This book covers a wide array of issues pertinent to migration and refugee studies. It interrogates new issues on the frontiers of migration, such as statelessness, ethics of care, labor and migration, and subjectivity of migration. Broadly divided into four categories: understanding the registers, issue of public health, care and migrants, the question of labor and migration, and the subjectivity of migrants and refugees. The chapters present a well-structured analytical and methodological framework on register of migration. They bring an entire gamut of issues under its purview. The book provides an excellent resource for researchers, advocacy groups, and practitioners to engage with topics pertinent to refugee and migration studies.

Engages with issues that will remain in refugee and migration studies for long Authored by recognized experts in the field of migration Probes into new questions on the boundaries of migration, such as statelessness, ethics of care, labor and migration

Autorentext

Nasreen Chowdhory is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi. She received her PhD in Political Science from McGill University, Canada, where her research focused on repatriation and belonging in South Asia. A well-published academic, her work spans forced migration, citizenship, statelessness, and identity, with articles in journals such as Journal of Borderlands Studies, Citizenship Studies, Refugee Watch, and Peace Prints. She is co-editor of Gender, Identity and Migration in India (Springer, 2022) and contributes to ongoing projects on migration and refugee studies. She has also been the recipient of prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship (1999–2003) and the JRD Tata Award (1998–1999).  

Priya Singh is an IDRC Endowed Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre on Gender and Forced Displacement, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and Associate Director at Asia in Global Affairs, Kolkata. A well-published academic, her scholarship over the past two decades has explored questions of nationalism, identity, gender, and marginality in Israel and the wider West Asian region, and more recently in South and South-East Asia. Her current research focuses on migration, statelessness, and urban precarity in Bangkok and beyond, examining how environmental change and peri-urban transformation intersect with the city’s shifting geopolitical and socio-economic dynamics.  

Inhalt

Chapter 1. New Frontiers in the Register of Migration and Refugee Studies: An Introduction (Nasreen Chowdhory).- Part I. Understanding the Registers.- Chapter 2. Refugees and Migrants as Subjects of Economy and Politics (Ranabir Samaddar).- Chapter 3. Protection and Punishment: Twin Faces of Refugee Protection (Nasreen Chowdhory).- Chapter 4. Contested Displacement and Fractured Rights: The Case of POJK Displaced Persons in J&K (Gurvinder Kour).- Part II. Public Health, Care and Migrants.- Chapter 5. Liminal Lives: Migrants, Refugees and the Contested Terrain of Social Protection (Manish K. Jha).- Chapter 6. How Intimate is Intimate Labour in South Asia? The Intimate Workers of Kolkata (Paula Banerjee).- Chapter 7. Internal Migration, Health and Gender: Analysing the Relationship in the Indian Context (Megha).- Chapter 8. Problematizing the Global City Paradigm: Migrant Education, Social Infrastructure and Spatial Exclusion in Bangkok (Priya Singh).- Part III. Subjectivity of Migration.- Chapter 9. Rethinking Home from the Experience of Home[state]lessness: The Discursive Exposé of Rohingya Narratives from Cox's Bazar Camps (Niloy Ranjan Biswas).- Chapter 10. Contesting 'Citizenship': Voices of Pakistani Refugee Women (Roshni Sharma).- Chapter 11. The Efficacy of Practices: The PoliticalLegal World of Citizenry in Assam (Ankur Tamuli Phukan).- Chapter 12. Citizenship, Nationality and the Rights: Rohingya Children in Bangladesh (Sreetapa Chakrabarty).- Part IV. The Question of Labour and Migration.- Chapter 13. In Search of the 'Suitable Coolie': Homogenisation and Colonial Migration of Labour to the Tea Gardens of Assam (Anisha Bordoloi).- Chapter 14. A Report on Status of Women Migrant Workers of Nepal (Suman Mandal).- Chapter 15. Migrant Labour as Subjects of Economy and Objects of State Protection: The Predicaments of Circular Migration in the Construction Industry During the Pandemic (Kasturi Datta).