This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights. Dwelling on ethnographic case studies from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the USA, and Europe, the volume illuminates the experiences of vulnerable communities, showcasing their solidarities, networks, and supportive dynamics that emerge from the harsh realities of social life. Analysing the world from the lens of fraternal relations and spaces that arise and abound in the lifeworld of the marginalised and vulnerable communities, this edited volume illustrates how without these burgeoning solidarities, migrants and other at-risk populations may have a harder struggle to navigate the socio-economic and political challenges they face. Furthermore, the book emphasises that nation-states would encounter even more profound and complex difficulties without such intricate coping mechanisms. The essays within the volume demonstrate that these mechanisms are vital to addressing dilemmas, stalemates, and the stakeholder politics surrounding people living in precarious, hidden and dark contexts. The case studies which enrich theoretical debates, also indicate how these dark contexts would be significantly more difficult to traverse without the robust and nuanced messages coded in actor solidarities and resilience.
The volume is poised to attract significant attention from scholars and researchers committed to anthropology, ethnography, history, migration, international politics and refugee studies.
This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights. It will appeal to scholars of anthropology, ethnography, history, migration, international politics and refugee studies.
1. Dark Anthropology, Migrants and Others: Of Vulnerable Communities,
Solidarities and Challenges to Nation-States
2. Reimagining Vulnerability
beyond `Dark`: Can the Marginalised Inform Research and Policy? Part I:
Persistent Challenges of the Vulnerable and the Othered
3. Dark Narratives
of Venezuelan Migrants in Trinidad and Tobago: Rethinking Identity Politics
and Social Movements
4. Personal Histories: The Challenges and Struggles of
Indian H-1 B and H-4 Visa Holders in USA
5. Ecology, Environment and the
Defender Communities under Threat: Of Survival and Resistance Part II: State
Policies and the Vulnerable
6. A Historical and Contemporary Overview of
Dark Ethnography and Othering of a Minority: The Situation of South
Africans of Indian Origin
7. Venezuelan Migration to Trinidad: A Study on
Crime, Gangs and Violent Extremism
8. Exploring Nigerian Migrants/Nationals
Experiences of Violence, Safety, and Security in Durban, South Africa Part
III: Rethinking the Issues of the Vulnerable in Face of Everyday Solidarities
and Community Actions
9. Solidarity as an Identity element: Perspectives
from Argentina
10. Whose Crisis? Between Othering and Solidarity During the
So-called Refugee Crisis in Europe
11. Patriarchy: Gujarati Migrant Brides in
Durban, South Africa
12. Reflective Process on Self-identity and Migration:
What Makes Me, Me?
Bobby Luthra Sinha is Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian, African and Latin American Studies (CAALAS) at the Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi.
Nirmala Devi Gopal is Head of Criminology and Forensic Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Annapurna Devi Pandey is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ashutosh Kumar is Professor of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.
