Nazli Kibria

About

Professor Nazli Kibria is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at Boston University. She received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College and earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. Her teaching and research interests encompass migration, race, family, and childhood, with a particular focus on South Asia and the Asian American experience. Her current projects include research on experiences of economic decline in families and on the negotiation of adult sibling relationships across divisions of social class, immigration, and citizenship.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Gender studies
• Psychology
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Law
• Social psychology
• Pedagogy

Selected publications

• Deserving Immigrants and Good Advocate Mothers: Immigrant Mothers’ Negotiations of Special Education Systems for Children with Disabilities

  Social Problems · 2020 · 29 citations

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  Abstract Drawing on observational data and 30 in-depth interviews, we examine how immigrant mothers of color from diverse class, ethnic, and racial backgrounds negotiate public special education services for their children with severe intellectual disabilities. Special education systems in the United States emphasize parental involvement and oversight in the process of developing appropriate service packages for children. The intersection of these expectations with ideologies of intensive mother…

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• The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings

  Social Problems · 2021 · 14 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Abstract This article offers the concept of “economies of recognition” to analyze the moral frames that siblings caring for left-behind parents in China use to negotiate intimate connections to their emigrant brothers and sisters. We argue that the impact of family dislocation on sibling relations is shaped by family members’ co-constructed relational infrastructure. Our findings identify four types of relational infrastructure—collaboration, intrusion/interference, voluntary takeover, and feeli…

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• Living religions across transnational spaces: experiences of South Asian American Hindu and Muslim women

  Contemporary South Asia · 2021-04-03 · 5 citations

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  This paper focuses on women of Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani origin in the US diaspora to examine how religious identities unfold within multi-layered transnational structures that range from political histories and events to active webs of family and community relationships that stretch across the diaspora. Our analysis draws on focus groups and interviews with highly educated Hindu and Muslim women in the US. For these women, approaches to religion were marked by multiple points of tension…

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• Muslims in Motion

  Rutgers University Press eBooks · 2020 · 4 citations

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  In Muslims in Motion , Nazli Kibria provides a comparative look at Bangladeshi Muslims in different global contexts--including Britain, the U.S., the Middle East, and Malaysia. Kibria examines international migrant flows from Bangladesh, and considers how such migrations continue to shape Islamization in these areas. Having conducted more than 200 in-depth interviews, she explores how, in societies as different as these, migrant Muslims, in their everyday lives, strive to achieve economic gains,…

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• The Emerging Diaspora of Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Overseas Movements and Settlements

  2022-01-01 · 3 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Saher Selod

  Simmons University

  3 shared

• Cara Bowman

  Boston University

  2 shared

• Sonali Jain

  International Monetary Fund

  2 shared

• Rosalind C. Barnett

  Women's Hospital

  2 shared

• Tobias Henry Watson

  2 shared

• Grace K. Baruch

  2 shared

• Megan O’Leary

  2 shared

• Steve Gold

  2 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of Pennsylvania

  1986

• B.A.

  Wellesley College

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