India Migration Report 2017: Forced Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367735524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 354 str.

S. Irudaya Rajan

Opis

The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and development projects. India accounts for large numbers of internally displaced people in the world. Apart from conflicts and disasters, over the years, development projects (including urban redevelopme

Spis treści

List of Figures and Maps.  List of Tables.  Contributors.  Preface.  Acknowledgements.  1. Development or Developmental Terrorism?  2. Pushed Aside: Displaced for ‘Development’  3. Singur: The Exemplar of Peasant Resistance  4. Forced Displacement: A Gendered Analysis of the Tehri Dam Project  5. Displacing and Relocating Peasant Social Dispositions  6. Urban Development, Smart Cities and Displacement  7. Urban Redevelopment, Neoliberalism and Politics of Displacement in Gujarat  8. Infrastructure Development and Forced Displacement in Kerala: Risks and Vulnerabilities  9. Conflicts and Displacement in the Northeast: Land, Identity and Immigrants  10. Silent Violence and New Bondage in the Urban Informal Sector: A Study of Forced Migrants in West Bengal  11. The Geography of Economic Migrants: Characteristics and Location in Bengaluru  12. New Migrant Question: Exploitative Forms of Transit Labour in Three Regions of Andhra Pradesh  13. Motives for Seasonal Migration and Rights-based Policies: Evidence from Western Odisha  14. Locating Gender, Re-reading Forced Migration: A Study of the Migrant Muslim Women in Delhi  15. International Migration in Tamil Nadu: Results from the Tamil Nadu Migration Survey 2015  16. Concerns about Temporary Migration: Policymaker’s Perspective  17. Exploring the Capital–Labour Dynamics: Migrants in the Gold Jewellery-making Industry in Kerala  18. Kerala Migration Survey 2016: New Evidences  19. Dalit Migration, Diaspora and Development: Kerala and Punjab  20. Immigration Policy Reforms in OECD Countries: A Comparative Look at United States  21. Cinema and Migration: Nurses and Patriarchy.  Index

O autorze

S. Irudaya Rajan is Professor at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. With more than three decades of research experience in Kerala, he has coordinated seven major migration surveys (1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 and 2016) in Kerala (with Professor K. C. Zachariah), led the migration surveys in Goa (2008) and Tamil Nadu (2015), and provided technical support to the Gujarat Migration Survey (2010) and Punjab Migration Survey (2011). He has published extensively in national and international journals on demographic, social, economic, political and psychological implications of international migration. He is currently engaged in several projects on international migration with New York University, UAE Exchange Centre, India Centre for Migration of the Ministry of External Affairs and International Labour Migration. He worked closely with the erstwhile Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India; Department of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs (NORKA), Government of Kerala and Kerala State Planning Board. He is currently co-chairing the working group on NORKA for the 13th five-year plan (2017–2022) of Kerala State Planning Board, Government of Kerala, and is initiating the Kerala Migration Survey 2018, funded by the Department of NORKA, Government of Kerala. He is editor of the two Routledge series, India Migration Report (annual) since 2010 and South Asia Migration Report (biannual), and the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Migration and Development.