Migration and Racism Research Fellow
Ashika has been involved in anti-discriminatory and community development
work since 1990 when she became involved as a volunteer with the Newham Monitoring
Project (NMP) where she later became employed as Director in 1997. Ashika
has worked with Asian women fleeing domestic violence at the Newham Asian
Women’s Project and with ex-offenders at NACRO. Ashika’s experience
in this country is complemented by her work with women’s human rights
groups in Croatia (Centre for Women War Victims) and in India (Asian Women’s
Human Rights Council) where she developed programmes to support refugee women
and children fleeing from war in the Balkans and to highlight the trafficking
of women and children across South Asia. Prior to joing the Institute, Ashika
was a freelance researcher, working on issues of race, gender and poverty
for organisations such as Oxfam UK Poverty Programme and Equalities Unit,
Croydon Council
