Publications

• Roy, Rianka. “Indian Tech Workers Organizing in India and the United States.” Under review (revised & resubmitted).
• Roy, Rianka, Bandana Purkayastha, Shoma Choudhury, Dinesh Rajak, and Deepa Ebenezer. “Media Discourses on the COVID Delta Surge in India.” Under review (revised & resubmitted).  

• Roy, Rianka. 2024. “Covert Carcerality for 'High-Income Cheap Labor': Indian Tech Workers in the United States." Sociological Forum https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13028 
• Roy, Rianka. 2024. “Praxis of Compliance: Feminist Solidarity for Women Tech Workers in India during Covid-19.” Journal of Gender Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2407488
• Purkayastha, Bandana, and Rianka Roy. 2024. “Water, Water, everywhere…But for Whom?” Contexts 23(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042241293434 
• Roy, Rianka, Bandana Purkayastha, and Elizabeth Chacko. 2024. “‘We Cannot Go There, They Cannot Come Here’: Dispersed Care, Asian Indian Immigrant Families, and the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Social Sciences 13(5): 252. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050252
• Purkayastha, Bandana, Rianka Roy, Anandhi S., and Deepa Ebenezer [equal authorship]. Forthcoming. “Gendered Inclusions and Exclusions: Lessons from Media Discourses during the Pandemic.” Journal of Social and Economic Development.
• Purkayastha, Bandana, and Rianka Roy. 2023. “Hidden in Plain Sight: ‘Neutral’ Enclosures for High-Skilled Immigrants during COVID-19.” Sociological Forum.
• Roy, Rianka. 2022. “Politics through Precarity: Tech Workers’ Unions in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2022.2110925
• Roy, Rianka. 2022. “Immigrant Workers’ Movements in the US: Where are High-skilled ‘Nonimmigrants’?” Sociology Compass 16(6): e12985. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12985
• Desai, Manisha, and Rianka Roy. 2022. “Intersectional Coloniality: The Sociological Praxis of Savitribai Phule and the Women Activists of Satya Shodhak Samaj (Truth Seekers Society).’ The American Sociologist 53: 395-413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-022-09536-1 
• Roy, Rianka. 2021. “Precarious Privilege: Globalism, Digital Biopolitics and Tech-Workers’ Movements in India.” The European Legacy 26(7-8): 675-691. https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2021.1962641
• Roy, Rianka. 2021. “Working from Home: Women in the Indian Tech-industry through the Pandemic.” Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics 44(1): 56-67. https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/JCLA-44.1-Spring-2021_Rianka-Roy.pdf

• Roy, Rianka. 2024. “Humanitarian Organizations as Gendered Organizations.” Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality, edited by Silke Roth, Tobius Denskus and Bandana Purkayastha. Edward Elgar.
• Roy, Rianka. 2023. “Don’t Panic! Reach Us: Indian Tech Unions’ Social Media Narratives during the Pandemic.” In Media Narratives during the Pandemic, edited by Shubhda Arora and Keval Kumar. Routledge.  
• Roy, Rianka, Josef Ma, and Simon Cheng. 2023. “Digital Divide and Youth Development in the Early Twenty-first Century.” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. 
• Rianka Roy, and Manisha Desai. 2022. “Krantijyoti Gyanjyoti Savitribai: The Light of Revolution and Knowledge.” Pp. 111-128 in Deconstructing the Margins: Neglected Social Theorists of Color, edited by Korey Tillman, David Dickens and C.C. Herbison. Lexington Books.
• Desai, Manisha, Rianka Roy, Asmita Asaavari, Ruth Hernandez-Rios, and Koyel Khan. 2022. “Writing on Self, Together: Collective Autoethnography as Praxis of Solidarity and Collective Care during the Pandemic.” Pp. 88-98 in Global Feminist Autoethnographies during COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions, edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beoku-Betts, and Bandana Purkayastha. Routledge.  

 Book Review

• Roy, Rianka. 2023. The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Regime by Pallavi Banerjee. Gender & Society 37(3): 472-474.
• Roy, Rianka. 2021. Planning in the 20thCentury and Beyond: India’s Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog by Santosh Mehrotra and Sylvie Guichard. Contemporary South Asia 29(1): 115-116. 

Conference Proceedings

• Roy, Rianka. 2021. “Post-Secular and Post-Democratic India: A Study of the Digital Dissolution of the State.” Pp. 593-604 in Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy, edited by Ivan Lopez. Aragonese Association of Sociology and University of Zaragoza, Spain. 

Public Media

• Roy, Rianka. 2023. “Women’s Employment and Poverty.” CSW68 Women and Poverty Brief. US Women’s Caucus at the UN. https://www.uswomenscaucus.org/2023/09/12/csw-68-brief-womens-employment-and-poverty/
• Roy, Rianka. 2023. “Gender, Technology and Empowerment: Reflections on the 67th Commission on the Status of Women.” Labor Tech Research Network, June 22. https://medium.com/@labortechresearchnetwork/gender-technology-and-empowerment-reflections-on-the-67th-commission-on-the-status-of-women-68d2df4d50bf
• Roy, Rianka. 2022. “The Gender Digital Divide: Economic Access and Employment for Women.” CWS67 Gender and Technology Brief. US Women’s Caucus at the UN. https://www.uswomenscaucus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gender-Digital-Divide.pdf
• Roy, Rianka. 2021. “When Work Comes Home: Pandemic Realities for Indian Women in Tech.” Feminism in India, January 22. https://feminisminindia.com/2021/01/22/when-work-comes-home-pandemic-realities-indian-women-tech/