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Record Nr.

UNINA9910508310403321

Autore

Jones Reece

Titolo

Borders and mobility in South Asia and beyond / / edited by Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2018

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2018

ISBN

90-485-3522-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Asian borderlands ; ; 7.

Disciplina

305.8914

Soggetti

South Asian diaspora

Borderlands - South Asia

South Asians - Foreign countries

South Asia Boundaries

South Asia Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section I; 1 Spaces of Refusal; 2 Border Layers; 3 Experiencing the Border; Section II; 4 Of Insiders, Outsiders, and Infiltrators; 5 Renegotiating Boundaries; 6 'The Immoral Traffic in Women'; 7 The Journey to Europe; 8 Hardening Regional Borders; Section III; 9 The Borders of Integration; 10 Disordering History and Collective Memory in Gunvantrai Acharya's Dariyalal; 11 Fragmented Lives; Conclusion; Index; List of Figures; Figure 2.1 Land Customs Stations in Northeast India.

Figure 2.2 Locations of Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh BorderFigure 3.1 The Chittagong Hill Tracts; Figure 3.2 The Sajek Valley; Figure 7.1 Typical Afghan Transportation; Figure 7.2 Akbar's Route to Europe; Figure 10.1 Ramjibha's Identity Tangent.

Sommario/riassunto

The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf



countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.