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Migrants, mobility and citizenship in India /

Migrants, mobility and citizenship in India / edited by Ashwani Kumar and R.B. Bhagat. - First South Asia edition. - xxii, 234 p. 24 cm

Foreword by Nasim Zaidi -
Preface and Acknowledgements -
1. Internal Migration and Citizenship in India: An Emerging Perspective by R.B. Bhagat and Ashwani Kumar -
Part I. Migrants and Citizenship -
2. Why Do Migrants Remain Excluded in Present-Day India and What Should We Do About it?
Priya Deshingkar -
3. Migration and Right to the City: A Gender Perspective by R.B. Bhagat -
Part II. Migrants and Electoral Politics –
4. Migration and Inclusive Elections by Ashwani Kumar and Shashwat Dhar -
5. Electoral Participation in India’s Metropolitan Cities by Sanjay Kumar and Souradeep Banerjee -
6. Inclusive Exclusions: Citizenship Practices and Circular Migrants in India after 1989 by Indrajit Roy -
7. Indigene, Outsider and the Citizen: Politics of Migration in Assam by Smitana Saikia and Ravindra Chowdhary -
8. Migrant Voters and Political Parties: Notes on an Analytical Framework by E. Sridharan -
Part III. Migrants, Development and Social Change -
9. Livelihood Diversification and Out-migration: An Appraisal of Rural Bihar by Nandan Kumar and R.B. Bhagat -
10. Domestic Migration and Multiple Deprivations: Cycle Rickshaw-Pullers in Delhi by Naresh Kumar -
11. Unpacking Women’s Associational Migration in India: Theory and Evidence by Sandhya Iyer and Ananya Chakraborty –
12. Role of Caste in Migration: Some Observations from Beed District, Maharashtra by Kalyani Vartak
13. Struggle for Settlement: The Case of Nomadic Dombari Community in Aurangabad District, Maharashtra by Pravin Shankarrao Khandagale -
14. Migration and the Politics of Citizenship: An Ethnography at the Borderlands of Rajasthan by Srishtee Sethi -
Epilogue: Migrants, Memories and Mythologies by Ashwani Kumar -
Index.


9781032203294

2022335176


Migration, Internal--India.
Rural-urban migration--India.
Labor mobility--India.
Immigrants--History.--India

304.80954 KUM