Amrita Datta is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen. Her project focuses on the transnational practices, motivations of immigration, and trends and prospects of the Indian immigrants in Germany including the latest entrants - Blue Card holders and Indian students in German universities. With the Covid-19 as the special lens, the project proposes to argue that the fast expanding Indian diaspora in Germany impacts the German social life at large and vice versa....

Roles

  • University of Siegen

    University, Siegen , Germany
    Marie Curie Fellow

  • Bielefeld University

    University, Bielefeld, Germany
    Lecturer and Researcher

  • University of Siegen

    University, Siegen, Germany
    Marie Curie Fellow

  • University of Cologne

    University, Cologne, Germany
    Visiting Lecturer

Research

Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Consumerist Encounters: Flirting With Things and Images

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2024
Journal Name International Sociology
1 Journal Article

Graphic migrations: precarity and gender in India and the diaspora

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2022
Journal Name Gender, Place & Culture
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3 Journal Article

Manjusha Nair, Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2019
Journal Name International Sociology
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4 Journal Article

Mediascape and Identity Reproduction and Sustenance: A Case of Indian Guest-Workers in Germany

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Media Critiques
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5 Journal Article

Guest Editor’s Introduction for Special Dossier on Uncertain Mobilities

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2024
Journal Name Migration and Diversity
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6 Journal Article

Do the Kerala nurses in Germany break the myth of migration as a male-space?

Authors Amrita Datta, Arani Basu
Year 2023
Journal Name Migration and Diversity
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7 Journal Article

Mobility as survival and freedom: Pandemic, Immobility and its implications for women and queer migrants

Authors Amrita Datta
Year 2022
Journal Name MIGRATION LETTERS
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8 Journal Article

Suggested Research

The Future of Urbanisation: Migration Policies in the Post-pandemic World

Authors S. Irudaya Rajan, Amrita Datta
Year 2024
Journal Name Urbanisation
1 Journal Article
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