Dr. Rimple Mehta is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Communities, 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 gender, (im)mobilities, punishment, and borders. Situating her research within the sub-field of border criminology, she adopts an intersectional feminist perspective with a strong emphasis on questions of epistemology, therefore viewing ‘reality’ from intersecting positions of marginality. She has worked with women in prisons and detention in India, Australia, and the Netherlands. She has written extensively about her work in books and several international journals. Prior to joining academia, she worked with organisations such as Swayam and networks such as Maitree against violence on women in West Bengal.
