Migration, modernity, and social transformation in South Asia /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Osella, Filippo, Gardner, Katy, 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004.
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.