Mehta, Rimple

Western Sydney University

Rimple Mehta is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University. She has previously worked at the School of Social Work, Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai and School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research and field engagements broadly focus on women in prison, refugee women, and human trafficking. She engages with questions of borders, citizenship and criminology of mobility. Her monograph titled “Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border” was published by Routledge in 2018. Her latest co-edited volume published by Orient BlackSwan is titled “Women, Incarcerated: Narratives from India”. She has worked with women in prisons/detention in Mumbai, Kolkata, Sydney and The Netherlands.

Contributions

• Southern Perspectives on Border Criminology

  Editorial

  Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023)

• A Southern Feminist Approach to the Criminology of Mobility

  Special Issue. Southern Perspectives on Border Criminology

  Vol. 12 No. 2 (2023)