Biography
Bani completed her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in September 2019. Situated at the intersection of Anthropology, Migration Studies and South Asia Studies, her doctoral dissertation explored contemporary practices of transnational mobility from West Africa to Delhi, India, with a particular focus on frameworks of migrant ‘illegality’, informal entrepreneurship, racialization, and the violence of law and bureaucracy from a global south perspective. She serves as an Executive Committee Member of the Emerging Scholars and Practitioners on Migration Issues Network (ESPMI) and is on the editorial team of Refugee Review. Bani Gill was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the PEAK Urban Programme until early 2022.
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Publications
Gill, B. “The Social Life of Illegality: Suspicion and Surveillance against African Migrants in Urban India”, American Anthropologist (Forthcoming)
Gill, B. “The Work of Proximity: Migration as Coexistence”. In Flemmer, R., Gill, B. and Kosgei J. (Ed.), Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present. Routledge India (Forthcoming)
Flemmer, R., Gill, B. and Kosgei J (Ed.), Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present. Routledge India (Forthcoming)