Sujata Ramachandran

BSIA Fellow

Wilfrid Laurier University

Sujata Ramachandran

BSIA Fellow

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Dr. Sujata Ramachandran is a team member of the Global Migration and Food Security (MiFOOD) Network and the Remitting for Resilience (R2) Project, two international research initiatives focused on internal and international migration, food security, remittance practices, and climate adaptation. Her research interests include migration and sustainable development, migration governance, and migrant integration in Canada, Southern Africa, and South Asia. She holds a PhD in Geography from Wilfrid Laurier University. She has contributed background research to the Global Commission on International Migration (GCIM), UNDP’s Human Development Report on migration and development, and the World Bank’s Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD), where she served as a consultant. She has been involved in multiple projects funded by NFRF, SSHRC, IDRC, CIHR, among others. Sujata has published in several journals, including Comparative Migration Studies, International Migration, and Migration and Development. She is the co-editor of the New Directions in South-South Migration (Springer, 2025) and the forthcoming volume, Living through COVID-19 as Migrants and Refugees: Food Security, Gender and Health Impacts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). Sujata co-edits the MiFOOD Working Paper series.

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Ramachandran, S., Siddique, N., Udayan, E.B., KC, H., Dhakal, A., & Crush, J. (2026). ‘Little pockets of joy and happiness’: Momo informal entrepreneurial economy, urban foodways, and Nepali migrants in Delhi, India. MiFOOD Working Paper 76.
Owuor, S., Mwangi, V., Oredo, J., Mukhovi, S., Anangwe, S., & Ramachandran, S. (2026). COVID-19 struggles and coping strategies of women food vendors in Nairobi’s informal settlements. Sustainability, 18(5), 2259.
Ramachandran, S., Chikanda, A., & Crush, J. (2026). Migration and food security. In J. Sumner & Classens, M. (Eds.), Teaching food studies (pp. 206-215). Edward Elgar.
Sunu, N., & Ramachandran, S. (2026). Remittance transfers, digitalization and the Ghana-Canada migration corridor. Migration and Development, 0(0).
Owusu, B., Ramachandran, S., & Crush, J. (2025). Climate change impacts and internal migration in Africa: A scoping review of emerging evidence. African Journal of Governance and Development, 14(1/2), 161-193.
Ramachandran, S., Chikanda, A. & Crush, J. (2025). Refugee entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial economies in South Africa. In N. Ranabahu, H. de Vries, & R. Hamilton (Eds.), Refugee Entrepreneurship: A Research Companion (pp. 164-179). Routledge.
Siddique, N., & Ramachandran, S. (2024). The punitive gap: NRC, due process and denationalization politics in India’s Assam. Comparative Migration Studies, 12, 34 (Special Issue: Citizenship policy from paper to practice: Global perspectives on the implementation gap).
Ramachandran, S., Crush, J., Tawodzera, G., & Onyango, E. (2024). Pandemic precarity, crisis-living and food insecurity: Female Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa. In M. McAuliffe & C. Bauloz (Eds.), Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19 (pp. 180-195). Edward Elgar.
Ramachandran, S. & Crush, J. (2023). Food security, equitable development and South-South migration: Towards a research agenda. International Migration, 61(6), 341-344.
Crush, J. & Ramachandran, S. (2023). Mapping the linkages between food security, inequality, migration, and development in the Global South. In H. Crawley & J. Teye (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality (pp. 567-586). Palgrave Macmillan.
Crush, J. & Ramachandran, S. (2022). Expanding the Use of Administrative Data Sources and New Data Types for Labour Migration Statistics. African Union and Statistics South Africa.