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RADHA ADHA ADHA ADHA AAAADHIKARIDHIKARIDHIKARIDHIKARI is a qualified nurse from Nepal. She has worked as a Staff Nurse, Ward Sister and a Lecturer in nursing in Nepal and as a qualified Nurse in the UK since 1994. She is currently completing a PhD at the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh and is exploring issues of nursing training in Nepal and the experience of Nepalese nurses migrating to the UK. Email: [email protected].
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OLIVIA LIVIA LIVIA LIVIA AAAAUBRIOT UBRIOT UBRIOT UBRIOT is a researcher at the CNRS (UPR 299). As an agro- anthropologist, she specialises in irrigation water management. She completed her PhD in Nepal and then worked in South India, notably while on secondment for three years in Puducherry. She is currently researching climate change in Nepal and practices in the Terai within a migratory context.
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BARBARA ARBARA ARBARA ARBARA BBBBERARDI ERARDI ERARDI ERARDI TTTTADIÉADIÉADIÉADIÉ is a PhD student in Ethnology and Social Anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her research deals with civil society networks in Nepal and focuses in particular on voluntary associations in the city of Pokhara, where she has carried out her fieldwork. Email: [email protected].
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TRISTAN RISTAN RISTAN RISTAN BBBBRUSLE RUSLE RUSLE RUSLE is a geographer at the French National Research Centre (CNRS, “Milieux, Sociétés et Cultures en Himalaya”). After completing a PhD about Far Western Nepalese workers migrating to Northern India, he is now interested in international labour migration from Nepal to the Middle East. The dynamics of the Nepalese diaspora in India and worldwide also figures strongly in his research.
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ANITA NITA NITA NITA GGGGHIMIREHIMIREHIMIREHIMIRE is a student at Kathmandu University, Nepal and affiliated to the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) – North- South, under the theme “Livelihoods Options and Globalization”. Her PhD focuses on “Social and territorial impacts of armed conflict induced displacement and livelihoods of internally displaced persons in Nepal”.
She is particularly interested in the study of livelihoods (from a sociological perspective) and sociological theories. As of December 2009, she will be examining the international migration-development nexus in Nepal, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Switzerland. Email:
EEEELVIRA LVIRA LVIRA LVIRA GGGGRANERRANERRANERRANER is a geographer based at the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg. Her research in Nepal focuses on economic and development issues, such as labour migration, health and education.
Email: [email protected].
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ULRIKE LRIKE LRIKE LRIKE MMMMÜLLERÜLLERÜLLERÜLLER----BBBBÖKERÖKERÖKERÖKER is Professor of Human Geography, currently director of the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and head of NCCR North-South programme component ‘institutions, livelihoods, conflicts‘. Email: [email protected].
SSSSATYA ATYA ATYA ATYA SSSSHRHRHRHRESTHAESTHAESTHAESTHA----SSSSCHIPPERCHIPPERCHIPPERCHIPPER is a PhD scholar in Social Anthropology and she works jointly with UPR 299, CNRS, Paris. Her research focuses on the Matwali population of Jumla district, where she has conducted extensive fieldwork. Email: [email protected].
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BANDITA ANDITA ANDITA ANDITA SSSSIJAPATI IJAPATI IJAPATI IJAPATI is a PhD student at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, New York, USA. She is currently researching the political socialization of immigrants in the United States.
Email: [email protected].
SSSSUSAN USAN USAN USAN TTTTHIHIHIHIEMEEMEEMEEME is research associate and lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Zurich. Her research interests are centred on migration and development issues in South and Central Asia. Email:
