Full Description
This book covers a wide array of issues pertinent to migration and refugee studies. It interrogates new issues on the frontiers of migration, such as statelessness, ethics of care, labor and migration, and subjectivity of migration. Broadly divided into four categories: understanding the registers, issue of public health, care and migrants, the question of labor and migration, and the subjectivity of migrants and refugees. The chapters present a well-structured analytical and methodological framework on register of migration. They bring an entire gamut of issues under its purview. The book provides an excellent resource for researchers, advocacy groups, and practitioners to engage with topics pertinent to refugee and migration studies.
Contents
Chapter 1. New Frontiers in the Register of Migration and Refugee Studies: An Introduction (Nasreen Chowdhory).- Part I. Understanding the Registers.- Chapter 2. Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Economy and Politics (Ranabir Samaddar).- Chapter 3. Protection and Punishment: Twin Faces of Refugee Protection (Nasreen Chowdhory).- Chapter 4. Contested Displacement and Fractured Rights: The Case of POJK Displaced Persons in J&K (Gurvinder Kour).- Part II. Public Health, Care and Migrants.- Chapter 5. Liminal Lives: Migrants, Refugees and the Contested Terrain of Social Protection (Manish K. Jha).- Chapter 6. How Intimate is Intimate Labour in South Asia? The Intimate Workers of Kolkata (Paula Banerjee).- Chapter 7. Internal Migration, Health and Gender: Analysing the Relationship in the Indian Context (Megha).- Chapter 8. Problematizing the Global City Paradigm: Migrant Education, Social Infrastructure and Spatial Exclusion in Bangkok (Priya Singh).- Part III. Subjectivity of Migration.- Chapter 9. Rethinking Home from the Experience of Home[state]lessness: The Discursive Exposé of Rohingya Narratives from Cox's Bazar Camps (Niloy Ranjan Biswas).- Chapter 10. Contesting 'Citizenship': Voices of Pakistani Refugee Women (Roshni Sharma).- Chapter 11. The Efficacy of Practices: The Political-Legal World of Citizenry in Assam (Ankur Tamuli Phukan).- Chapter 12. Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights: Rohingya Children in Bangladesh (Sreetapa Chakrabarty).- Part IV. The Question of Labour and Migration.- Chapter 13. In Search of the 'Suitable Coolie': Homogenisation and Colonial Migration of Labour to the Tea Gardens of Assam (Anisha Bordoloi).- Chapter 14. A Report on Status of Women Migrant Workers of Nepal (Suman Mandal).- Chapter 15. Migrant Labour as Subjects of Economy and Objects of State Protection: The Predicaments of Circular Migration in the Construction Industry During the Pandemic (Kasturi Datta).
