Associate Professor of Sociology

nkibria@bu.edu

96 Cummington St.
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: 617-353-2591

• Bangladesh and South Asia
• Family
• Race and Ethnicity
• Effects of Globalization

Publications:

Forthcoming. Muslims in Diaspora: Bangladeshis at Home and Abroad. Rutgers University Press.

Forthcoming. "The New Islam and Bangladeshi Youth in Britain and the U.S." Ethnic and Racial Studies.

2006. "Globalization and family". Special issue, International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Vol. 32, No. 2: 137-139.

2005. “South Asian Americans” In Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues ed. Pyong Gap Min. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.

2004. “Returning International Labor Migrants from Bangladesh: The Experience and Effects of Deportation”. Working Paper #28, Mellon-MIT Inter-University Program on NGOs and Forced Migration.

2002. Becoming Asian American: Identities of Second Generation Chinese and Korean Americans. Johns Hopkins University Press.

2000. Race, ethnic options and ethnic binds. Sociological Perspectives 43:77-95.

1998. The contested meanings of "Asian American": Racial dilemmas in the contemporary US. Ethnic and Racial Studies 21:939-958.

1997. The construction of "Asian American": reflections on intermarriage and ethnic identity among second generation Chinese and Korean Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies 20:523-544.

1995. Culture, class and income control in the lives of women garment workers in Bangladesh. Gender & Society 9:289-309.

1993. Family Tightrope: the Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton University Press.