Vol. II
Issue: 2
Journal of Migration Affairs
March 2020
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Thinking of Migration through Caste: Reading Oral Narratives of ‘Displaced Person(s)’ from East Pakistan (1950-1970)
This paper studies the 1947 Partition of India, more specifically the Partition of Bengal, which took place along with the Independence of India and Pakistan. Discourses around the Partition— an event of enduring socio-political significance — have predominantly focused on the moment of rupture that compelled individuals as well as their families to cross the Radcliffe Line1 in search of a distant land touted as the safe haven. The word ‘safe’ here is loaded with significance.
READ MOREUnderstanding Life Work of Migrant Industrial Workers in Contemporary City of Global South: Bridging Urban Development with Precarity in Labour Market
The city of Faridabad, planned with Nehruvian vision in 1951, was built for the migrants who had arrived from Pakistan after the partition of India. The city was envisioned to provide work and housing to these migrants and hence large-scale industries were built along with housing colonies. Nehru had insisted on industrial development along modern lines, with proper workers’ quarters, to obviate the growth of slums (Jain 1998, 47-55).
READ MOREAn Empirical Analysis of Occupational and Economic Attainments of Labour Migrants from Bihar
Migration, as an economic process, has been indispensable to the human society. The phenomenon of migration involves various multidimensional aspects; understanding the process of migration therefore requires both macro and micro perspectives. A macro-level analysis involves delineating migration trends and patterns in a geographical space within a given time horizon, and also looking into the broader reasons for migration.
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Migration and the Making of a Village
The paper tries to bust the myth that only cities are made by migrants. Based on the author’s fieldwork in a village in Bihar, it shows how migration has also been crucial to the making of the village, and how the historical conditions and processes of the making of the village influenced, and continue to influence even today, the sense of home and belonging. A great deal of focus is on land, the most important resource from the point of view of both the living and the leaving, for early residents as well as late ‘settlers’.
READ MOREEncountering Gendered Spaces in Climate Change Policy in India: Migration and Adaptation
In India, as elsewhere in South Asia, climate variability and extreme weather conditions are responsible for exacerbating the risks confronting people. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5 th Assessment Report acknowledges the intersecting nature of hazard risks by using the terms ‘geophysical’, ‘agro-ecological’ and ‘socio-economic’ (IPCC 2014).
READ MORELabour Migration in the Tea Plantations: Colonial and Neo-Liberal Trajectories of Plantation Labour in the Dooars Tea Belt of West Bengal
Tea plantations in North Bengal, as elsewhere in India, share a colonial root. More often than not, tea plantations were developed in regions that were sparsely populated, to ensure that sufficient land was available for the propagation of plantations in the first place. What distinguishes tea plantation from other industries is the fact that the production process is heavily dependent on human labour for both on-field and factory operations.
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Journal of Migration Affairs
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