Gender, Identity and Migration in India

The book focuses on voices of displaced women who constitute a critical part of the migration process through an unravelling of the engendered displacement. It draws attention to the various processes, methods and approaches by national and international human rights and humanitarian laws and principles, and the experiences of the relevant communities, organisations towards peaceful co-existence. The contributions to this volume embellish the argument that there is a direct correlation between an academic researcher's positionality, methods and trajectories of critical knowledge production. In particular, feminist epistemologies with specific emphasis on post-coloniality utilized in conjunction with scholarship related to transnational migration studies constitute a distinctly powerful vantage point for challenging methodological nationalism and the syndrome of 'seeing like the state' in the area of forced migration studies.

Focuses on the migration, and refugee studies with the cases in India Focuses on gender, identity and migration in India Provides understanding of engendered displacement

Auteur

Nasreen Chowdhory, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India

Paula Banerjee, Professor, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta West Bengal, India.

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The book focuses on voices of displaced women who constitute a critical part of the migration process through an unravelling of the engendered displacement. It draws attention to the various processes, methods and approaches by national and international human rights and humanitarian laws and principles, and the experiences of the relevant communities, organisations towards peaceful co-existence. The contributions to this volume embellish the argument that there is a direct correlation between an academic researcher's positionality, methods and trajectories of critical knowledge production. In particular, feminist epistemologies with specific emphasis on post-coloniality utilized in conjunction with scholarship related to transnational migration studies constitute a distinctly powerful vantage point for challenging methodological nationalism and the syndrome of 'seeing like the state' in the area of forced migration studies.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Methodologies and the Production of Knowledge in Forced Migration Contexts.- Chapter 2: Life In Conflict: Exploring the lived experiences of the forced migrants in a Camp.- Chapter 3: What Is Feminist About Studying Women's Forced Migration.- Chapter 4: Camp as the Place of Exception in Forced Migration Studies.- Part II: Labour, Development and the Migrant Body.- Chapter 5: If Only I Were a Male? Work, Value and the Female Body.- Chapter 6: Identity Of The Woman Worker: A Dialogue Between Trade Union And Street Theatre: A Study Of Aurat And Woh Bol Uthi.- Chapter 7: Development, Displacement and Sense of Place.- Chapter 8: The Reproductive Laborers of the Indian gestational Surrogacy Market.- Part III: Identity, Borders and Borderland.- Chapter 9: Shifting Sands, Migrants and Mobilities in the Brahmaputra Valley.- Chapter 10: The Legacy of Partition and Structural Victimisation of the People of Border land: A Case of Punjab.- Part IV: Gender, Conflict and Migration.- Chapter 11: Women In India's Maoist Ranks.- Chapter 12: Women, Conflict and Conflict Reporting: The Deeply Gendered Discourse on the Rohingya Crisis in the Indian News Websites.- Chapter 13: Armed unto life: The gun and Maoist Guerrilla women in Nepal.- Chapter 14: Gender and Invisible Migration -Understanding Sex trafficking in India.- Chapter 15: Conclusion.