Yathu Yogarajah
Yathu Yogarajah
Back to ContentsYathu Yogarajah's research focuses on how financialisation, migrant labour, and violence are entangled. More specifically, his research documents the lives of those who fled the civil war in Sri Lanka, in search of a place to live and work, so that they can be safe and support family members back in Sri Lanka. His research ultimately explores how these dreams of safety are made use of by extractive economic machinery that seeks increasingly cheap labour.
My field setting
My fieldsite spans petrol stations, the homes of workers, the villages and towns workers have fled, as well as temples and community centres.
My key research questions
How does financial capitalism make use of the dreams and bodies of migrants and refugees?
My research findings
My work shows that financialised systems draw on violence and wars happening elsewhere, and the silent bodies they generate, to extract cheap labour and drive profits.
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