
Dr Ayushman Bhagat
Lecturer in Political Geography
- Anthropology
- Social Science and Communications
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Bhagat, A. and Yea, S. (2025) 'Contested geographies of trafficking borders'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 2399-6544
Bhagat, A. and Thapa, K. (2025) 'Investing in returnee migrants’ health'. Place of publication: The Kathmandu Post. Available at: https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2025/03/07/investing-in-returnee-migrants-health.
Bhagat, A. and Mainali, S. (2025) 'Ban on female migrant workers to be lifted'. Place of publication: Nepali Times. Available at: https://nepalitimes.com/opinion/ban-on-female-migrant-workers-to-be-lifted. ISSN: 1814-2613
Bhagat, A. and Mainali, S. (2025) 'Problematic anti-human smuggling law'. Place of publication: The Kathmandu Post. Available at: https://kathmandupost.com/columns/2025/01/17/why-an-anti-smuggling-law-is-problematic.
Yea, S. and Bhagat, A. (2024) 'The gendered (im)mobilities of carceral protectionism in labour migration', in Preston, V., McLafferty, S., Maciejewska, M. and Yeoh, BSA. (eds.) Handbook of Gender and Mobilities. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 271 - 283. ISBN 10: 1-0353-0086-9. ISBN 13: 978-1-03530-085-3.
McGrath, S. and Bhagat, A. (2024) 'Decolonising “Modern Slavery”'. Antipode. pp. 1 - 5. ISSN: 0066-4812
Bhagat, A. (2024) 'Reducing vulnerability to exploitation of Nepali migrant domestic workers'. Place of publication: Brunel University London. Available at: https://brunel.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Reducing_Vulnerability_to_Exploitation_of_Nepali_Migrant_Domestic_Workers/26892934/1?file=48931666.
Bhagat, A., Sita, M. and Rajib, N. (2024) 'Who Benefits from Migration Bans?'. The Kathmandu Post.
Mademba, S., Neupane, R. and Bhagat, A. (2024) 'नेपाली महिलामा जातीय दासत्वको खिल'. Kantipur.
Neupane, R., Mademba, S. and Bhagat, A. (2024) 'आधुनिक दासत्वको नयाँ भाषा'. Kantipur.
Bhagat, A. and Yea, S. (2024) 'Towards carceral protectionist territories: Relational geographies of anti-trafficking confinement in Nepal'. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 2399-6544
Bhagat, A. (2024) 'Beyond Victim-Centric Research: Participatory Action Research in a Trafficking ‘Hotspot’ of Nepal', in Faulkner, EA. (ed.) Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law, and Society. Bristol : Bristol University Press. pp. 261 - 290. ISBN 10: 1-5292-2473-X. ISBN 13: 978-1-5292-2470-2.
Bhagat, A. and Quirk, J. (2024) 'Do we really need a Global Commission on Modern Slavery?'. openDemocracy | Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.
Bhagat, A. (2023) 'Forgotten survivor initiatives: the zombie projects of anti-trafficking'. openDemocracy | Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.
Bhagat, A. (2022) '“Who is not an agent here?”: The Collateral Damage of Anti-Trafficking in Nepal'. Antipode, 55 (1). pp. 70 - 89. ISSN: 0066-4812
Bhagat, A. (2022) 'Entrapment processes in the emigration regime: The presence of migration bans and the absence of bilateral labor agreements in domestic work in Nepal'. Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 23 (2). pp. 222 - 245. ISSN: 1565-1509
Bhagat, A. (2022) 'The Impact of migration bans on female Nepalese citizens'. Available at: https://www.trafflab.org/_files/ugd/11e1f0_8ac111427f244f4cb460b415d5de2a9d.pdf.
Bhagat, A. (2022) 'Trafficking borders'. Political Geography, 95. pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 0962-6298
Bhagat, A. (2021) 'Labour migrants’ struggle to subvert anti-trafficking interventions in Nepal'. openDemocracy.
Bhagat, A. (2021) 'Departure Avenues: The Politics of (Anti-) Trafficking and Emigration Control in Nepal'. PhD Thesis.