02192cam a2200229 i 4500 38789 38789 9781032203294 301.3260954 MIG- Kumar, Ashwani and Bhagat, R.B. Editor Migrants, mobility and citizenship in India / edited by Ashwani Kumar and R.B. Bhagat. New york: Routledge, 2022. xxii, 234 p. Contributed articles. Includes bibliographical references and index. This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India and brings back the idea of citizenship to the center of the contested relationship between the state and internal migrants in the country. It interrogates the multiple vulnerabilities of disenfranchised internal migrants as evidenced in the mass exodus of migrants during the crisis. Challenging dominant economic and demographic theories of mobility and relying on a wide range of innovative heterodox methodologies, this volume points to the possibility of reimagining migrants as ‘citizens’. The volume discusses various facets of internal migration such as the roles of gender, ethnicity, caste, electoral participation of the internal migrants, livelihood diversification, struggle for settlement, and politics of displacement, and highlights the case of temporary, seasonal, and circulatory migrants as the most exploited and invisible group among migrants. Presenting secondary and recent field data from across regions, including from the northeast, the book explores the processes under which people migrate and suggests ways for ameliorating the conditions of migrants through sustained civic and political action. This book will be essential for scholars and researchers of migration studies, politics, governance, development studies, public policy, sociology, and gender studies as well as policymakers, government bodies, civil society, and interested general readers. Migration, Internal India. Rural-urban migration India Labor mobility India Immigrants India History Ashwani Kumar, editor. Bhagat, R. B. editor. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2024-04-12 9 934.99 0 304.80954 MIG 53966 2024-04-12 00:00:00 1295.00 2024-04-12 BK