Full Description
Migration and borders are at the center of political debates in South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.
Contents
Introduction The Global Transformation of Borders and Mobility Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush ,Section I: Experiencing Borders in South Asia Chapter 1 Spaces of Refusal: Rethinking Sovereign Power and Resistance at the Border Reece Jones Chapter 2 Border Layers: Formal and Informal Markets along the India-Bangladesh Border Edward Boyle and Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman Chapter 3 Experiencing the Border: Lushai People and Transnational Space Azizul Rasel Section II: Mobility in and Beyond South Asia Chapter 4 Of Insiders, Outsiders, and Infiltrators: The Politics of Citizenship and Inclusion in Contemporary South Asia Kavitha Rajagopalan Chapter 5 Renegotiating Boundaries: Exploring Lives of Undocumented Bangladeshi Women Workers in India Ananya Chakraborty Chapter 6 'The Immoral Traffic in Women': Regulating Indian Emigration to the Persian Gulf Andrea Wright Chapter 7 The Journey to Europe: A Young Afghan's Experience on the Migrant Route James Weir and Rohullah Amin Chapter 8 Hardening Regional Borders: Changes in Mobility from South Asia to the European Union Marta Zorko Section III: Representations of Borders and Mobility in Diaspora Chapter 9 The Borders of Integration: Paperwork between Bangladesh and Belgium Malini Sur and Masja van Meeteren Chapter 10 Disordering History and Collective Memory in Gunvantrai Acharya's Dariyalal Riddhi Shah Chapter 11 Fragmented Lives: Locating Home in the Poems of Sudesh Mishra Tana Trivedi Conclusion Md. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones.
