Dr Ali Bhagat
Small Group Project 2022-23
Raced Finance: The Color of Money at the Financial Frontier
With Vincent Guermond & Ilias Alami
This project aims to examine the racialized features and outcomes of global finance. While contemporary global development agendas continue to portray finance, credit, and entrepreneurship as key strategies for economic growth and poverty reduction, the social realities of these development-led priority areas surrounding racial inequality have been unexplored.
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Ali Bhagat is Assistant Professor and Director of the Minor in Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University’s Vancouver campus.
His research investigates refugee/migration policy and racial equity in Europe, Africa, and North America. His recent book Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2024) examines urban refugee survival in Paris, France and Nairobi, Kenya. As an international political economist, he is interested in the intersections of race, class, and sexuality and has worked on issues pertaining to LGBTQ+ refugees in particular. His work is based in qualitative methods drawing from interviews, policy analysis, and other ethnographic techniques. He has authored several journal articles in top-ranking journals, such as Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Antipode, and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Bhagat was recently awarded an SSHRC Insight Development Grant titled, "Mapping Queer African Refugee Lifepaths", which investigates the movement of refugees from country of origin to relocation. Bhagat is interested in refugee mobilities, trafficking, livelihoods, community-building, and survival strategies in Canada and South Africa. The main aim of this study is to develop refugee-informed and evidence-based best practices and policies for assisting queer refugees in the global context.
His research investigates refugee/migration policy and racial equity in Europe, Africa, and North America. His recent book Governing the Displaced: Race and Ambivalence in Global Capitalism (Cornell University Press, 2024) examines urban refugee survival in Paris, France and Nairobi, Kenya. As an international political economist, he is interested in the intersections of race, class, and sexuality and has worked on issues pertaining to LGBTQ+ refugees in particular. His work is based in qualitative methods drawing from interviews, policy analysis, and other ethnographic techniques. He has authored several journal articles in top-ranking journals, such as Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Antipode, and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Bhagat was recently awarded an SSHRC Insight Development Grant titled, "Mapping Queer African Refugee Lifepaths", which investigates the movement of refugees from country of origin to relocation. Bhagat is interested in refugee mobilities, trafficking, livelihoods, community-building, and survival strategies in Canada and South Africa. The main aim of this study is to develop refugee-informed and evidence-based best practices and policies for assisting queer refugees in the global context.
Biographical details correct as of 20.04.26