Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living

ISBN-13: 9781032047362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 296 str.

Sadan Jha; Pushpendra Kumar Singh

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