Incredibly excited to share my open-access article, Internal Deportation, published in AREA bsky.app/profile/area... It introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra-state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’. Link: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Climate change and modern slavery discourse mongers have a forgetful history of culpability, guilt, and absolution—among other things, it allows them to treat the global majority like the perpetual new kid on the block. Because, and I quote, “while Western corporations, governments and even…

Publication Alert: In our new @antipodeonline.bsky.social article, Anneleen Kenis and I argue that the recent framing of the "modern slavery–climate change" nexus resurrects environmental determinism in its modern form. Read our open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DHX2JU...

In this piece, we question the exclusion/erasure of caste-related data in the latest labour migration report of Nepal and wonder whether it establishes the validity of so-called upper-caste knowledge in producing casteless labour migration in Nepal. kathmandupost.com/columns/2025...

Whilst the Nepal Labour Migration Report 2024 is a comprehensive and valuable resource, its silence on caste perpetuates the myth that migration in Nepal is casteless. Article/w @ayushmanbhagat.bsky.social Read: Caste and Labour Migration kathmandupost.com/columns/2025...

AOM theory recognizes migrant individuality—but within limits. This paper argues why and how the theory must, as individuals do, fundamentally move—evolve. The autonomy of migration as travelling theory: Situated principles from Nepal - Ayushman Bhagat, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sharing this report fills me with great joy and sorrow. Joy because the most poignant voices of female migrant workers seep through this report. Sorrow because these individuals need us to speak. Dr Ayushman Bhagat and WOREC spell out for us why both urgently matter: doi.org/10.17633/rd....

Happy to share that my article, “Autonomy of Migration as Travelling Theory: Situated Principles from Nepal,” has now been published as an open-access piece in @societyandspace.bsky.social Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...