Migrants, Mobility and Citizenship in India

ISBN-13: 9781138595774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str.

Ashwani Kumar; R. B. Bhagat

Opis

This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India by reinforcing the idea of their citizenship, the role of gender, ethnicity, caste, electoral participation of the internal migrants, livelihood diversification, struggle for settlement and politics of displacement. 

Spis treści

1. Internal Migration and Citizenship in India: An Emerging Perspective Part I. Migrants and Citizenship 2. Why Do Migrants Remain Excluded in Present-Day India and What Should We Do About it? 3. Migration and Right to the City: A Gender Perspective Part II. Migrants and Electoral Politics 4. Migration and Inclusive Elections 5. Electoral Participation in India’s Metropolitan Cities 6. Inclusive Exclusions: Citizenship Practices and Circular Migrants in India After 1989 7. Indigene, Outsider and the Citizen: Politics of Migration in Assam 8. Migrant Voters and Political Parties: Notes on an Analytical Framework Part III. Migrants, Development and Social Change 9. Livelihood Diversification and Out-migration: An Appraisal of Rural Bihar 10. Domestic Migration and Multiple Deprivations: A Perspective of Cycle Rickshaw-Pullers in Delhi 11. Unpacking Women's Associational Migration in India: Theory and Evidence 12. Role of Caste in Migration: Some Observations from Beed District, Maharashtra 13. Struggle for Settlement: The Case of Nomadic Dombari Community in Aurangabad District, Maharashtra 14. Migration and the Politics of Citizenship: An Ethnography at the Borderlands of Rajasthan. Epilogue: Migrants, Memories and Mythologies