Biography
Soumya Mishra is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, currently working on a project titled "Chinese Capital and Indian Migrants: Shaping India's Phone Manufacturing Boom."
Her research examines the relationship between China-associated capital flows into Indian manufacturing and patterns of interstate labour migration, focusing on three major phone manufacturing hubs across North and South India.
Her primary research interests include rural-urban migration, structural transformation and industrial development in the Global South, with a particular focus on China-associated manufacturing in India and Africa.
Research
- Rural-urban migration
- Chinese manufacturing overseas
- Chinese investments in Asia and Africa
- Special Economic Zones
- Psycho-social impacts of urbanisation
Teaching
Postgraduate
- 7YYINGA1 Introduction to Global Affairs
- 7YYISGA3 Research Methods
- 7YYIN002 Contemporary India
Further details
Research
Chinese International Investments research group
We examine how Chinese companies and government initiatives have made China a new source of large-scale capital investments and business activities in a variety of sectors.
News
New report examines the impacts of China-associated economic development zones in Africa
Research explores the economic, social, labour, environmental and political outcomes of China-associated zones across Africa
New study compares workplace-residence systems in China and India as a form of migrant labour control
Research explores the strategies employed in China and India for controlling migrant labour through workplace-residence systems.
Events
Unsettling developments: How different 'value(s)' of land influence outcomes of a Special Economic Zone in rural India
A seminar by Dr Soumya Mishra
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Chinese International Investments research group
We examine how Chinese companies and government initiatives have made China a new source of large-scale capital investments and business activities in a variety of sectors.
News
New report examines the impacts of China-associated economic development zones in Africa
Research explores the economic, social, labour, environmental and political outcomes of China-associated zones across Africa
New study compares workplace-residence systems in China and India as a form of migrant labour control
Research explores the strategies employed in China and India for controlling migrant labour through workplace-residence systems.
Events
Unsettling developments: How different 'value(s)' of land influence outcomes of a Special Economic Zone in rural India
A seminar by Dr Soumya Mishra
Please note: this event has passed.