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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.

          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 1960s she studied on a scholarship in the United States before coming to Britain in the early 1970s, where she worked as a researcher at the Ethnic Relations Unit at Bristol University.

          Brah, Avtar, Cartographies of Diaspora, London and New York,.

          She was left a stateless refugee in Britain after Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda. She began her PhD in the mid-1970s, 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 wh