Publications - a selection

Baas, Michiel. 2023. Queer India "on paper": decriminalization, recognition and visibility of sexual diversity. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 42(5): 610–624. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-02-2020-0051.

Baas, Michiel. 2022. Capitalizing on desire: (re)producing and consuming class in Indian 'gay' pornography. Porn Studies 9(3): 324–338. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23268743.2021.1977174.

Baas, Michiel. 2021. Indian migrant workers and global city Singapore: what determines the preference for and (relative) cost of a migration destination? Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 5(2): 109–122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00035_1.

Liu-Farrer, Gracia, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, and Michiel Baas. 2021. Social construction of skill: an analytical approach toward the question of skill in cross-border labour mobilities. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47: 2237–2251. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1731983.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Labour migrants as an (un)controllable virus in India and Singapore. Japan Focus 18(14).

Baas, Michiel and Julien Cayla. 2020. Recognition in India's new service professions: gym trainers and coffee baristas. Consumption, Markets and Culture 23(3): 223–240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2019.1586678.

Baas, Michiel, Delphine Pagès-El Karoui, and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2020. Migrants in global cities in Asia and the Gulf: cosmopolitan dialectics and non-integration. City 24(5, 6): 793–804. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1843278.

Baas, Michiel. 2019. The education‐migration industry: international students, migration policy and the question of skills. International Migration 57(3): 222–234. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12540.

Baas, Michiel. 2019. Queer temporalities: the past, present and future of 'gay' migrants from India in Singapore. Current Sociology 67(2): 206–224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392118792922.

Baas, Michiel and Brenda S. A. Yeoh. 2019. Introduction: migration studies and critical temporalities. Current Sociology 67(2): 161–168. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392118792924.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Comment on Sverre Molland "Sedentary optics: static anti-trafficking and mobile victims". Current Anthropology 59(2): 125–126. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/697199.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Challenging the spatial and temporal constraints of the body: the online/offline presence of bodybuilders in India. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 12(4): 417–438. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-7218532.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Bodybuilding in India: Bollywood bodies and middle-class lifestyles. IIC Quarterly 44(3-4): 266–277.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. The mobile middle: Indian skilled migrants in Singapore and the 'middling' space between migration categories. Transitions 1(1): 47–63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm.1.1.47_1.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Only (in) India. South Asia 40(2): 373–375. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2017.1321976.

Baas, Michiel. 2016. Becoming trans/nationally mobile: the conflation of internal and international migration in the trajectories of Indian student-migrants in Australia and beyond. South Asia 39(1): 14–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2016.1109166.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. The question of racism: how to understand the violent attacks on Indian students in Australia? Cosmopolitan Civil Societies 7(3): 37–60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v7i3.4469.

Baas, Michiel. 2014. Victims or profiteers? Issues of migration, racism and violence among Indian students in Melbourne. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(2): 212–225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12046.

Baas, Michiel. 2013. In-betweeness: the (dis)connection between here and there; the case of Indian student-migrants in Australia. Conserveries Mémorielles 13: 1–22.

Baas, Michiel. 2009. Curry bashing: racism, violence and alien space invaders. Economic and Political Weekly 44(34): 37.

Baas, Michiel. 2009. The IT caste: love and arranged marriages in the IT industry of Bangalore. South Asia 32(2): 285–307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856400903049531.

Baas, Michiel. 2007. Bangalore @ night: Indian IT professionals and the global clock ticking. Etnofoor 20(2): 59–72.

Baas, Michiel. 2007. The language of migration: the education industry versus the migration industry. People and Place 15(2): 49–60.

Baas, Michiel. 2006. Students of migration: Indian overseas students and the question of permanent residency. People and Place 14(1): 9–24.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Uncle's body: food, obesity and the risk of middle-class lifestyles in urban India. In: Cecilia Leong-Salobir (ed.). Routledge handbook of food in Asia. Routledge Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 239–250.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Introduction: brokerage, gender and precarity in Asia's migration industry. In: Michiel Baas (ed.). The migration industry in Asia: brokerage, gender and precarity. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–10.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Understanding the cost of migration: facilitating migration from India to Singapore and the Middle East. In: Michiel Baas (ed.). The migration industry in Asia: brokerage, gender and precarity. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59–75.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. A new state of fitness: is all working out in Bihar? In: Sunita Lall, Neeraj Kumar, and Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff (eds.). Bihar: crossing boundaries. Delhi: Primus Books, pp. 72–87.

Baas, Michiel and Peidong Yang. 2020. Introduction: conceptualizing the Asian migrant's body. In: Michiel Baas (ed.). The Asian migrant's body: emotion, gender and sexuality. New Mobilities in Asia 5. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 7–27.

Baas, Michiel. 2019. Longing and belonging in a global city: skilled migrants in Singaporean urban space. In: Rita Padawangi (ed.). Routledge handbook of urbanization in Southeast Asia. Routledge Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 135–145.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Temporary labour migration. In: Gracia Liu-Farrer and Brenda S. A. Yeoh (eds.). Routledge handbook of Asian migrations. Routledge Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 51–63.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. The neoliberal masculine logic: skilled migration, international students, and the Indian "other" in Australia. In: Garth Stahl, Joseph Derrick Nelson, and Derron O. Wallace (eds.). Masculinity and aspiration in an era of neoliberal education: international perspectives. Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education 3. New York; London: Routledge, pp. 184–201.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Indians in Australia: understanding the changing face of a community. In: Radha Sarma Hegde and Ajaya Kumar Sahoo (eds.). Routledge handbook of the Indian diaspora. Routledge Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 317–329.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. The new Indian male: muscles, masculinity and middle classness. In: Knut A. Jacobsen (ed.). Routledge handbook of contemporary India. Routledge Handbooks. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 444–456.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. The fluidity of return: Indian student migrants' transnational ambitions and the meaning of Australian permanent residency. In: Michiel Baas (ed.). Transnational migration and Asia: the question of return. Global Asia 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 39–54.

Baas, Michiel, Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, and Thomas Faist. 2012. Indian transnationalism: theoretical developments and practical implications. In: Ajaya Kumar Sahoo, Michiel Baas, and Thomas Faist (eds.). Indian diaspora and transnationalism. Jaipur; New Delhi; Bengaluru; Guwahati; Kolkata: Rawat, pp. 1–19.

Baas, Michiel. 2011. Learning how to work the grey zone: issues of legality and illegality among Indian students in Australia. In: Thanh-Dam Truong and Des Gasper (eds.). Transnational migration and human security: the migration-development-security nexus. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace 6. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 169–179.

Baas, Michiel. 2010. Praying for food: class and Indian overseas students in Australia. In: Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Vivienne S. M. Angeles (eds.). Gender, religion, and migration: pathways of integration. Lanham; Boulder; New York; Toronto; Plymouth: Lexington, pp. 71–93.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. What determines the cost of migration? A perspective from Indian agents facilitating migration to Singapore and the Middle East. Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series 264. Singapore: Asia Research Institute.

Baas, Michiel. 2021. Ambon 1623/Banda 1621: Dutch and British colonial history revisited. IIAS Newsletter 89. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2021-08/IIAS_NL89_0405.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Asian migration studies: recent publications and new directions. IIAS Newsletter 86. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2020-06/IIAS_NL86_1213.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Tamil film culture and politics: super star actors as charismatic politicians. IIAS Newsletter 80. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2019-05/IIAS_NL80_4445.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Bulging biceps in urban India: a middle class goes to the gym. IIAS Newsletter 77. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2019-05/IIAS_NL77_1011.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2016. In memoriam: Mario Rutten, colleague-supervisor-friend. IIAS Newsletter 73. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2019-05/IIAS_NL73_4647.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. Singapore turns 50: local issues in a global city. IIAS Newsletter 71. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2019-05/IIAS_NL71_1819.pdf.

Baas, Michiel. 2012. Renewing postcolonial dialogues: exploring a new research agenda. IIAS Newsletter 59. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/nwl_article/2019-05/IIAS_NL59_232425.pdf#page=2.

Baas, Michiel. 2007. 'Arranged love': marriage in a transnational work environment. IIAS Newsletter 45. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2717768/view.

Baas, Michiel. 2006. Cash cows: milking Indian students in Australia. IIAS Newsletter 42. International Institute for Asian Studies. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2732179/view.

Baas, Michiel. 2022. Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife, by Kareem Khubchandani, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2020. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 45(1): 205–207. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2022.2017123.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. International migrants in China's global city. International Institute for Asian Studies.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. International migrants in China's global city. International institute for Asian studies.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Intimate visualities and the politics of fandom in India. International institute for Asian studies.

Baas, Michiel. 2019. Besnier, Niko, Brownell, Susan and Carter, Thomas F. 2017. The anthropology of sport: bodies, borders, biopolitics. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 336 pp. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 27(2): 390–392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12643.

Baas, Michiel. 2018. Gender, sexuality, and society in Indonesia: a review essay of three recent publications. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 174(4): 481–490. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17404004.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Petrus Liu: Queer marxism in two Chinas; Duke University Press. Intersections 41: 1–5.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Bangalore and its IT industry: a changing landscape of work and life in urban India. Economic and Political Weekly 52(24): 31–37.

Baas, Michiel. 2017. Brown boys and rice queens: spellbinding performances in the Asias; Eng-Beng Lim; New York & London, New York University Press, 2013. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 18(2): 185–187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2016.1233846.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. Een ontdekkingsreiziger in tijden van forensonderzoekers. Athenaeum.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. Queer Asia: advances in a field in motion. Intersections 37: 8–8.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. Norman Vasu, Yeap Su Yin and Chan Wen Ling (eds.): (2014) Immigration in Singapore. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 221 pages. Asian Journal of Social Science 43(6): 837–840. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04306009.

Baas, Michiel. 2015. Transnational student-migrants and the state: the education-migration; nexus Shanthi Robertson; Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; 193 pp. Journal of Intercultural Studies 36(6): 743–745. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2015.1096239.

Baas, Michiel. 2014. Duncan McDuie-Ra, Northeast migrants in Delhi: race, refuge and retail (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012). South Asia 37(2): 359–361. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2014.909347.

Baas, Michiel. 2013. Rajesh Rai and Peter Reeves (eds), The south Asian diaspora: transnational networks and changing identities (London/New York: Routledge, 2009). South Asia 36(1): 149–150. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2013.800682.

Baas, Michiel. 2013. Haney, Lynne A., 2010, Offending women: power, punishment and the regulation of desire. Berkeley: University of California Press, xii + 287pp. Comparative Sociology 12(6): 875–877. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341287.

Baas, Michiel. 2013. Kudaisya, Medha Malik & Ng Chin-Keong (eds.), 2009, Chinese and Indian business: historical antecedents. Leiden & Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, x + 182pp. Comparative Sociology 12(4): 575–578. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341275.

Baas, Michiel. 2010. N. Ali, V.S. Kalra and S. Sayyid (eds). A postcolonial people: south Asians in Britain. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 444 pp. Asian Studies Review 34(1): 105–106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10357820903566940.

Baas, Michiel. 2010. Indian students back home and abroad. IIAS Newsletter 54: 35–35.

Baas, Michiel (ed.). 2020. The Asian migrant's body: emotion, gender and sexuality. New Mobilities in Asia 5. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Baas, Michiel (ed.). 2020. The migration industry in Asia: brokerage, gender and precarity. Palgrave Pivot. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Baas, Michiel (ed.). 2015. Transnational migration and Asia: the question of return. Global Asia 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar, Michiel Baas, and Thomas Faist (eds.). 2012. Indian diaspora and transnationalism. Jaipur; New Delhi; Bengaluru; Guwahati; Kolkata: Rawat.

Baas, Michiel. 2020. Muscular India: masculinity, mobility and the new middle class. Chennai: Context.

Baas, Michiel. 2012. Imagined mobility: migration and transnationalism among Indian students in Australia. Anthem South Asian Studies. London; New York; Delhi: Anthem Press.

Baas, Michiel. 2021. 'The Nutmeg’s curse': Amitav Ghosh links the colonial desire for profit to neoliberal gluttony. Scroll.in. https://scroll.in/article/1010474/the-nutmegs-curse-amitav-ghosh-links-the-colonial-desire-for-profit-to-neoliberal-gluttony.