Katharine Charsley
Departmental Lecturer in the Anthropology of Migration
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Katharine Charsley is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Bristol. She was previously Departmental Lecturer in the
Anthropology of Migration, convening the MPhil in Migration Studies based at
ISCA and linked to COMPAS.
Her doctoral research, based on fieldwork in the UK and Pakistan, was on
transnational Pakistani marriages. She received her PhD from the University of
Edinburgh in 2003. She then held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social
Anthropology and South Asian Studies, followed by a lectureship in Sociology,
both at the University of Edinburgh. In addition to her research on
transnational marriage, she has carried out work (with Ross Bond and Sue
Grundy at Edinburgh ) on Scottish graduate migration, and is working on new
research on marriage and migration.
Selected recent publications:
Charsley, K. 2009. Risk and Ritual: the protection of British Pakistani women
in transnational marriage. In V. S. Kalra (ed) Pakistani Diasporas: Culture,
Conflict and Change. Oxford: OUP.
Bond, R., K. Charsley & S. Grundy. (forthcoming) An Audible Minority:
migration, settlement and identity among English graduates in Scotland.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Charsley, K. 2007. Risk, trust, gender and transnational cousin marriage among
British Pakistanis. Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6): 1117-31 (Special Issue
edited by Steven Vertovec on 'New Directions in the Anthropology of Migration
and Multiculturalism')