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Narrating African Migration: Perspectives and Chronotopes in Narrative Strategies
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This article adopts an illustrative approach to draw attention to the significance, scope and depth of a large range of African writers’ migration narratives – exploring aspects ranging from the forces propelling these movements to ways in which they are experienced
By Annie Gagiano
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Mapping Memory: Home and Belonging for Burma Repatriates in West Bengal
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Memory plays a vital role in the context of migration. It impacts the views, opinions, ideologies, beliefs, and perceptions of the people, further influencing every other sphere of their lives.
By Aratrika Ganguly | Pratim Das
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Migrants Fighting for Water Rights: Sangam Vihar and Deoli, Delhi
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What does the flow of water tell us about a city, its people and its mechanism of politics? Does this relationship give us insights into urban ecology and politics? In what ways are city, nature and social power interlinked?
By Ruchi Shree | Shashank Chaturvedi
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Migrant Labourers’ COVID-19 Lockdown Experience: Emerging Trajectory of Political Expression
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The COVID-19 lockdown in India presents a scenario where state action sharply exposed the everyday structural realities and vulnerabilities of the country’s migrant labourers to the public eye.
By Manish Maskara
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Walking on the Margins of the National Imagination: Migrant Workers Amid Covid-19
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As the Covid-19 pandemic gradually gripped the world, after its emergence in the city of Wuhan in China, countries prepared a response.1 While the first case in India emerged in late January, the government imposed a nationwide lockdown starting at midnight on 24 March.
By Devika Mittal | Nazish Hena Khan
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The Coronavirus Pandemic and the Overseas Indian Migrant Workers’ Crisis: Impacts on Polity and Foreign Policy
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the existential crises of Indian migrant workers, both domestic and overseas, to the centre stage of public discourse like never before.
By Rupak Bhattacharjee
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Narrating African Migration: Perspectives and Chronotopes in Narrative Strategies