Sunanda Das

Research Scholar
Affiliation(s): 
Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Department: 
School of Social Sciences
Email: 
hp2020ss008@stud.tiss.edu
Research thematic keywords: 
Digital dispersion, relocation, flexibility, transnationalism, ICTs, new media, social media.
Research region keywords: 
Diasporas and Globalization, Identity, Power, relations with homeland.

My area of research is the ‘’life of women workers in tea gardens: a case of North
Bengal’’. The tea industry in Bengal was facing an existential crisis in the mid-1990s
due to high production costs and the influx of cheaper teas from South Asian countries like Sri Lanka and China. Several studies show that in the post-colonial era, plantation workers migrated from India to landlocked South Asian countries such as Sri Lanka and Nepal. There are push and pull factors for this large-scale migration of laborers as well as the forces that bound them to the tea plantations for generations. Through my research, I want to find out why they migrated from the Indian tea estates to the newly established South Asian tea estates just to better themselves or are there other reasons for their migration? Are these migrant tea estate workers lucky enough to benefit from the ''dual labor market theory''? Are they suitable for the neoclassical economic perspective?

As research is inherently interdisciplinary, I love to be involved through
numerous governments to improve/expand my research methods and ability to
collaborate through colleagues after numerous educations. I am enthusiastic to
customise my services to solve multifaceted issues to accommodate the
demands/needs of upcoming colleagues.
continue to be fascinated by researching the Canadian media as they tend to
collect reductive images of South Asians while standardizing the mixed
community. South Asian issues see themselves, outside the economic authority
of emphasizing "national differences" by the usual example of unstable around
controlled individualities. There are governments of globalization alongside
migration/relocation. Actual energizing opinions of the South Asian diaspora are
race and ethnicity. Race is not understood by emigrants and mainstream South
Asian residents as a creative basis for creating individuality. The endeavor to
reproduce "ethnicity" is regularly completely or unsurprisingly acknowledged,
while "race" is recognized as a difficult distinction that promotes home.