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YEAR
2024

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of poverty
Gender and Social mobility
Malaysian Indian women

RESEARCH KEYWORD
Poverty, marginalisation, women
empowerment, capability approach, gender
inequality, gender beliefs ,intersectionality,
marginalisation of ethnic minorities, Malaysian
Indians.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Saigaran, N. G., & Thambiah, S. (2022). Malaysian
dr. Indian Women's Education and Their
Marginalisation: An Intersectional Analysis. In R.
Nithiya Guna Saigaran Nagappan & H. Mukherjee (Eds.), Malaysian Indians
and Education: Reimagined Development
nithiya@um.edu.my
Opportunities (pp. 100-119). Routledge.
Saigaran, N. G. (2022). The Impoverishment of
Malaysian Indian Women: A Capability Approach
EDUCATION Perspective. In P. Karupiah & J. L. Fernandez (Eds.),
PhD (Anthropology & Sociology) A Kaleidoscope of Malaysian Indian Women's Lived
Universiti Sains Malaysia Experiences (pp. xx-xx). Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5876-2_5.
MA (Sociology of Poverty)
Universiti Malaya Guna Saigaran, N., & Karupiah, P. (2022). Poverty
Among Malaysian Indian Women. In R. Baikady, S.
BA (Indian Studies & Gender Studies) Sajid, J. Przeperski, V. Nadesan, M. R. Islam, & J.
Universiti Malaya Gao (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global
Social Problems (pp. 1-16). Palgrave Macmillan.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_173-2.
UMEXPERT LINK
https://umexpert.um.edu.my/nithiya.html SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS
Secured early career and competitive research
RESEARCHER ID grants as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts
GOE-6530-2022 (Web of Science) and Social Sciences, University Malaya.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1660-7179 Published influential book chapters and journal
articles in prestigious platforms such as Routledge,
SCOPUS ID Springer Nature, and Palgrave MacMillan,
57995498000 significantly contributing to subjects like
marginalization, Malaysian Indian culture, and
family dynamics.

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