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.
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 Coxs Bazar Camps (Niloy Ranjan Biswas).
Chapter
10. Contesting Citizenship: Voices of Pakistani Refugee Women (Roshni
Sharma).
Chapter
11. The Efficacy of Practices: The PoliticalLegal 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).
Nasreen Chowdhory is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. She received her PhD in Political Science from McGill University, Canada, where her research focused on repatriation and belonging in South Asia. A well-published academic, her work spans forced migration, citizenship, statelessness, and identity, with articles in journals such as Journal of Borderlands Studies, Citizenship Studies, Refugee Watch, and Peace Prints. She is co-editor of Gender, Identity and Migration in India (Springer, 2022) and contributes to ongoing projects on migration and refugee studies. She has also been the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship (19992003) and the JRD Tata Award (19981999).
Priya Singh is an IDRC Endowed Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata. A well-published academic, her scholarship over the past two decades has explored questions of nationalism, identity, gender, and marginality in Israel and the wider West Asian region, and more recently in South and South-East Asia. Her current research focuses on migration, statelessness, and urban precarity in Bangkok and beyond, examining how environmental change and peri-urban transformation intersect with the citys shifting geopolitical and socio-economic dynamics.
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