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Avtar Brah
Ugandan-British sociologist
Avtar Brah is a Ugandan-British sociologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London, and a pioneer of diaspora studies.
Avtar brah biography of alberta
Life
Avtar Brah was born in the Punjab and grew up in Uganda.[1] Her mother tongue was Punjabi, and she recalls reading the novelist Nanak Singh, the eighteenth-century poet Waris Shah and the contemporary poet Amrita Pritam as a young person.
In the late s she studied on a scholarship in the United States before coming to Britain in the early s, where she worked as a researcher at the Ethnic Relations Unit at Bristol University. She was left a stateless refugee in Britain after Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda.
She began her PhD in the mids, researching Asian communities in Southall, and moved to Southall as a community worker when her research contract at Bristol University ended. She participated in a demonstration against the National Front at which hundreds