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Nasra Shah
Biography
Nasra M. Shah is a Professor of Migration and Development at the Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan. She is the scientific director of the Gulf Labor Markets & Migration Program. Prof. Shah received her doctoral degree in Population Dynamics from the Johns Hopkins University, USA, in 1974. She was Professor of Demography at Kuwait University for over 30 years. She also worked in Hawaii, USA, at the East-West Population Institute and at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad. Her population related research has focused on various themes including the role of social factors in infant and child mortality; predictors of fertility and contraceptive use; women’s role and status; utilization of health services; and psychosocial and physical health of older persons.
Labor migration, especially from Asian to oil-rich Gulf countries, has been a consistent and very prominent theme in her research. Her many publications include books on Asian Labor Migration: Pipeline to the Middle East; Pakistani Women; Basic Needs, Women and Development; Population of Kuwait: Structure and Dynamics; Skillful Survivals: Irregular Migration to the Gulf; Migration to the Gulf: Policies in Sending and Receiving Countries; and Covid-19 Crisis and Asian Migration; Social Remittances and Social Change: Focus on Asia and the Middle East.
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