Payal Banerjee is Associate Professor of Sociology at Smith College, USA. Her research focuses on globalization, migration, and development. Banerjee's work on Indian immigrant IT workers in the US has appeared in Critical Sociology, Race, Gender, and Class, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Irish Journal of Anthropology, Women's Studies Quarterly, Social & Public Policy Review, and, Man in India, and in several edited volumes. Her research on the Chinese minorities in India and India-China relations has been published in Huaqiao Huaren Lishi Yanjiu (Overseas Chinese History Studies, in Mandarin), Security and Peace, China Report, and in the book Doing Time with Nehru. Her recent work on hydroelectric power projects (HEPs) in India has appeared in Perceptions and as a UNRISD Occasional Paper. Banerjee has been a research fellow at the BRICS Policy Center (BPC) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has taught at the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA), The New School in New York City, and in India at Sikkim University in Gangtok and at FLAME in Pune, as visiting faculty.