Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living (Migrations in South Asia) 1st Edition

ISBN 10: 1032047364 / ISBN 13: 9781032047362

Published by Routledge India, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration: Leaving and Living (Migrations in South Asia) 1st Edition
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032047364
• ISBN 13: 9781032047362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

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.