Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond

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Edited by Md. Azmeary Ferdoush, Reece Jones

Publisher:: Amsterdam University Press
Online publication date:: December 2020
Print publication year:: 2018
Online ISBN:: 9789048535224
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048535224

Subjects:: Organisational Sociology, Sociology

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The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.

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Frontmatter
pp 1-4

Contents
pp 5-6

List of Figures
pp 6-6

Acknowledgements
pp 7-10

Introduction: The Global Transformation of Borders and Mobility
pp 11-28

Section I - Experiencing Borders in South Asia
pp 29-30

1 - Spaces of Refusal: Rethinking Sovereign Power and Resistance at the Border
pp 31-58

2 - Border Layers: Formal and Informal Markets Along the India-Bangladesh Border
pp 59-80

3 - Experiencing the Border: The Lushai People and Transnational Space
pp 81-98

Section II - Mobility in and Beyond South Asia
pp 99-100

4 - Of Insiders, Outsiders, and Infiltrators: The Politics of Citizenship and Inclusion in Contemporary South Asia
pp 101-122

5 - Renegotiating Boundaries: Exploring the Lives of Undocumented Bangladeshi Women Workers in India
pp 123-144

6 - ‘The Immoral Traffic in Women’: Regulating Indian Emigration to the Persian Gulf
pp 145-166

7 - The Journey to Europe: A Young Afghan’s Experience on the Migrant Route
pp 167-186

8 - Hardening Regional Borders: Changes in Mobility from South Asia to the European Union
pp 187-204

Section III - Representations of Borders and Mobility in Diaspora
pp 205-206

9 - The Borders of Integration: Paperwork between Bangladesh and Belgium
pp 207-228

10 - Disordering History and Collective Memory in Gunvantrai Acharya’s Dariyalal 229
pp 229-248

11 - Fragmented Lives: Locating ‘Home’ in the Poems of Sudesh Mishra
pp 249-266

Conclusion
pp 267-274

Index
pp 275-277

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