Amrita Datta

Amrita Datta is an Assistant Professor of Development Studies at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). Her research focuses on migration and mobilities, agrarian change, gender and development, rural development, and longitudinal studies.

• PhD: Development Studies from International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam
• M.Phil: Development Studies from University of Cambridge
• M.A.: Social Work (Urban and Rural Community Development) from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
• B.A. (Honours): Economics from Lady Shriram College for Women, University of Delhi

Amrita has published extensively in journals like the Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Gender Studies, and Economic and Political Weekly. Her book Migration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience (Routledge 2024) examines labor migration through a longitudinal study on rural Bihar. She is currently working on a book based on the Odisha Migration Study 2023, funded by the CGIAR Gender Platform.

Amrita has previously worked at Flame University, Institute for Human Development, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and the Indian School of Microfinance for Women. Her research connects agrarian transformations with gendered labor dynamics in India’s neoliberal development context.