Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration

ISBN-13: 9781032057835 / Miękka / 2023 / 296 str.

Opis

This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration. It discusses migrant subjectivities and belonging in migration; sociability and wellbeing of migrants; bondage and seasonal migration; women and migration; and, migration, the folk, gender, and religion to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of migration in India. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Locating Subjectivities and Belonging in Migration  Part I: Labouring to Freedom  2. The Aspiration of a ‘Civilised’, ‘Human’ and ‘Dignified’ Life: An Enquiry into Sociability, Sociality and Wellbeing of Migrants in an Indian Coalfield  3. Migration and the Making of a Village  4. ‘Freedom Talk of Ploughmen’: Bondage and Seasonal Migration in East Central India  Part II: Engendering Migration  5. Gender and Migration: A Contemporary View  6. Home Away from Home? Belonging and Dislocation among Migrant Domestic Workers  7. Migration, Gender, and Religion: A Study of Malabar Migration and Gendered Christian Identity in Girideepam (1961–1971)  Part III: Migration, Memory and Longing  8. Making Sense of Migration: Reflections on the Contexts and Contents of Bhojpuri Women’s Folksongs  9. The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women, and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs  10. Jaun-Yeun: Simultaneous Engagement of Konkani Migrants  11. Migration and Music: Incarnations of Biraha  Part IV: Negotiating the City Space  12. The Purusharthi Refugee: Sindhi Migrants in Jaipur’s Walled City  13. ‘Once a Migrant, Always a Migrant’? Negotiating Home and Belongingness in the City of Kolkata  14. The Figure of the Migrant as Other: Experiences, Memory and the Politics of Belonging

O autorze

Sadan is Associate Professor at the Centre for Social Studies, Surat, Gujarat, India.

Pushpendra is Professor and Chairperson at the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bihar, India.