Chancellor Jackman Graduate Fellow
Hadia is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology, interested in the interdisciplinary study of labor, economy, kinship and gender. Her previous degrees are in Gender, Political Science, Economics and French. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Research Council and the Center for Ethnography (UTSC). She is also an experienced student and housing activist and community educator in Toronto. She is currently an Editor of Jamhoor.org, a critical left media organization that highlights marginalized South Asian voices.
Fellowship Project—Family Values: Labour, Kinship, and Gender in Rural Pakistan
My dissertation investigates how migrant joint families in rural Pakistan mobilize and navigate various forms of family labor to achieve upward mobility through male migration to Malaysia whilst upholding honor-based patriarchal and patrilineal values in the village. I analyse family practices, meanings and sentiments of solidarity that generate and sustain upward mobility, and the fierce moral and social conflicts over labor, value and entitlements that divide families. By focussing on the family as a central node through which different kinds of labor produce complimentary and competing economic and cultural values, I contribute to the labor theory of value.