02327cam a2200241 i 4500999001700000020001800017082002200035100004500057245009200102260003300194300001700227500002600244504005100270520144800321650003201769650003301801650002601834650003101860700002801891700002701919942001201946952012701958  c38789d38789  a9781032203294  a301.3260954bMIG-  aKumar, Ashwani and Bhagat, R.B. eEditor00aMigrants, mobility and citizenship in India /cedited by Ashwani Kumar and R.B. Bhagat.  aNew york:bRoutledge,c2022.  axxii, 234 p.  aContributed articles.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis 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. 0aMigration, InternalzIndia. 0aRural-urban migrationzIndia 0aLabor mobilityzIndia 0aImmigrantszIndiaxHistory0 aAshwani Kumar,eeditor.1 aBhagat, R. B.eeditor.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2024-04-12e9g934.99l0o304.80954 MIGp53966r2024-04-12 00:00:00v1295.00w2024-04-12yBK