Dr Gurchathen Sanghera

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 461932

Email

gss10@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research areas

Gurchathen joined the School of International Relations as a Lecturer in 2007 and was, eventually, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017. He is the co-Deputy Director of the Minorities Research Centre at the University and a member of the AHRC's Peer Review College. In 2020, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. 

Gurchathen?s research explores the complexities of social justice and, in particular, the discursive and material reproduction of marginalisation and exclusion globally, nationally and locally.

More specifically, his research is concerned with examining the ways in which various forms of discrimination intersect (for example caste, class, gender, geographical, sexual, religious) to shape people?s everyday lives and how, in turn, people respond to such processes. This work draws on empirical research and is also informed by theoretical debates.

Gurchathen?s research falls within the following four themes:

1. Critical approaches to human rights:

• Social constructionism
• Postcolonialism
• 'Politics' of human rights
• Children?s rights.

2. Child labour in India:

• Causes (caste, class, gender, religion) and implications
• State-subaltern relations and structural violence
• Political-economy of India and elite-led development
• Human rights in India
• Neoliberal globalisation and India
• Resistance.

3. The politics of race and ethnicity in the UK:

• Social capital and social mobility
• Islamophobia and racism
• Gender experiences and responses
• Social and political identities
• Resistance and resilience.

4. Qualitative research: 

• Positionality and intersectionality
• Gatekeepers
• Researching marginalised groups.

PhD supervision

• Muneerah Ab Razak
• Bennett Collins
• Patrick Obuobi

Selected publications

• Young people?s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland

  Botterill, K., Hopkins, P. & Sanghera, G. S., 4 May 2019, In : Social and Cultural Geography. 20, 4, p. 465-484 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Child Labour, International Law, and Multinational Enterprises

  Sanghera, G. S., 2018, International Human Rights. International Children's Rights.. Liefaard, T. & Kilkelly, U. (eds.). Springer

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland

  Botterill, K., Hopkins, P. & Sanghera, G., 15 Oct 2018, In : Geopolitics. Latest Articles, 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration

  Hopkins, P., Botterill, K. & Sanghera, G. S., 2018, In : Geography. 103, Part 2, p. 86-92

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• ?Living rights?, rights claims, performative citizenship and young people ? the right to vote in the Scottish independence referendum

  Sanghera, G. S., Botterill, K., Hopkins, P. & Arshad, R., Jun 2018, In : Citizenship Studies. 22, 5, p. 540-555

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Delivering diversity: Race and ethnicity in the management pipeline

  Beech, P. N. H., Cornelius, N., Gordon, L. J., Healy, G., Ogbonna, E., Sanghera, G. S., Umeh, C. & Woodman, P., 19 Jul 2017, London: British Academy of Management and Chartered Management Institute.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Commissioned report

• Encountering misrecognition: being mistaken for being Muslim

  Hopkins, P., Botterill, K., Sanghera, G. & Arshad, R., 2017, In : Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107, 4, p. 934-948

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Minority ethnic young people: confident negotiators

  Arshad, R., Botterill, K., Hopkins, P. & Sanghera, G., 1 Jun 2017, In : Race Equality Teaching. 34, 2, p. 5-9 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Muslim Youth in Scotland: Politics, Identity and Multicultural Citizenship

  Botterill, K., Sanghera, G. S. & Hopkins, P., 1 Sep 2017, Scotland's Muslims - Society, Politics and Identity. University of Edinburgh, p. 136-154

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Transnationalism, social capital and gender ? young Pakistani Muslim women in Bradford, UK

  Sanghera, G. S. & Thapar-Bjorkert, S., 8 Jan 2017, In : Migration Letters. 14, 1, p. 88-100

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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