Bonded Labour in Pakistan

Part of the Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series Bonded labour in Pakistan brings together, for the first time, a collection of essays addressing bonded labour across different agricultural and industrial sectors in Pakistan. With contributions from prominent experts on labour issues and human rights activism, field researchers and ethnographers, and a leading legal scholar, the collection is a multi-disciplinary engagement with bonded labour in Pakistan as it has evolved over the last two decades.

Ali Khan, Dr, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS),Ayaz Ahmed Qureshi, Dr, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Dr Ali Khan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Department Chair at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research interests vary from labour issues, particularly child and bonded labour to popular culture in Pakistan focusing particularly on cinema and sports. He is also the Series Editor for Oxford University Press Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series. He has a MPhil and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in England.

Dr Ayaz Ahmed Qureshi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He received his PhD in Anthropology from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom in 2013. Prior to joining LUMS, he taught anthropology at SOAS, University of Sussex, and University of Oxford. His research interests include sexual and reproductive health, NGOs, bureaucracy, neo-liberalization, and Pakistani labour migration to the Persian Gulf. He has recently published articles in Journal of Royal Anthropological Society, Development and Change, Anthropology and Medicine, and Global Public Health.