Social Change
Book review: Praveen Kumar Jha, Coolie Lines
Social Change, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 324-326, June 2022. Praveen Kumar Jha, Coolie Lines. (Hindi) Vani Prakashan, 2019, 286 pp., ₹410, ISBN: 978-93-88684-04-0 (Hardcover)
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Book review: Arvind Mohan, Bihari Mazdooron ki Peeda [The Pains of Bihari Labourers]
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).
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Book review: Vinod Kapri, 1232 km: The Long Journey Home
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).
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Book review: Abhishek Saha, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis
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).
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Migration and ‘Intimate Citizenship’: The ‘Small Voice’ of Ansari Begum
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…
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State-Migrant Relations in India: Internal Migration, Welfare Rights and COVID-19
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…
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Testing the Waters: Young Women’s Work and Mobile Aspirations in India’s Small Cities
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…
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Married Women Migrating from Rural Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Juggling Family Duty and Aspirations
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…
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Navigating Hyper- Precarity: Im(mobilities) during the Covid Pandemic in India
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 …
Asian Journal of Social Science
Local resident composition in the community and local identity among rural migrants in Guangzhou, China
Publication date: Available online 9 November 2021Source: Asian Journal of Social ScienceAuthor(s): Y. Yuan, E. Fong, S.Z. Li, Z.S. Yue