Dr. Antara Datta

Royal Holloway, University of London

Expertise on

Countries: India, Pakistan & Bangladesh 
Policy Areas & Themes: Refugees, Migration, Citizenship, Gender & Diaspora 

Bio

Antara Datta is an Associate Professor in International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book examined the refugee crisis arising out of the Bangladesh War of 1971 and its impact on the eastern border.  She has also written about the consequences of this for newer citizenship debates in India around the CAA and the NRC. Her subsequent work has focussed on refugees and evacuees in South Asia during World War II as well as questions around the body and family amongst the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Antara is the founder and convenor of the Beyond Partition Working Group and has written and spoken about the legacies of forced migration in the subcontinent. 

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special research expertise on

• Partition

• Consequences of civil war and creation of Bangladesh, 1971

• The Citizenship Amendment Act

Engagement experience includes

• Writing and speaking in periodicals/news websites and on podcasts

Read a sample of antara’s research outputs

Refugees and Borders in South Asia: The Great Exodus of 1971

Bordering Assam Through Affective Closure: 1971 and the road to the citizenship amendment act of 2019

Scattered Memories of 1971

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