Publications

A.S., Sandhya, 2026. "Beyond Binaries. A Reflective Approach to Status-Contract Distinction in the Study of Cross-Border Labour Markets", (RTG 2951 Working Papers, 2). Bielefeld: Research Training Group 2951 “Cross-Border Labour Markets: Transnational Market Makers, Infrastructures, Institutions” (Universität Bielefeld / Universität Duisburg-Essen). 

A.S., Sandhya, 2026. “Space Matters: Marketplace and Interactional Order in the Nepalese 'Manpower Bazaar'”. Economic Anthropology, 13(1). 

A.S., Sandhya, 2025. "'Managing' Welfare: Labour Migration and the Social Question in Nepal". Studies in Nepali History & Society, 30(1).

A.S., Sandhya, 2025. "Immobilized Markets: Perception, Experience, and Response of Migration Brokers to State-induced Immobility." In Fragility of Global Migration: Exploring a Constitutive Aspect of Migratory Forms, pp. 37-56. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

A.S., Sandhya, 2025. "Waiting: Social Meanings of Immobility in Kathmandu, Nepal." in Kathmandu: A reader edited by Benjamin Linder. Kathmandu: Martin Chautari

A.S., Sandhya, 2024. "Cutting down and stocking up: how migration brokers negotiate mobility disruptions." Applied Mobilities 9, no. 4 (2024): 375-391.

A.S., Sandhya, 2023. "Making mobility a market: An economic sociology of migration brokerage." PhD diss., International Max Planck Research School of Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, University of Duisburg-Essen.

A.S., Sandhya, 2022. "Waiting: Social Meanings of Immobility in Kathmandu, Nepal". Asien: The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, (162/163), 58-76.

A.S., Sandhya, & Adkar, Chitra. 2022. "Humorous Masculinity: Nepali men in mediated Indian male gaze". In Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia (pp. 139-155). Routledge India.

Basnet, C, & Sandhya A.S., 2020. "Female employers and their maids in New Delhi: ‘This is our culture". South Asia Research, 40(2), 282-298.

Basnet, C, & Sandhya A.S., 2020. "Nepali domestic workers in New Delhi: Strategies and agency". Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology, 13, 49-57.