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

by rajan_shikha | Jun 23, 2024

This paper introduces the term zones of compounded informality to demarcate locations wherein regulatory exclusions in distinct domains interact to escalate the impact of exclusions for people who live and work in these areas. Based upon a study of India’sDelhi,...

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

by rajan_shikha | Jun 10, 2022

Persistent exploitation of farmworkers is a defining problem of our time. An estimated 32 percent of the global population is employed in agriculture. At the base of global food systems, agricultural workers sustain the world’s population while systematically excluded...

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

by rajan_shikha | Jun 10, 2022

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

by rajan_shikha | Jun 10, 2022

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

by rajan_shikha | Nov 14, 2020

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