Pritu Saha
Current Organizations / Institutes
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Pritu Saha has a total of 4 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Afrin Prio
Department of Engineering Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 shared publication - Dipto Das
Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 shared publication - Shion Guha
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1 shared publication - Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
1 shared publication
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 13 April 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 1-19
How do the Global South Diasporas Mobilize for Transnational Political Change?
This paper examines how non-resident Bangladeshis mobilized during the 2024 quota-reform turned pro-democracy movement, leveraging social platforms and remittance flows to challenge state authority. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we identify four phases of their collective action: technology-mediated shifts to active engagement, rapid transnational network building, strategic execution of remittance boycott, reframing economic dependence as political leverage, and adaptive responses to government surveillance and information blackouts. We extend postcolonial computing by introducing the idea of “diasporic superposition," which shows how diasporas can exercise political and economic influence from hybrid positionalities that both contest and complicate power asymmetries. We reframe diaspora engagement by highlighting how migrants participate in and reshape homeland politics, beyond narratives of integration in host countries. We advance the scholarship on financial technologies by foregrounding their relationship with moral economies of care, state surveillance, regulatory constraints, and uneven international economic power dynamics. Together, these contributions theorize how transnational activism and digital technologies intersect to mobilize political change in Global South contexts.
- 13 April 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- p. 1-19
Open AccessHow do the Global South Diasporas Mobilize for Transnational Political Change?
This paper examines how non-resident Bangladeshis mobilized during the 2024 quota-reform turned pro-democracy movement, leveraging social platforms and remittance flows to challenge state authority. Drawing on semi-structured interviews, we identify four phases of their collective action: technology-mediated shifts to active engagement, rapid transnational network building, strategic execution of remittance boycott, reframing economic dependence as political leverage, and adaptive responses to government surveillance and information blackouts. We extend postcolonial computing by introducing the idea of “diasporic superposition," which shows how diasporas can exercise political and economic influence from hybrid positionalities that both contest and complicate power asymmetries. We reframe diaspora engagement by highlighting how migrants participate in and reshape homeland politics, beyond narratives of integration in host countries. We advance the scholarship on financial technologies by foregrounding their relationship with moral economies of care, state surveillance, regulatory constraints, and uneven international economic power dynamics. Together, these contributions theorize how transnational activism and digital technologies intersect to mobilize political change in Global South contexts.