2nd Edition
The Marginal Nation Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal
Preface to the Second Edition. Introduction. 1. The World of the Edges 2. Legality, Illegality and Reasons of State 3. Those Accounts 4. Continuities, Discontinuities 5. A Hossain Mia of Today? 6. Caste and Other Affinal Ties 7. Cartographic Representations and Anxieties 8. Naturalization, Valorization 9. Proletarianization, Lumpenization and their Methaphors 10. Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche 11. A Village in Malda 12. Shefali 13. The Numbers Game Postscript
Biography
Ranabir Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at the Calcutta Research Group and Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). He belongs to the critical school of thinking and is considered as one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. His writings on migration, forms of labour, urbanisation, and political struggles have signaled a new turn in post-colonial thinking. Among his popular work are Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (2018), Migrants and the Neoliberal City (2018), The Postcolonial Age of Migration (2020), A Pandemic and the Politics of Life (2021), Imprints of the Populist Time (2022), Alternative Futures and the Present: Postcolonial Possibilities (2023).
