1st Edition

Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas An Ethnographic Village Study

By Madleina Daehnhardt Copyright 2020
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 55 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book teases out the reasons for, and the socio-economic impacts of, different types of migration on contemporary rural households and individuals. The author creatively depicts the dynamic microcosm of one village in the North Indian Kumaun Himalayas, near the border with Chinese Tibet, giving voice to the life stories of a range of migrants. Through this ethnography, migration is revealed... Read more

Foreword  0. Introduction  1. Tejam village features introduced  2. The history of migration from Tejam  3. Reasons for out-migration from Tejam  4. Out-migration from Tejam: multidimensional impacts  5. Non-migration in Tejam  6. Return migration to Tejam  7. In-migration into Tejam: a repeat story  Conclusion  Appendices Author reflections on the village study process

Biography



Madleina Daehnhardt, PhD, is currently Tutor in International Development at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, and Research Advisor at the relief and development NGO Tearfund. Whilst carrying out the village study presented in this book (2015–2016), she was based at the Centre of Development Studies, Cambridge, and affiliated at the Centre for Public Policy at Doon University in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.