Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living (Migrations in South Asia)

By: Pushpendra and Sadan

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Synopsis: This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; and the city to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of internal migration in India in historical perspectives. Departing from the dominant understanding of migration as an aberration impelled by economic factors, the book focuses on the centrality of migration in the making of society. Based on case studies from an array of geo-cultural regions from across India, the volume views migrants as active agents with their own determinations of selfhood and location. Part of the series Migrations in South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, gender studies, development studies, social work, political economy, social history, political studies, social and cultural anthropology, exclusion studies, sociology, and South Asian Studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 296 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000429428
Related ISBNs:: 9781032047362, 9781032057835, 9781003199120
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 09/10/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Sadan Jha and Pushpendra Kumar Singh
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Sadan Jha
Edited by:: Pushpendra Kumar Singh