Kavita Datta is Professor of Development Geography and Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary University of London. Her research spans migration studies coalescing around issues of money, food and gender. She has a long-standing interest in remittance studies, the financial, emotional and infrastructural dimensions of these practices, and impacts upon migrant well-being. More recently, she has explored the interplay between food and migration in relation to food cultures and insecurities among migrant communities and food/ remittances in contexts of severe acute malnutrition. Her current collaborative project, Remitting for Resilience, is exploring the climate adaptation, migrant remittances and food insecurity nexus. She deploys gendered intersectional perspectives to better understand diverse aspects of transnational mobility. Her research is based in the UK, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
