Anindita Chatterjee is an anthropologist whose work engages with the disciplines of Sociology,
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Health studies. Her research focuses on themes
of informal labour, migration, urbanisation, public health and ageing. After obtaining her Ph.D.
in 2019 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, she has held research appointments at Max Weber
Stiftung IBO that was funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education, and at the
Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Dr Chatterjee has taught in India,
Bangladesh, the United Arab Emirates and the United States, and she possesses more than ten
years of experience in conducting research in multiple sites in India, Bangladesh, and the
United States.
Dr Chatterjee’s research encompasses an examination of social inequalities, cultural and
political conflicts, and evolving nature of urban spaces around situated contexts. Anindita
Chatterjee’s book: Attachment, Aspiration and Inequality in Domestic labour in India: The
Bonds of Service (Routledge, UK, 2026), examines how affect operates within structures of
inequality, shaping both agency and vulnerability between female migrant workers and
employers in three cities in India. Besides studying employer-worker relations, the project
broadens its scope to focus on worker relations in their own squatter settlements to explore the
construction of gender identities. Dr. Chatterjee’s current project explores on ageing, wellbeing
and migration. She looks at the intersection of ageing and migration, especially for migrant
workers, and plan to undertake policy studies to reduce social discrimination and stratification
among elderly lower income group people who lack access to welfare schemes in the informal
labour market.
Dr. Chatterjee has presented her research findings at multiple international and national
conferences over the past sixteen years and she also has a record of producing collaborative
research with an international and local network of scholars.