Migrants, Mobile Lives and Dissent (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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The world has seen an unprecedented scale of human mobility over the last two decades. Natural disasters, political and social conflicts, development-induced displacements, agrarian crises, rising unemployment and the recent COVID-19 pandemic, have compelled people to mobility. Discussions over the nature and extent of the ensuant inequalities contend that they are incomparably starker than before and have had an enervating effect on mobile populations. The book Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, cultural studies, inequality studies, migration and labour studies. It will be of use to social activists and policymakers as well.engendered through mobility, wherein mobility is associated with disintegration, uncertainty and eventual perishability.

A collection of mobile ethnographies from different parts of India, it focuses on the mobile lives, such as the Paniya plantation workers in Kerala, the homeless in Mumbai, the char-dwellers in Assam, the Rabaris of Kutch, Gujarat, migrant workers in Delhi and Mumbai, tribal youth of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, and the Musahars in Bihar. This diverse ensemble of mobile ethnographies not only provides a perspective on different modes of life, types of communities, and personhood that mobility engenders but also a distinct articulation of homecoming. The survival of these mobile populations chronicles their struggle to resist elimination and is an expression of dissent.

Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, cultural studies, inequality studies, migration and labour studies. It will be of use to social activists and policymakers as well.