Academic Qualification
- BA: Political Science Honours (Handique Girls’ College, Guwahati)
- MA: Sociology (Ambedkar University Delhi)
- MPhil: Social Sciences (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati)
- PhD (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati)
Worked at
- The Migration News (TMN) along with the collaboration of GRFDT as Managing Editor till 2023.
Career Highlights & Awards:
Workshops attended:
- Modular workshop (Academic writing, Data analysis & Report writing) conducted by TISS Guwahati
- Research methodology (Teaching & Learning Centre) conducted by Tezpur University
- 4th Orientation Course on Migration by TISS.
Paper presentations/Seminars/National-International Conferences:
- Young Social Scientists Meet conducted by OKDISCD (Guwahati, Assam)
- Seminar on Role of Women in Peace Processes conducted by NESRC, (Guwahati, Assam)
- 60th Labour Economics Conference (Paper: Work, women & re-imagined identities in Sualkuchi, Assam) conducted by ISLE, held in IGIDR- Mumbai
- Young Scholars Conference- Space, Knowledge & Capital (Paper: Weavers in motion: A study of migrated lives in Handloom Karkhana in North-east India) conducted by JNU.
- International Conference on Mobile Phones, Gender and Society (Paper: Gender and Society: Emerging Realities and Feminist Perspectives) conducted by TISS-Mumbai (school of media & cultural studies) & University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Dept. of Social Anthropology).
- International conference onLabour Markets in Eastern Himalayas and North East India: Changing Patterns and Emerging Issues (Work and Labour process in manufacturing industry in north-east India: A study of Cement industry in Sonapur, Assam) conducted by TISS-Guwahati funded by International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD)
Areas of Interest
- Migration, resistance
- Development
- Urbanization
- Work
- Development
- Research methodology
- Labour process
- Manufacturing industry
- Sociology of everyday lives
- Family and kinship
Publication and Books
- Chapter in an edited volume named- “Employment & Labour Market in North-East India”, where the title of the chapter is “Work, Control and Mobility in the Manufacturing Industry in Assam” In an edited volume published by Routledge (ISBN: 978-1-138-55037-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429- 44702-0 (ebk).
- The Challenge of Industry 4.0 for India and South Asian countries and issues of just transition for workers: Automotive Sector. Author: Rakhi Sehgal Research Assistance provided by Piyali Bhowmick
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/news/working-scenario-during-the-pandemic-a-study-offive-migrant-domestic-workers-in-guwahati-assam/
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/2021/09/01/migration-at-work/
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/2021/10/31/temporary-people-deepak-unnikrishnan-2017-brooklyn-restless-books-9781632061423-243-pages/
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/2021/08/17/indias-cycling-migrants-a-tale-ofhomecoming/
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/2021/10/16/leaving-home-the-pain-of-separation-andloss-of-identity-of-migrants/
- https://www.themigrationnews.com/news/policy-intervention-and-making-migration-a-part-ofthe-development-plan-review-of-the-progress-of-gcm/
