Episode 7 Available. On Comfortable Transience: Journeys in Migration Studies with Anju Mary Paul
Anju Mary Paul joins us in this episode to discuss her unique journey as a social scientist. Paul studied migration patterns of various groups, including care workers, scientists, and Indian professionals. Her most recent research is based in the UAE, exploring the experiences of Indian women who live in what she calls a state of “comfortable transience.” We also discussed how different research methods applied to different national and class contexts, as well as how fieldwork can present unexpected results.
Anju Mary Paul is Professor of Social Research and Public Policy. She holds a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (First Class Honors) from the National University of Singapore, a Master’s in Journalism from New York University, and a PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Paul is an international migration scholar with research interests that include emergent migration patterns, particularly to, from, and within Asia and the Middle East, gender and labor, globalization, domestic work, and care policy. She is the award-winning author of Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press 2021). She is also the editor of Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017). Her research has been published in top journals in sociology and migration studies.
Prior to joining NYU, Paul served as an inaugural faculty member at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. In 2020, Paul was also awarded the Yale-NUS College Distinguished Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.