Vol. V
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Journal of Migration Affairs
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Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now: Reshaping the Migrant’s Sensibility Revealed through his Diasporic Re-search in India
The third book of V.S. Naipaul’s Indian travels, India: A Million Mutinies Now, is written with his earlier books on India in mind and is another revisal, another re- seeing of what had been wrongly judged in the past.
READ MORESituating the Refugee: A Biopolitical Inquiry into Deep Halder’s Blood Island
The paper uses the biopolitical framework conceptualised by Foucault and Agamben to critically examine the figure of the refugee and its representation in Deep Halder’s Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre.
READ MOREBearing Witness to Racial Hatred and Challenging Patriarchy: An Intersectional Approach to Violet Cannon’s Migration Memoir, Gypsy Princess: The True Story of a Romany Childhood
The paper explores how Violet Cannon, a Romany Gypsy writer, poignantly presents the saga of Gypsy life in her memoir Gypsy Princess: The True Story of a Romany Childhood. In her own inimitable way
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Reclamation of the Istanbul City and the Migrant Flâneuse in Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
The paper argues that Elif Shafak’s novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, constructs a counter-narrative to Istanbul’s existing narratives as a cosmopolitan city by recounting the lived bodily experiences of a migrant flâneuse.
READ MOREA Land to Call One’s Own; Looking at Attia Hosain’s Essay Deep Roots to Understand Her Sense of Belonging/Alienation as a Migrant
Attia Hosain (1913-1998), a novelist and a short story writer, was born and educated in Lucknow. In 1947, she moved to England and worked at BBC, where she presented her own women’s programmes. Attia Hosain’s essay Deep Roots
READ MOREThe Journey from ‘Darkness’ to ‘Light’: Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and the Phenomenon of Rural to Urban Internal Migration in India
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger (2008), has over the years been widely studied from different perspectives, but its engagement with the theme of internal migration has remained unexplored. This paper seeks to address
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