Publications

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Threaded Insecurity: The Spectrum of Informality on Garment Supply Chains. Asia Floor Wage Alliance, March 2024.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Broken Promises: Forced Labour in Saudi Arabia and the Fast Tracked World Cup Bid, Equidem, June 2024.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Unjust Transitions: Climate Migration, Heat Stress, and Labour Exploitation in the United Arab Emirates, Equidem 2023.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “We work like robots”: Discrimination and Exploitation of Migrant Workers in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Hotels, Equidem, 2022.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “If we complain, we are fired”: Discrimination and Exploitation of Migrant Construction Workers on FIFA World Cup Stadium Sites, Equidem, 2022.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Purushottam Kumar and Shahid Ullah, Women Workers in the Asian Seafood Processing Industry: Case Studies from Bangladesh and India, Society for Labour and Development and Karmojibi Nari, 2022.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Zones of Compounded Informality: Migrants in the Megacity,” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 2023, 1-15.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Nidhi Goyal, and Srinidhi Raghavan, Disability, Equity, Justice White Paper, Civil20, India, July 2023.

Dev Nathan, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Purushottam Kumar, Sukhpal Singh, Padmini Swaminathan, Rahul S., Reversed Subsidies: Gender, Labour, and Environmental Injustice in Garment Value Chains, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act: A Litigation Guide and Compilation of Judgements, Second Edition, Kolkata: Seagull Books, 2019 (first edition published in 2014).

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Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Bitter Harvest: Supply Chain Oppression and Legal Exclusion of Agricultural Workers,” 2023 U. ILL. L. REV. (August 2023).

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Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Regulating Recruitment: Migration, criminalization, and compounded informality,” U. PA. Asian L. Rev. (expected 2022).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Migrant Labor Supply Chains: Architectures of Mobile Assemblages,” Social and Legal Studies, 1-22 (2022).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Gendered Technologies of Power: Experiencing and Unmaking Borderscapes in South Asia,” Berkeley Planning Journal, Volume 29: 45-78 (2017).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Legal Protections for Migrant ‘Trainees’ in Japan: Using International Standards to Evaluate Shifts in Japanese Immigration Policy,” 35 U. PA. J. INT’L 4 (2014).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Distant Silences and Default Judgments: Access to Justice for Transnationally Abandoned Women,” 15 U. PA. J.L. SOC. CHANGE (2013).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “End Gender Based Violence and Harassment – Gender Justice on Global Supply Chains: An Agenda to Transform Fast Fashion” in ed. Francisco Valdes, Steven Bender, and Jennifer Hill, Critical Justice: Systemic Advocacy in Law and Society, West Academic, 2021.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Fast Fashion, production targets, and gender-based violence in Asian garment supply chains,” in Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh After Rana Plaza, ed. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena, New York: Routledge, 2020.

Alexa Koenig, Felix McMahon, Nikita Mehandru, and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, “Open Source Fact-Finding in Preliminary Examinations,” in Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Volume 2, ed. Morten Bergsmo and Carsten Stahn, Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2018.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee and Alysha Khambay, Unbearable harassment: The fashion industry and widespread abuse of female garment workers in Indian factories, Asia Floor Wage Alliance, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, and Society for Labour and Development, April 2022.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Advancing Freedom of Association for Farm Workers: The Role of ILO Convention 11 in Addressing the Legal Exclusion of Agricultural Workers from Labor Law Protections, IUF and Global Labor Justice-International Labor Rights Forum, 2021.

Katerina Yiannibas, Lance Compa, Ben Hensler, Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, JJ Rosenbaum, Model Arbitration Clauses for the Resolution of Disputes Under Enforceable Brand Agreements, 2020, available online from International Lawyers Assisting Workers Network (ILAW).

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Guidance on Joint Committees: The Exercise of Employee Participation Rights in Qatar, International Labour Organization, 2019.

Series: Reports to the International Labor Conference on Gender Based Violence and Harassment on Garment Supply Chains, 2018-2020

Nidhi Goyal and Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Invisible Victims of Sexual Violence: Access to Justice for Women and Girls with Disabilities in India, Human Rights Watch, 2018.

Series: Reports to the International Labour Conference Committee on Decent work in global supply chains, 2016

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, India’s Labour Law Changes, Society for Labour and Development, 2016.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, The plight of Indian migrant workers and policy recommendations for safe migration, International Labour Organization, 2016.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Migrant Workers at the Margins: Access to Rights and Entitlements for Migrants in India, Society or Labour and Development, 2016.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Practices of Change: Addressing Equity and Inclusion for Dalits in South Asia, European Union, 2015.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee, Cleaning Human Waste: Manual Scavenging, Caste, and Discrimination in India, Human Rights Watch, 2014.

Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee and Jael Silliman, Transforming Development Practice: Taking a Gender Equality Approach to Support Rural Women in Advancing their Social, Economic, and Political Rights, UN Fund for Gender Equality, 2014.