I am a historian of Modern Imperial Britain, and I research migration, citizenship, and the welfare state in the twentieth century. My book on how the welfare state shaped British multiculturalism will be published by Oxford University Press. I have published book chapters on late imperial colonial development and welfare services for Asian women. I also wrote "Performing Multiculturalism: The Commonwealth Arts Festival of 1965" for The Journal of British Studies and co-edited a thematic issue of Modern British History on Race and Twentieth Century British History. My article, “The ‘Bogus Child’ and the ‘Big Uncle:’ The Impossible South Asian Family in Britain, examined the history of male youth dependants from South Asia in order to consider the position of South Asians in British racial formation.