Academic Publications 

Books

• Datta, Amrita, Ngeh, Jonathan and Basu, Arani ed. (2026). Pandemics and Mobilities, Brill: Leiden 

• Datta, A. (2025). Geschichten indischer Einwanderergemeinschaften in Deutschland: Warum umziehen? Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. (German edition of Why Move?) 

• Datta, A. (2023). Stories of Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move?, Palgrave Macmillan: Cham 

Reviews in International Sociology, Nidān: International Journal for Indian Studies, Society and Culture in South Asia, The Wire, Doing Sociology  

Journal special issue

• Datta, A. ed. (2026). Agenting Visibility and Oral History: Scholars of Colour and Critical Positioning in the European Academy (special issue) in Nidan: International Journal for Indian Studies

• Datta, A. ed. (2024). Uncertain Mobilities (special issue) in Migration and Diversity Journal, Vol. 3 (2) 

Peer reviewed articles

• Datta, A. (2025). Debunking Methodological Colonialism through New Migration: Indian Highly Skilled Migrants as Global Talend in Germany.  

• Datta, A. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue "Uncertain Mobilities" in Migration and Diversity, Vol. 23, No. 2 

• Datta, A. et al. (2023) Saffronization of a Land: Is it possible to separate Hinduism from Hindutva in India?, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 14, Issue 1/2    

• Datta, A. et al. (2023) Kerala Nurses in Germany: From Heteronormativity to Transnational Patriarchy, Migration and Diversity, Vol. 2, Issue 3 

• Datta, A. (2022). Mobility as survival and freedom: Pandemic, Immobility and its implications for women and queer migrants. Migration Letters, 19(6), 791-799.  

• Datta, A. (2020). Does Covid-19 Facilitate New Migration: Exploring a Fast-expanding Indian Diaspora in Germany, Boasblog/Witnessing Corona

• Datta, A. (2017). Mediascape and Identity Reproduction and Sustenance: A Case of Indian Guest-workers in Germany, Journal of Media Critique, Vol 3, Issue 12, pp. 213-225.

• Datta, A. (2016). Ethnoscape-Financescape Interface: Work Space Experiences for Indian Guest-Workers in Germany, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol.6, Issue 1, March, pp. 51-68. 

• Soyler, T., Basu, A., Datta, A. (2016). Hindistan'dan tanıdık bir hikâye, Birikim Dergisi, Vol. 10, pp. 106-114.

• Datta, A. (2014). The Left Debacle in Lok Sabha 2014: A Critical Overview, Mainstream Weekly, Vol. LII, No.25, pp. 51-57.

• Datta, A. (2014). ‘Adda’ as the Locale of Bengali Public Sphere: From Coffee House to Barista, West Bengal Sociological Review, Volume III, pp. 17-25. 

Book reviews

• Datta, A. (2024). review of Consumerist Encounter by Sreedeep Bhattacharya in International Sociology, 39(2), 181-183.  

• Datta,  A.  (2023).  review of  Ullah,  AKM.  A.,  &  Chattoraj,  D.  (2022).  COVID-19  pandemic  and  the migrant  population  in  Southeast  Asia:  Vaccine,  diplomacy  and  disparity. Advances  in  Southeast  Asian Studies, 16(1), 171-174.

• Datta, A. (2022). review of Graphic migrations: precarity and gender in India and the diaspora, Gender, Place & Culture, DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2022.2051318 

• Datta, A. (2019). review of Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India (by Manjusha Nair) in International Sociology, Volume: 34 issue: 2, pp. 175-178. 

Interview

• Datta, A. (2021). Can Blue Collar Migrants Survive City Lives Amidst Covid-19?: A Conversation with Nina Glick Schiller, Transcience: A Journal of Global Studies, Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2021.