Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux - Paperback

by Parminder Bhachu (Author)

There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium.

Author Biography

Parminder Bhachu is the author of both Twice Migrants and Dangerous Designs and also co-editor of both Enterprising Women and Immigration and Entrepreneurship. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA. She has held a Henry R. Luce Professorship in Cultural Identities and Global Processes and has been a Director of Women's Studies. She has lived in multiple sites in East Africa, the United Kingdom, and on both the east and west coasts of the United States.