Sanam Roohi is an associate fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen and serves as the co-editor in chief of Comparative Migration Studies. Her research focuses on social-spatial mobility linkages, embodied migration infrastructures and the transnational political economy of care. Roohi has been awarded various fellowships, including the KWI International Fellowship (2023), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2020-2023), Marie Curie COFUND Fellowship (2018 - August 2020), and SSRC InterAsia...

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • Kulturwissenschaftiches Institut

    Research Institute, Essen, Germany
    Fellow

  • Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen

    Research Institute, Essen, Germany
    International Fellow

  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Centre for Modern Indian Studies

    Other, Gottingen, Germany
    Alexander von Humboldt fellow

  • Universität Erfurt Max Weber Kolleg für kultur und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien

    Other, Erfurt, Germany
    Marie Curie COFUND fellow

  • St Joseph's College

    Other, Bangalore, India
    Assistant Professor

  • National Institute of Advanced Studies

    Research Institute, Bengaluru, India
    Research Associate

  • Calcutta Research Group

    Other, Kolkata, India
    Research Associate

Research

Transnational Giving and Evolving Religious, Ethnic and Political Formations in the Global South

Authors Sanam Roohi, Catherine Larouche, Leilah Vevaina
Year 2023
Journal Name Ethnography
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3 Journal Article

The elite as the political adversary

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2023
Book Title The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism
4 Book Chapter

2. Unbelonging as a Postcolonial Predicament

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2023
Book Title Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe
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5 Book Chapter

Comparative perspectives on migration, diversities and the pandemic

Authors Magdalena Arias Cubas, Anju Mary Paul, Jacques Ramírez, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
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6 Journal Article

Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Contemporary Asia
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7 Journal Article

In Diasporic Lands: Tibetan Refugees and Their Transformation Since the Exodus. By Sudeep Basu

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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8 Journal Article

Care as everyday peacebuilding

Authors Tiina Vaittinen, Amanda Donahoe, Rahel Kunz, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Peacebuilding
9 Journal Article

Historicizing Mobility Trajectories of Highskilled Migrants from Coastal Andhra to the United States

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics
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10 Journal Article

Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research1

Authors Annick T R Wibben, Catia Cecilia Confortini, Sanam Roohi, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name International Political Sociology
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11 Journal Article

Efficient Donors, Meritorious Receivers: Professionalizing transnational philanthropy in coastal Andhra

Authors SANAM ROOHI
Year 2018
Journal Name Modern Asian Studies
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12 Journal Article

Caste, kinship and the realisation of ‘American Dream’: high-skilled Telugu migrants in the U.S.A.

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
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13 Journal Article

Governmentalizing NRI Philanthropy in Andhra Pradesh: A Transregional Approach to India’s Development

Authors Sanam Roohi
Year 2017
Book Title Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism
14 Book Chapter

Love in the times of Hindutva (Part 1)

Authors Sanam Roohi
Journal Name KWI-Blog
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16 Journal Article

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