labour vol. 10 , 85 - 98 .
Datta K, McIlwaine C, Wills J, Evans Y, Herbert J, May J ( 2007 ) . The new development finance or exploiting migrant labour? Remittance sending among low-paid migrant workers in London . INT DEV PLANN REV vol. 29 , ( 1 ) 43 - 67 .
McIlwaine C, DATTA K ( 2004 ) . Endangered Youth? Youth, Gender and Sexualities in Urban Botswana . Gender, Place and Culture vol. 11 , ( 4 ) 484 - 512 .
Datta K ( 2004 ) . A coming of age? Re-conceptualising gender and development in urban Botswana . J S AFR STUD vol. 30 , ( 2 ) 251 - 268 .
DATTA K ( 2003 ) . From feminising to engendering development . Gender, Place and Culture vol. 10 , ( 4 ) 345 - 358 .
Datta K, Jones GA ( 2001 ) . Housing and finance in developing countries: invisible issues on research and policy agendas . HABITAT INT vol. 25 , ( 3 ) 333 - 357 .
Datta K ( 2001 ) . Expectations of modernity . J HIST GEOGR vol. 27 , ( 3 ) 469 - 471 .
Datta K ( 2001 ) . Geographies of new femininities . PROG HUM GEOG vol. 25 , ( 2 ) 329 - 330 .
DATTA K, McIlwaine C ( 2000 ) . Empowered leaders? Perspectives on women headed households in Latin America and Southern Africa . Gender and Development vol. 8 , ( 3 ) 40 - 49 .
Jones GA ( 2000 ) . Enabling markets to work: how close is South Africa to best practice? . International Planning Studies vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 393 - 416 .
DATTA K ( 1999 ) . A gendered perspective on formal and informal finance in Botswana . Housing and Finance in Developing Countries , Editors: Datta, K, Jones, GA , Routledge ( London ),
Jones GA, Datta K ( 1999 ) . From self-help to self-finance: the changing focus of urban research and policy . Housing and Finance in Developing Countries , Editors: Datta, K, Jones, GA , Edition. 1 , Routledge ( London ),
DATTA K, Jones GA ( 1999 ) . Housing and Finance in Developing Countries . Routledge ( London ),
DATTA K ( 1998 ) . Gender, labour markets and migration in and from Botswana . Reconfiguring the region: South Africa in Southern Africa , Editors: Smith, D , James Currey ( Oxford ),
DATTA K ( 1996 ) . The organisation and performance of a low income rental market: the case of Gaborone, Botswana . Cities vol. 13 , ( 4 ) 237 - 246 .
DATTA K ( 1996 ) . Women owners, tenants and sharers in Botswana . A place to live: gender research on housing in Africa , Editors: Schlyter, A , Nordic Africa Institute ( Uppsala ),
DATTA K ( 1995 ) . Rural homes and urban dwellings? Gender, migration and the importance of urban tenure in Gaborone, Botswana . International Journal of Population Geography vol. 1 , ( 2 ) 183 - 195 .
DATTA K ( 1995 ) . Strategies for urban survival? Women landlords in Gaborone, Botswana . Habitat International vol. 19 , ( 1 ) 1 - 12 .
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