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The marginal nation : transborder migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal
- Title
- The marginal nation : transborder migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal / Ranabir Samaddar.
- Author
- Samāddāra, Raṇabīra.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- 227 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Throughout South Asia, questions of 'illegal immigration' combined with those of 'national security' have acquired politically explosive dimensions in recent years. Dealing with transborder migrations from Bangladesh to West Bengal, The Marginal Nation analyzes these issues within a richer perspective which accommodates the historical, cultural and geographic dimensions along with the economic and demographic." "Based on hitherto unused data, reports and travels along the borders and to the migrants' hamlets, this book forcefully challenges the approach which privileges the 'nation' above other forms of community. Dr. Samaddar argues for a new methodology which will accommodate the logic of historical continuity as well as the rights of the people compelled by circumstance to be on the move. The first study of its kind in the subcontinent, the volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of political science, sociology, history, human rights, demography and ethnic studies."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Immigrants > India > West Bengal
- Emigration and immigration
- Immigrants
- Social conditions
- Migratie (demografie)
- Nationale identiteit
- international migration
- irregular migrant
- migration policy
- frontier
- women
- caste
- nationalism
- religion
- colonialism
- sociological aspect
- statistical table
- Diasporas
- migration internationale
- migrant irrégulier
- politique migratoire
- frontière
- femmes
- nationalisme
- colonialisme
- aspect sociologique
- tableau statistique
- migración internacional
- migrante irregular
- política migratoria
- frontera
- mujeres
- casta
- nacionalismo
- religión
- colonialismo
- aspecto sociológico
- cuadros estadísticos
- West Bengal (India) > Emigration and immigration
- Bangladesh > Emigration and immigration
- West Bengal (India) > Social conditions
- Bangladesh
- India > West Bengal
- Bangladesh
- India
- Bengale-Occidental (Inde) > Émigration et immigration > 1945- ..
- Bengale-Occidental (Inde) > Conditions sociales > 1945- ..
- Bangladesh > Émigration et immigration > 1945- ..
- Inde
- Genre/Form
- map.
- photograph.
- carte géographique.
- photographie.
- fotografía.
- mapa.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.
- Contents
- Machine derived contents note: The World of the Edges -- Legality, Illegality and Reasons of State -- Those Accounts -- Continuities, Discontinuities -- A Hossain Mia of Today? -- Caste and Other Affinal Ties -- Cartographic Representations and Anxieties -- Naturalization, Valorization -- Proletarianization, Lumpenization and Their Metaphors -- Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche -- A Village in Malda -- Shefali -- The Numbers Game.
- ISBN
- 8170367441
- 9788170367444
- 0761992839
- 9780761992837
- LCCN
- 98028021
- OCLC
- ocm39391103
- 39391103
- SCSB-1206977
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library