Amrita Saikia

Dr. Amrita Saikia is a researcher based in India. From 2023 to 2024, Dr. Saikia conducted her postdoctoral research on women and peacebuilding funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation,  Cologne, at the Institute for Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies,  Hamburg, Germany. Dr. Saikia’s research interests lie at the interstices of forced  displacement, refugees, conflicts, peace, gender, and women. Her recent monograph, Gender,  Nation, and Nationalism: Perspectives of Tibetan Women in Exile (Routledge, 2025), is based on her doctoral research conducted at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.