Dr. Anuradha Sen Mookerjee
Dr. Anuradha Sen Mookerjee
Senior Fellow
anuradha.senmookerjee@ihdindia.org
Dr Anuradha Sen Mookerjee is a sociologist with public policy experience. She has strong research interests in the study of risk and how people negotiate and navigate changing space and place. She works on the empirical sites of ecosociality, migration, gender, and the borderlands. She is Director for the Research Programme on RiverCities and Sustainability in India at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Between 2000-2010, she worked on gender and development in South Asia. In 2004, she set up UNDP India’s Community of Practice on Gender, as part of the United Nations Knowledge Management Partnership Initiative in India. As Regional Programme Officer at the United Nations Development Fund for Women South Asia Office, she coordinated the UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) and UNODC ( United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes) led South Asia Anti-Trafficking Think Tank (2008-2010) that was a high-level dialogue mechanism of national governments of SAARC ( South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation), regional UN agencies and civil society organizations working on anti-human trafficking in South Asia. Through 2007-2010, she represented UNIFEM globally at the Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons (ICAT), a policy forum mandated by the UN General Assembly to improve coordination among UN agencies and other international organizations to facilitate a comprehensive global approach to prevent and combat trafficking in persons. She is a contributor to the International Framework for Action to Implement the Trafficking in Persons Protocol published by United Nations Office of Drugs and Crimes, Vienna in 2009. She has a PhD in Anthropology and Sociology of Development from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland, M. Phil ( JNU) and MA ( Delhi University) in Sociology and a MA in Public Administration from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where she was a Li Ka-Shing Scholar. She is Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Human Development, published by Sage India. Her latest publications include, ‘Political Economy of Migration in the India–Bangladesh Borderlands: Identity, Labour and Affect in the Former Chhit Mahals in Cooch Behar’, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics (2024), pp.1-20 and ‘Circular Labour Migration and Women in the Indian Sundarbans: Subjective Experiences of Gendered Belonging’ in South Asia Migration Report 2024, Edited by Irudaya Rajan, Routledge (Forthcoming). Her research interests are on Qualitative Research Methods, Environmental Sociology, Migration and Mobilities.