Publications
MONOGRAPHS
New lives in Anand: Building a Muslim hub in western India. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 2022.
—> Also available in an open access edition, thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Jong in Dollywood: Hindostaanse jongeren en Indiase films. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis. 2005. This book is a popularised version of my award-winning Master thesis (2004, in Dutch) on the viewership of Indian cinema among young people of Surinamese-Indian descent in the Netherlands.
ARTICLES
IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Reorientation: Imagination and migration among Gujarati Muslims in India, the UK and the USA. Social Analysis. Accepted, 2026.
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from.”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 14 (1). 2024. [Free PDF]
Ultrashort, low-resolution and anonymous: Designing anthropological films for smartphone viewers. entanglements 3(1), 62-80. 2020.
#Corona: Distributing anthropological films during the pandemic. AllegraLab, October 8, 2020.
Communal living: Religion, class, and the politics of dwelling in small-town Gujarat. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 52(1), 53-78. 2018.
A global town in central Gujarat, India: Rural-urban connections and international migration. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 38(2), 230-245. 2015. [Free PDF]
Reflections on migration through film: Screening of an anthropological documentary on Indian youth in London. Visual Anthropology, 28(5), 398-421. 2015. [Free PDF]
Middling migration: Contradictory mobility experiences of Indian youth in London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(8), 1217-1235. 2014. [Free PDF]
book chapters
Reflexivity in Artistic Research and Visual Anthropology. In Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora- Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Esther Dessewffy, Bao- Chau Pham, Ariadne Avkıran and Kathleen Gregory (eds), Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2025.
Ethnocinematographic theory: How to develop migration theory through ethnographic filmmaking. In Karolina Nikielska-Sekula and Amandine Desille (eds.), Visual Methodology in Migration Studies: New Possibilities, Theoretical Implications, and Ethical Questions. Cham: Springer. 2021.
Versterken sociale media de democratie? In Dilemma: Maatschappijleer Methode voor de Bovenbouw (HAVO/VWO). Multimedia e-learning chapter for the Dutch civics school method Dilemma. 2019.
Moeten de media evenwichtig berichten over verschillende mensen in de samenleving? In Dilemma: Maatschappijleer Methode voor de Bovenbouw (HAVO/VWO). Multimedia e-learning chapter for the Dutch civics school method Dilemma. 2019.
Frustrations and alliances: The politics of migrant funding for Muslim education in central Gujarat. In Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten and Leah Koskimaki (eds.), Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics. London: Routledge. 2018. [PDF]
Starting migration: Emerging migration patterns among the Muslim middle class of Charotar. In Amrapali Merchant (ed.), Impact of Diaspora. Vallabh Vidyanagar: NRG Foundation and Sardar Patel University. 2012.
Bollywood and the Indian diaspora. In Gijsbert Oonk (ed.), Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 211-234. 2008. [PDF]
Book reviews
Review of Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2026. [PDF]
Review of Rethinking markets in modern India: Embedded exchange and contested jurisdiction, edited by A. Gandhi, B. Harriss-White, D. E. Haynes and S. Schwecke, in Ethnos, 2022. [PDF]
Review of Documentary film in India: an anthropological history, G. Battaglia, in Social Anthropology - Anthropologie Sociale, 2020. [PDF]
Review of Methodologies of mobility: ethnography and experiment, A. Elliot, R. Norum and N. B. Salazar (eds.), in Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale, 2018. [PDF]
Review of Capital, interrupted: agrarian development and the politics of work in India, V. Gidwani, in International Review of Social History, 2011. [PDF]
