The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala: Reading Borders and Belonging by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil (2024): A Review by Amratha Lekshmi
The Gulf always reminds me of my mother’s recurring tales of how her uncle, who migrated to the Gulf from…
Navigating Methodological Terrains: Indian Researchers and African Interlocutors Building Shared Understanding – Shambhavi Bhushan
Moving Through Life In today’s discussion, I aim to highlight the parallels between the experiences of migrant interlocutors in the…
Food: A Unifying Thread for the Bodos in Delhi – Pallavi Rabha
Food is one of the most important elements in our lives. For one thing, it is essential for our survival.…
Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? By Amrita Datta (2023): A Review by Aruna Bhattacharya
Amrita Datta’s Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move? (published by Palgrave Macmillan) in 2023 goes beyond…
Kinship in Crisis: Navigating Immigration Amidst a Global Pandemic – Sarah Nandi
Introduction Immigration is one of the most hotly contested electoral issues, but the discourses of migration politics often invisibilize the…
Why Would I be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Reena Kukreja (2022): A Review by Khushbu Sharma
Marriage as an institution has not received adequate attention from the ‘mainstream’ and ‘traditional’ political science. Owing to its relegation…
African Clusters in India by Koyal Verma (2023): A Review by Sara Bardhan
In the last few decades, migration and globalisation have become the foci of extensive investigation across disciplines, including in urban…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil by Andrea Wright (2021): A Review by Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
The secret behind oil as a commodity is labour, Andrea Wright reminds us. Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and…
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India’s Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil (2023): A Review by Swasti Vardhan Mishra
The book, Migrants and Machine Politics: Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness by Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil(Princeton: Princeton University Press…