David Picherit is in charge of “labour questions” of the project “Employment, Indebtedness and Migrations (India, Mexico and Madagascar)”. He is also head of the Project “Labour: Popular Worlds and Globalisation” at the French Institute of Puducherry. He holds a Ph.D in anthropology (“Between Villages and Working Places: Circulation of Labourers, Clientelism and Politicization of low-castes in Andhra Pradesh – India”) from the University of Paris X, Nanterre. He is also associated with the Centre of Indian and South Asians Studies – Paris. He conducted two and half years of ethnographical fieldwork, circulating and living along with manual labourers. His specific fields of interest are labour worlds, migration, development and politics. He served as a consultant to various NGOs. His recent publications include anthropological studies on labour and middlemen, on alcohol consumption and resistance, and on circulation and space in India.