On Thursday, October 24th, 2024, Mukta Naik will defend her PhD thesis, "Governing Youth Mobilities in ‘Migration Junctions’: A Scalar View from India’s ‘smaller’ Cities."
- Date
- Thursday 24 Oct 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
More about her research
Moving away from the focus on long-term rural-urban migration to metropolitan centres, this PhD unpacks the role of smaller cities in the complexified mobility pathways of youth who are at the heart of structural transformation in developing economies. Building on empirical research in India, the research demonstrates how economically dynamic smaller cities act as ‘migration junctions’ by shaping varied employment opportunities and generating spatially and temporally varied mobilities for domestic migrants; however, smaller cities’ weak governance and informalized economies also create uneven incorporation opportunities by class, caste and gender. The research suggests that a policy problem as complex as domestic migration governance requires mobilities-sensitive and collaborative approaches that empower cities to create inclusive migrant incorporation pathways within multi-scalar governance settings.
More about Mukta
- Supervisor: Peter Scholten
- Co-supervisor: Jurian Edelenbos
Join Mukta's PhD defence to hear more about her research.
- Date: 24th October, 10:30
- Place: Woudestein Campus, Erasmus Building, Senaatszaal
