Amrita Datta is the author of Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). The German edition of the book was published in January 2025 by Springer Nature.
A Sociologist, Amrita's research and teaching focus primarily on skilled migration, (im)mobility, gender, media, pandemic mobilities, Global Talent migration and decoloniality in migration research methods. Currently, she is based at the Department of Sociology, Bielefeld University in Germany where she teaches on new migration, gendering mobilities, and migration and digital media.
Amrita is also a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle and an Associate Member at the Global South Studies Centre (GSSC), Cologne.
Earlier, she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the Department for Sociology, University of Siegen and ran a project on the transnational practices, motivations of immigration, and trends and prospects of the Indian immigrants in Germany.
Contact: amrita.datta@uni-bielefeld.de
