Sanjay Sharma

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I am a migration researcher and social anthropologist. I am currently based in Aarhus University’s regional campus in Copenhagen. I sometimes go with the pen name Khetaarey खेतारे.

Namaste!

I am Sanjay Sharma. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Educational Anthropology and Educational Psychology (DPU), Aarhus University, in Copenhagen.

I am part of the project Moral Economies of Schooling: Money, Morality, and Household Financing of Education, led by Associate Professor Karen Valentin (DPU) in collaboration with Associate Professor Uma Pradhan (University College London). Mohini Gupta and I are the two postdoctoral fellows working on this project. My focus is a substudy analyzing the role of remittances in financing education, specifically in Gurkha households.

I completed my PhD at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore. In my dissertation, I argued that patriarchy continues to govern the lives of migrants across transnational spaces, focusing on women from Gurkha soldier families. Based on my PhD research, I have published articles in Studies in Nepali History and Society (SINHAS), Visual Anthropology, and Asian Studies.

I have also published extensively on migration in Nepal and beyond. As a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Labour and Mobility (CESLAM) at the Social Science Baha, I led and co-authored key migration reports and working papers, including State of Migration (2014), State of Migration (2023), Taken for Granted: Nepali Migration to India (2013), and Enumerating Migration in Nepal (2011). Additionally, I led research projects for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2016 and 2024, focusing on migration and climate change. I have also worked with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and contributed to several of their publications.

My work is grounded in qualitative methodologies, with extensive experience in ethnography and visual anthropology.

I currently live in Copenhagen with my wife, Soni.

You can reach me via email at sanj@edu.au.dk, Twitter, or LinkedIn.

You can read my latest OpEds here

  • जब मानिसले सोच्न शुरू गर्‍यो…

    जब मानिसले सोच्न शुरू गर्‍यो…

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    Sanjay Sharma

    यो लेख उकालो अनलाईनमा २०८१ साउन २४ मा छापिएको थियो । उकालोको लिङ्कः https://www.ukaalo.com/opinion/20240811-human-evolution-sociology-anthropology-suresh-dhakal-book/19431 अग्रिम नोट: यो लेख पढ्दापढ्दै सोच्न र सोच्दासोच्दै पढ्न अनुरोध छ। एक लाख वर्षपहिलेतपाईं अहिले यो लेख कस्तो ठाउँमा बसेर पढिरहनुभएको छ? ढलान गरेको घर, धेरै अग्लो अफिस, उज्यालो पुस्तकालय, अँध्यारो शौचालय या अन्य केही। अब…

  • ‘नायक’ खोजिरहेको नेपाली समाज

    ‘नायक’ खोजिरहेको नेपाली समाज

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    Sanjay Sharma

    यो लेख उकालो अनलाईनमा २०८० जेठ १४ गते प्रकाशित भएको थियो । उकालोको लिङ्कः https://www.ukaalo.com/opinion/2023-0528-rabi-lamichhane-raswapa/7153 “छाडेर काम सारा एक काम रोजी रहेछु,यो देशमा म एउटा मानिस खोजी रहेछु” डा. विश्वनाथ ‘प्रेम’ले रचेर शिशिर योगीले गाएको यो गीत नेपाली समाजले गुनगुनाइरहेछ। नेपाली समाजलाई एउटा मानिस (नायक) को खोजी छ, जसले नेपाल…

  • गगनको सकस

    गगनको सकस

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    Sanjay Sharma

    यो लेख २०७९ पुस १५ गतेको कान्तिपुरमा छापिएको थियो । कान्तिपुरको लिङ्कः https://ekantipur.com/opinion/2022/12/30/167236503713314991.html?author=1 गगन थापाले काङ्ग्रेस संसदीय दलको नेतामा उम्मेदवारी दिएको दिन थुप्रै सकारात्मक लेख पत्रपत्रिकामा आए । सामाजिक सञ्जालमा समेत धेरैले उनको उम्मेदवारीले बोकेका सम्भावनाहरूको चर्चा गरे । गैरकाङ्ग्रेसीले समेत काङ्ग्रेसभित्रको लोकतन्त्रको गुणगान गाए । कतिले उनी संसदीय दलको नेता चुनिए उनी…