Migration, modernity, and social transformation in South Asia /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2004.
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| Series: | Contributions to Indian sociology. Occasional studies ;
11. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- A nation 'living in different places': notes on the impossible work of purification in postcolonial Sri Lanka / Jonathan Spencer
- A case of capital-rich under-development: the paradoxical consequences of successful transnational entrepreneurship from Mirpur / Roger Ballard
- 'Save there, eat here': migrants, households and community identity among Pakhtuns in northern Pakistan / Francis Watkins
- Migration and Islamic reform in a port town of western India / Edward Simpson
- Migration and the commoditisation of ritual: sacrifice, spectacle and contestations in Kerala, India / Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella
- Veiled constructions: conflict, migration and modernity in eastern Sri Lanka / C.Y. Thangarajah
- Spirits of the womb: migration, reproductive choice and healing in Rajasthan / Maya Unnithan-Kumar
- Calcutta's labour migrants: encounters with modernity / Arjan de Hann
- Nehru's dream and the village 'waiting room': long-distance labour migrants to a central Indian steel town / Jonathan P. Parry
- Expectations and rewards of modernity: commitment and mobility among rural migrants in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu / Geert De Neve
- Seasonal migration, employer-worker interactions, and shifting ethnic identities in contemporary West Bengal / Ben Rogaly, [...] et al.
- Identities in motion: social exchange networks and rural-urban migration in Bangladesh / Randall Kuhn
- Circular migration and rural cosmopolitanism in India / Vinay Gidwani and K. Sivaramakrishnan.