Home, Belonging and Memory in Migration : Leaving and Living (Hardcover)

1.Introduction: Locating Subjectivities and Belonging in Migration Sadan and Pushpendra Part I: Labouring to Freedom 2.The Aspiration of a ‘Civilised’, ‘Human’ and ‘Dignified’ Life: An Enquiry into Sociability, Sociality and Wellbeing of Migrants in an Indian Coalfield Dhiraj Kumar Nite 3.Migration and the Making of a Village Pushpendra 4.‘Freedom Talk of Ploughmen’: Bondage and Seasonal Migration in East Central India Sohini Sengupta Part II: Engendering Migration 5.Gender and Migration: A Contemporary View Samita Sen 6.Home Away from Home? Belonging and Dislocation among Migrant Domestic Workers Anindita Chatterjee 7.Migration, Gender, and Religion: A Study of Malabar Migration and Gendered Christian Identity in Girideepam (1961?1971) Sharon Rose Part III: Migration, Memory and Longing 8.Making Sense of Migration: Reflections on the Contexts and Contents of Bhojpuri Women’s Folksongs Asha Singh 9.The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women, and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs Nitin Sinha 10.Jaun-Yeun: Simultaneous Engagement of Konkani Migrants Amita Bhide and Kalyani Vartak 11.Migration and Music: Incarnations of Biraha Praveen Kumar Jha Part IV: Negotiating the City Space 12.The Purusharthi Refugee: Sindhi Migrants in Jaipur’s Walled City Garima Dhabhai 13.‘Once a Migrant, Always a Migrant’? Negotiating Home and Belongingness in the City of Kolkata Swati Mantri 14.Figure of the Migrant as Other: Experiences, Memory and the Politics of Belonging Sadan Index