Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 187-202, June 2022. In this article, I explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of migrant cab drivers in the Indian city of Hyderabad. Drawing on ethnographic data collected before and during the…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 322-324, June 2022. Arvind Mohan, Bihari Mazdooron ki Peeda [The Pains of Bihari Labourers], (Hindi) Radhakrishna Prakashan, New Delhi, 2017, ₹172 pp., ISBN: 978-81-8361-847-2 (Hardcover).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 319-321, June 2022. Abhishek Saha, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis, HarperCollins, 2021, 303 pp., ₹599, ISBN-10 9390351855 (Paperback).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 317-319, June 2022. Vinod Kapri, 1232 km: The Long Journey Home. HarperCollins, India, 2021, 232 pp, ₹399, ISBN13: 9789354226519 (Paperback).
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 291-307, June 2022. The Partition of 1947 saw approximately 8 million Hindus and Sikhs leave Pakistan to settle in India and 6–7 million Muslims leave India to settle in Pakistan between 1947 and 1951. This artic…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 239-256, June 2022. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study of 30 internal migrants working in informal occupations in Delhi, I show that the everyday lived experience of these migrants in India is negotiated by…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 257-275, June 2022. While metropolitan cities are framed as emancipatory spaces for women migrants, we know less about their experiences in smaller cities, which are driving urban transformation in India. Drawing…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 276-290, June 2022. This article traces the experiences of accompanying wives who had migrated with their husbands from southern Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and returned to their villages during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 175-186, June 2022. The hyper-precarity, enforced immobility and invisibility of India’s migrant workforce have been starkly in focus since March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began. The papers in this special …
Publication date: Available online 9 November 2021Source: Asian Journal of Social ScienceAuthor(s): Y. Yuan, E. Fong, S.Z. Li, Z.S. Yue