Ram B. Bhagat

Retd Professor, Department of Migration And Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sceinces
Formerly at International Institute for Population Sciences, India

rbbhagat@iipsindia.ac.in

Field of Study: Geography, Population and Development
 
Specialization: Ageing, Culture, religion and ethnicity, Internal Migration, International Migration, Labor force/Employment, Population and Development, Population and Environment, Social Demography, State and Local Demography, Urbanization, Vulnerability and Human Rights
 
Regional focus: South Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), University of Bombay, Demography, 1988
 
Working languages: English
Hindi
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA)
National Association of Geographers, India


Professional web page:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/R-Bhagat  
 
Professional Summary:

Ram B. Bhagat is former Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India.  His research interest includes migration, urbanization, regional development; demography, ethnicity, and politics analysed through the lens of space and place as a critical framework of analysis. He has served as Consultant to UNESCO-UNICEF (India Initiative on Migration), International Organisation of Migration (IOM), and Population Division, United Nations. Professor Bhagat was actively associated with Working Group on Urbanisation set up by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Paris, (IUSSP) and attended its four important meetings at Salvador (Brazil 2001), Bellagio (Italy) 2002, Minneapolis 2003, and Marrakech 2009, and was a member of the IUSSP panel on Demography of Armed Conflict, 2006–09.

 

 He is   the Founding Convener of South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants (SALAM) established by ILO, UN-Women and IOM at IIPS in 2021.

 

 

Publications:
  1.  Rajan, I. and Bhagat, R.B. (2022). Researching Internal Migration, Routledge India, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003329572

  

  1. Bhagat, R.B. (2022). Population and the Political Imagination: Census, Register and Citizenship in India (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097785

 

  1. Kumar, Ashwani and Bhagat, R.B. (2022). Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India, Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367765477

 

  1. Bhagat, R.B., Roy, A.K. and Sahoo, H. (2020). Migration and Urban Transition in India: A Development Perspective, Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429298356

 

  1. Rajan, I. and Bhagat, R.B. (2018). Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration, Routlede India.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315147741

 

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
i) Professor and Head

Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai-88, India.

ii) Convenor, South Asia Centre for Labour Mobility and Migrants (SALAM), International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai-88, India