PUBLICATIONS + PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 

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Peer Reviewed Articles  

Khan, Mishal. “Abolition as a Racial Project: Erasures and Racializations on the Borders of British India.” Political Power and Social Theory 38 (2021): 77-104. {Full PDF}

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Khan, Mishal, “After the Railways Are Built: Makrani Labor and Illegible Claims to Land and Belonging in Sindh.” Journal of Sindh Studies, 3, no.1 (February 2023): 1-27. {Full PDF}

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Book Chapters 

Khan, Mishal. “Imperial Anti-Trafficking: Producing Racialized Knowledge Regimes over the Longue Durée.” In White Supremacy, Racism, and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking, edited by Kamala Kempadoo and Elena Shih. (Routledge, 2022). 

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Khan, Mishal. “The Indebted Among the “Free”: Producing Indian Labor through the Layers of Racial Capitalism.” In Histories of Racial Capitalism, edited by Destin Jenkins and Justin LeRoy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2021).

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Baber, Zahra R. and Mishal Khan. “The Paradox of Technical Education and the Pakistani Migrant in the Gulf.” In The Gospel of Work and Money: Global Histories of Industrial Education, edited by Karine Walther and Oliver Charbonneau (Under Review).

 

Book Reviews and Smaller Pieces

Khan, Mishal. Review of “Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and what we can do about it.” By Genevieve LeBaron. American Journal of Sociology 126, no. 3 (November 2020): 739-41.

 

Khan, Mishal. Review of “Indentured Servitude: Unfree Labour and Citizenship in the British Colonies.” By Anna Suranyi. American Historical Review 127, no. 3 (September 2022): 1567-1568.

 

Khan, Mishal. “Foreword.” Translation from Sindhi to Urdu of Ghulami Ain Azadi  (From Slavery to Freedom) by Muhammad Siddiq Mussafir. (Karachi: Kitaab Publishers, 2021)

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Policy Writing 

Fairwork US Report, "Fairwork US Ratings 2023: A Crisis of Safety and Fair Work in a Racialised Platform Economy, Fairwork US, August 9th 2023. 

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Khan, Mishal et al. “Between the UAE and Pakistan – Migrant Construction Workers Walk a Tightrope during COVID19: A Snapshot.” The Persistence of Inequality: ‘Essential’ Work and COVID-19 Project, July 2020. 

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Khan, Mishal. “No. 82: Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues.” Inquiry into Modern Slavery Act (NSW), October 4, 2019. 

 

Op-Eds and Media Engagement

Jill Habig, Veena Dubal, and Mishal Khan, "Unrigging the Gig Economy" Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 27th 2023.

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World Business Report Segment on the Great Resignation, BBC World Radio, December 3rd 2021

 

Behind the “Great Resignation” Television Segment, WTTW Chicago Live, November 15th 2021

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Segment on the Great Resignation, WCPT 820 Radio Segment, Joan Esposito Live, December 2nd 2021. 

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Khan, Mishal, “Is the Great Resignation a Global Opportunity or a Siren Song?” Chicago Tribune, October 25th 2021

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Khan, Mishal. “Can you ‘see’ slavery? Black Skins, Brown Skins, and the Price of In/visibility in Colonial India.” OpenDemocracy, Beyond Trafficking and Slavery, November 11, 2019.

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Khan, Mishal. “’Slaves” and ‘Bondsmen’ after Abolition.” Collective for Social Science Research Blog, July, 2018.

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