Sareeta Amrute (PhD 2008, U of Chicago)

Research Interests:
Sociocultural anthropology and science and technology studies, Information Technology, history of the present, theories of circulation, race and gender; South Asia

"I explore the relationship between India and IT (Information Technology). I received my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and my dissertation, “Producing Mobility”, uses fieldwork conducted in Germany to understand how Indian IT workers create circulating economies of code and culture from which they are partially excluded. “Producing Mobility” is an investigation of challenges to German ideas of nation and migration at the same time that it is a study of how Indian IT workers convert their time abroad into sustainable forms of kinship and connectivity at home. In the near future I will look at the way India’s IT boom affects the lives of service and other support workers in India. I will investigate patterns of work and social imaginaries among lower caste and class workers employed by software and outsourcing firms so as to trace the way class and caste relations may be changing in urban India."

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Selected Publications:
2008	Producing Mobility: Indian IT workers in Germany, Doctoral Dissertation, University of Chicago
2004	“The Migration and Humanitarian Programs of Australia,” in Blaschke, Jochen, ed. Migration Policies in Comparative Perspective. Edition Parabolis: Berlin.
2002	Amrute, Sareeta and Pfomann, Shannon. “Introduction,” “Towards Harmonization: Burden Sharing and Decentralization in Austria,” and with Schlenzka, Natalie, “Refugee Decentralization: Denmark,” in Blaschke, Jochen, and Pfomann, Shannon, eds. Decentralization of Asylum, Refugee Reception Procedures in the European Union, Edition Parabolis:Berlin.
1997	Globalization, edited by Arjun Appadurai, Durham: Duke, 2001.  Review Essay, South Asia Newsletter, University of Chicago, 2001.