Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia

Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia
Author: Sunil S. Amrith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139497030

Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For centuries migrants have tracked the routes and seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims, soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea. Over the last 150 years, however, migration within Asia and beyond has been greater than at any other time in history. Sunil S. Amrith's engaging and deeply informative book crosses a vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and China, tracing the history of modern migration. Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells the stories of those forced to flee from war and revolution, and those who left their homes and their families in search of a better life. These stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or poignant, but they all speak of an engagement with new landscapes and new peoples.

South Asia's Modern History

South Asia's Modern History
Author: Michael Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317624459

This comprehensive history of modern South Asia explores the historical development of the Subcontinent from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day from local and regional, as opposed to European, perspectives. Michael Mann charts the role of emerging states within the Mughal Empire, the gradual British colonial expansion in the political setting of the Subcontinent and shows how the modern state formation usually associated with Western Europe can be seen in some regions of India, linking Europe and South Asia together as part of a shared world history. This book looks beyond the Subcontinent’s post-colonial history to consider the political, economic, social and cultural development of Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as Sri Lanka and Nepal, and to examine how these developments impacted the region’s citizens. South Asia’s Modern History begins with a general introduction which provides a geographical, environmental and historiographical overview. This is followed by thematic chapters which discuss Empire Building and State Formation, Agriculture and Agro-Economy, Silviculture and Scientific Forestry, Migration, Circulation and Diaspora, Industrialisation and Urbanisation and Knowledge, Science, Technology and Power, demonstrating common themes across the decades and centuries. This book will be perfect for all students of South Asian history.

South Asia Migration Report 2020

South Asia Migration Report 2020
Author: S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000090507

South Asia Migration Report 2020 documents key themes of exploitation and entrepreneurship of migrants from the region. This volume: • Includes dedicated fieldwork from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal; • Analyses the impact of South-Asia-migrant-established businesses; • Examines legal and legislative recourse against exploitation in destination countries; • Factors in how migration as a phenomenon negotiates with gender, environment and even healthcare. This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, gender studies, labour studies and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers, think tanks and government institutions working in the area.

Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas

Migration, Development and Social Change in the Himalayas
Author: Madleina Daehnhardt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2019-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429619782

This book teases out the reasons for, and the socio-economic impacts of, different types of migration on contemporary rural households and individuals. The author creatively depicts the dynamic microcosm of one village in the North Indian Kumaun Himalayas, near the border with Chinese Tibet, giving voice to the life stories of a range of migrants. Through this ethnography, migration is revealed as a fundamental part of the multifaceted 21st-century changes which the village is experiencing. From elderly women, to unemployed men, young farm women and local children, the book demonstrates how village life is continually constituted socially and economically by overlapping migration patterns – including outmigration, return migration, in-migration and even non-migration. Extending the argument, the author demonstrates that the village microcosm is linked to many other villages which are microcosms in their own right as well as in relation to the main village across a spatial hierarchy. The theoretical implications of the study are teased out to inform our understanding of rural-urban migration trends and impacts more generally, and as such the book will be of interest to researchers of the South Asian region but also of internal migration in the global context.

Islamic Reform in South Asia

Islamic Reform in South Asia
Author: Filippo Osella
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107031753

The articles in this volume build up ethnographic analysis complementary to the historiography of South Asian Islam, which has explored the emergence of reformism in the context of specific political and religious circumstances of nineteenth century British India. Taking up diverse popular and scholarly debates as well as everyday religious practices, this volume also breaks away from the dominant trend of mainstream ethnographic work, which celebrates sufi-inspired forms of Islam as tolerant, plural, authentic and so on, pitted against a 'reformist' Islam. Urging a more nuanced examination of all forms of reformism and their reception in practice, the contributions here powerfully demonstrate the historical and geographical specificities of reform projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing perspectives in which substantially different traditions of reform are lumped together into one reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as 'wah'habism') and branded as extremist - if not altogether demonised as terrorist.

Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia

Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
Author: Philip F. Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131799504X

Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized workforce, contestation over resource access, and the juxtaposition of culturally different groups. At the same time, everyday mobility stretches the spatial boundaries of village and family life. The bounded space of the village is no longer adequate to understand the dynamics that are driving (and resulting from) rural social change. This collection of original studies explores the cultural, economic and environmental dimensions of intensifying migration and mobility in rural Southeast Asia at multiple scales. Diverse processes are explored including rural-urban flows, rural-rural movement, everyday mobilities, and international migrations into regional and global labour markets. Drawing on fieldwork in six countries across the region, these essays also explore what migration means for our understanding of class, citizenship, gender and the state in a rapidly changing part of the world. This book was based on two parts of a special issue of Critical Asian Studies.

India Migration Report 2013

India Migration Report 2013
Author: S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000365859

This volume is an empirical assessment of an often-neglected space in migration research — social, psychological and human costs for both migrants and the families they leave behind — based on qualitative and quantitative research findings. Globally, the focus of migration research has consisted of the intersections of migration and remittances. This overemphasis on remittances obscures the contributions and sacrifices made by migrants and their families. With this backdrop in view, India Migration Report 2013 documents issues such as: • Children’s negotiation of parental migration • Coping mechanisms adopted by women left behind • Utilization of social networks by the elderly during a health crisis • Demographic implications of migration • Household management and child care by spouses of migrant nurses • Lifestyle management by the elderly, who migrate with their children, in the absence of other traditional and familiar kinship structures • Transition costs involved in peasant migration • Social costs of migration in the case of emigration to the Gulf region • Broader impacts of migration on the family In addition, the book also includes articles dealing with nurses’ migration, skilled mobility, informalization of labour markets, mobility of women workers, global financial crisis and return migration, remittances management and a critical assessment of bilateral mobility agreements among nations to protect Indian workers. It will be of interest to those in migration studies, sociology, law, economics, gender studies, diaspora studies, international relations and demography, apart from non-governmental organizations, policy-makers and governmental institutions working in the field of migration.

An Everyday Geography of the Global South

An Everyday Geography of the Global South
Author: Jonathan Rigg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007-06-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134184913

The book will be an 'everyday' geography of the Global South that places 'development' in the background and brings detailed, grounded understanding of the ways in which individuals and household make a living.

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces

Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces
Author: Tai-Chee Wong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136923799

This book explores how migration plays a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the rapidly changing cities of Asia. The contributors examine the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the arena of urban change, considering low-skilled domestic migrants, professional transnational migrant and legal and illegal international migrants.