1st Edition
Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration Leaving and Living
1. Introduction: Locating Subjectivities and Belonging in Migration
Sadan and Pushpendra
Part I: Labouring to Freedom
2. The Aspiration of a ‘Civilised’, ‘Human’ and ‘Dignified’ Life: An Enquiry into Sociability, Sociality and Wellbeing of Migrants in an Indian Coalfield
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
3. Migration and the Making of a Village
Pushpendra
4. ‘Freedom Talk of Ploughmen’: Bondage and Seasonal Migration in East Central India
Sohini Sengupta
Part II: Engendering Migration
5. Gender and Migration: A Contemporary View
Samita Sen
6. Home Away from Home? Belonging and Dislocation among Migrant Domestic Workers
Anindita Chatterjee
7. Migration, Gender, and Religion: A Study of Malabar Migration and Gendered Christian Identity in Girideepam (1961–1971)
Sharon Rose
Part III: Migration, Memory and Longing
8. Making Sense of Migration: Reflections on the Contexts and Contents of Bhojpuri Women’s Folksongs
Asha Singh
9. The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women, and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs
Nitin Sinha
10. Jaun-Yeun: Simultaneous Engagement of Konkani Migrants
Amita Bhide and Kalyani Vartak
11. Migration and Music: Incarnations of Biraha
Praveen Kumar Jha
Part IV: Negotiating the City Space
12. The Purusharthi Refugee: Sindhi Migrants in Jaipur’s Walled City
Garima Dhabhai
13. ‘Once a Migrant, Always a Migrant’? Negotiating Home and Belongingness in the City of Kolkata
Swati Mantri
14. Figure of the Migrant as Other: Experiences, Memory and the Politics of Belonging
Sadan
Index
Biography
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.
