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{{short description|Indian sociologist and ethnographer}}
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'''Amrita Pande''' is an Indian sociologist and feminist [[ethnographer]] based in [[South Africa]], tenured as a professor at the [[University of Cape Town]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Monama|first=Tebogo|date=28 August 2020|title=Young Afrikaans women travelling around the world to sell their eggs for up to R50k|url=https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/young-afrikaans-women-travelling-around-the-world-to-sell-their-eggs-for-up-to-r50k-abbdba44-4b25-4b02-8f34-92cdd44c8a70|access-date=2020-11-23|website=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]]|language=en}}</ref> She was the first to publish a detailed ethnographical study on the [[surrogacy]] industry in India with her book ''Wombs in Labor'' (2014).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Pande|first=Amrita|url=http://cup.columbia.edu/book/wombs-in-labor/9780231169905|title=Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|year=2014|isbn=978-0-231-53818-3}}</ref> Pande has also been appointed as the lead for the [[National Research Foundation (South Africa)|National Research Foundation]] project into the surrogacy industry of South Africa.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Nicolson|first=Ambre|date=18 November 2019|title=Flows in the global fertility market|url=http://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2019-11-18-flows-in-the-global-fertility-market|access-date=2020-11-23|website=[[University of Cape Town]]|language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Pande was born in India to an academic family and graduated from the [[University of Delhi]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in economics followed by a [[Master of Arts]] at the [[Delhi School of Economics]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Bernardo|first=Carla|date=17 August 2020|title=Distinguished teacher Amrita Pande's classroom is her theatre|url=http://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2020-08-17-distinguished-teacher-amrita-pandes-classroom-is-her-theatre|access-date=2020-11-23|website=[[University of Cape Town]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Amrita Pande|url=http://www.sociology.uct.ac.za/amrita-pande|access-date=2020-11-23|website=Department of Sociology|publisher=[[University of Cape Town]]|language=en}}</ref> She states that the practice and curriculum at the premier but inflexible and apolitical institute killed her interest in the field and from which she sough refuge through the discipline of sociology.<ref name=":2" /> Eventually, she earned a Master of Arts from the [[University of Massachusetts]] and completed her doctoral studies in transnational surrogacy, sustained by a fellowship from the public university.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

She conducted her post doctoral research among African domestic workers in [[Tripoli, Lebanon]] and was eventually tenured as a lecturer at the [[University of Cape Town]] in 2010.<ref name=":2" /> Between 2010 and 2014, she would occasionally visit India for her research into transnational commercial surrogacy and eventually published ''Wombs in Labor'' in 2014.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|last=Rabinowitz|first=Abby|date=2016-04-28|title=The trouble with renting a womb {{!}} Abby Rabinowitz|language=en-GB|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/28/paying-for-baby-trouble-with-renting-womb-india|access-date=2020-11-23|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The work was published and described by the [[Columbia University Press]] as the first detailed ethnographical study into the transnational surrogacy industry in India.<ref name=":0" /> Her work has also been cited in an ''[[Yale Law Journal]]'' paper on anti-discrimination and family law.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=NeJamie|first=Douglas|date=June 2017|title=The Nature of Parenthood|url=https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-nature-of-parenthood|journal=[[Yale Law Journal]]|volume=126|pages=8}}</ref>

Pande's works have been published in a number of international journals including ''[[Anthropologica]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2015-05-09|title=Blood, Sweat and Dummy Tummies: Kin Labour and Transnational Surrogacy in India|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/581027|journal=[[Anthropologica]]|language=en|volume=57|issue=1|pages=53–62|issn=2292-3586|via=[[Project MUSE]]}}</ref> ''[[Qualitative Sociology]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2009-09-25|title="It May Be Her Eggs But It's My Blood": Surrogates and Everyday Forms of Kinship in India|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-009-9138-0|journal=[[Qualitative Sociology]]|language=en|publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]]|volume=32|issue=4|pages=379–397|doi=10.1007/s11133-009-9138-0|s2cid=143835339|issn=1573-7837}}</ref> ''[[Current Sociology]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2016-03-01|title=Global reproductive inequalities, neo-eugenics and commercial surrogacy in India|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392115614786|journal=[[Current Sociology]]|language=en|publisher=[[SAGE Journals]]|volume=64|issue=2|pages=244–258|doi=10.1177/0011392115614786|s2cid=147070477|issn=0011-3921}}</ref> ''[[Critical Social Policy]]'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2014-08-01|title='I prefer to go back the day before tomorrow, but I cannot': Paternalistic migration policies and the 'global exile'|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018314526008|journal=[[Critical Social Policy]]|language=en|publisher=[[SAGE Journals]]|volume=34|issue=3|pages=374–393|doi=10.1177/0261018314526008|s2cid=145308234|issn=0261-0183}}</ref> ''[[Feminist Studies]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2010|title="At Least I Am Not Sleeping with Anyone": Resisting the Stigma of Commercial Surrogacy in India|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27919102|journal=[[Feminist Studies]]|volume=36|issue=2|pages=292–312|jstor=27919102|issn=0046-3663|via=[[JSTOR]]}}</ref> and ''[[International Migration Review]].''<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2018-09-01|title=Intimate Counter‐Spaces of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon1|url=https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12325|journal=[[International Migration Review]]|language=en|publisher=[[SAGE Journals]]|volume=52|issue=3|pages=780–808|doi=10.1111/imre.12325|s2cid=148752427|issn=0197-9183}}</ref> The [[South African National Research Foundation]] has appointed her to lead a project into the surrogacy industry in the country.<ref name=":1" /> One of her papers was quoted by the [[Centre for Social Research]] in its own study into the surrogacy industry in India.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Doval|first1=Nikita|last2=Apoorva|first2=Vidya K.|date=2014-10-30|title=Surrogacy industry thrives in India amid regulatory gaps|url=https://www.livemint.com/Politics/1tiGqG9X9ChMt9Tb1pmNpM/Surrogacy-industry-thrives-in-India-amid-regulatory-gaps.html|access-date=2020-11-23|website=[[Livemint]]|language=en}}</ref>

''[[The Guardian]]'' notes that the media in India frames surrogacy either in terms of a great positive, as a boom of a life changing sum of money or as a great negative of poverty stricken women being forced into "renting wombs", a binary which according to Pande is detrimental to discourse and removes agency from the women involved.<ref name=":4" /> She has occasionally appeared as a subject matter expert on [[op-ed]]s in various national newspapers such as ''[[The Hindu]]'' and ''[[Mail & Guardian]]'', and in various international news outlets such as on the [[BBC]] show conducted by [[Laurie Taylor (sociologist)|Laurie Taylor]], on [[Sarah Carey]]'s show on [[Newstalk]] and on the Danish channel [[DR2]] show called ''Deadline''.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2016-08-29|title=Surrogates are workers, not wombs|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/Surrogates-are-workers-not-wombs/article14594820.ece|access-date=2020-11-23|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pande|first=Amrita|date=2018-11-29|title=Labour law redefines parenthood|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2018-11-29-00-labour-law-redefines-parenthood/|access-date=2020-11-23|website=[[The Mail & Guardian]]|language=en-ZA}}</ref> She also works as a performer-educator with a multimedia theatre production called ''Made in India: Notes from a Baby Farm,'' which is based on her work on the surrogacy industry.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-10-12|title=Surrogacy Bill's missteps|url=https://www.himalmag.com/surrogacy-bill-india-women-rights-labour/|website=[[Himal Southasian]]|language=en-GB}}</ref>

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