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Dr. Mashkoor Ahmad
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    Ph.D.

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Associate Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Migration, Urbanization, Population Ageing

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

    9717957220

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    mashkoor99@gmail.com

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    Time Table

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DEPARTMENT_STAFF.PROFILE

Mashkoor Ahmad has obtained his Ph.D. in Population Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. Previously he has worked as Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. He was awarded several fellowships including Junior Research Fellowship by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India; Sat Paul Mittal Fellowship by Indian Association of Parliamentarian on Population and Development, Research Fellowship by University Grants Commission, Government of India . He has also got German Govt’s Fellowship and was invited to work as Research Fellow at Centre of Economic Policy and International Economics, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He has also worked in projects sponsored by IDRC, and University of London. His papers have been published in journals of national and international repute. His research interests include but not limited to migration, urbanisation, education, religious minorities and marginalised communities.


  1. Key Publication

      1. Mashkoor Ahmad and Saxena, P. (2023). Ageing and Age Structural Transition in Major States of India from 1961 to 2011. Review of Regional Research. Springer, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10037-023-00191-8

      2. Mashkoor Ahmad (2022). Effect of Reservation Policy on Employment of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Public Sector. In: R. K. Kale and S. S. Acharya (Eds.). Mapping Identity-induced Marginalisation in India: Inclusion and Access in the Land of Unequal Opportunities.  Springer, Singapore.

      3. Mashkoor Ahmad (2019). Emigration from Uttar Pradesh to the Middle East. in S. I. Rajan and P. Saxena (Eds.) India’s Low-Skilled Migration to Middle East: Policies, Politics and Challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore, PP. 319-338, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9224-5_14

      4. Mashkoor Ahmad (2018). Access of Muslims to Education in Uttar Pradesh, India. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. Volume 38, No. 4, PP. 551-566, Taylor and Francis, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2018.1542179 

      5. Mashkoor Ahmad (2018). Characteristics of Urban Male Out-Migrants from Bijnor District, Uttar Pradesh. The Asian Man-An International Journal. Vol.12, No. 2, PP. 247-255, DOI: 10.5958/0975-6884.2018.00039.7 

      6. Mashkoor Ahmad (2017). Pattern and Determinants of Urban Male Out-Migrants from Bijnor District, Uttar Pradesh. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies. Volume 11, number 2, pp.74-97  

      7. Sukhadeo Thorat and Mashkoor Ahmad (2015). Minorities and Poverty: Why Some Minorities Are More Poor Than Others? Journal of Social Inclusion Studies. Vol. 1, No. 2, PP. 126-142, accessed through sage journals, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/2394481120150207