Overview
Contributes in a major way to migration and refugee studies in South Asia
Conceptualizes borderlands as fluid and dynamic spaces
Discusses issues ranging from trading, forced migration, terrorism, encampments, and resettlement across South Asia
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Transborder Mobility, Borders, and Citizenship Dilemmas
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Everyday State and Statelessness
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The Making and (Un)Making of Borders
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Migration in South Asia
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Keywords
- transborder mobility in northern Sri Lanka
- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
- Chins in Indo-Myanmar
- Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
- bounded citizenship
- postnational citizenship
- refugee status and cultural belonging
- Afghan refugees in Pakistan
- Pakistan National Refugee Strategy
- forced migration in the Sundarban delta
- violence in Kashmir
- trafficking in Nepal
- open borders between India and Nepal
- refugee enclaves and statelessness
- ecological and political borders
- environmental refugees
- citizenship
About this book
This volume is about migration across South Asia and the complex negotiation of borders by people and the states in the process. A border is understood as a form of demarcation, but it also opens up the flow of people, goods, and ideas of legality and illegality. Borders are dynamic and dyadic in the interface of state and non-state actors involved in border operations. Consequently, transborder movement becomes a complex web involving concerns of security, trade, militancy, and questions of citizenship, along with discourses of ghettoisation, belonging and otherness. Since the mid-20th century, the South Asian region has witnessed growing social and political instability and breakdown of regional cooperation. In this context, the volume casts a wide, interdisciplinary lens across South Asia and discusses economic migration as well as forced migration due to persecution and natural disasters. It looks at how understandings of ‘territoriality’ and ‘border’ become blurred due to increasing transborder migration in the region: how states in South Asia address transborder movements at both policy level and on the ground; and how borderlands become spaces for illegal trade and informal economy in South Asia and for negotiations between states and refugees on identity and citizenship.
This highly topical volume is for a wide group of scholars and students interested in South Asia, ranging from sociology, anthropology, political science, history, to interdisciplinary fields like migration studies, peace and conflict studies, and development studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nasir Uddin is a Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.
Nasreen Chowdhory is a Political Scientist and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia
Editors: Nasir Uddin, Nasreen Chowdhory
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2778-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2777-3Published: 20 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2778-0Published: 31 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 228
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Citizenship, History of South Asia