Ranabir Samaddar, Burdens of an Epidemic: A Policy Perspective on Covid-19 and Migrant Labour
In: Journal of social inclusion studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 211-214
ISSN: 2516-6123
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In: Journal of social inclusion studies, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 211-214
ISSN: 2516-6123
In: The international journal of community and social development, Band 2, Heft 4, S. 489-490
ISSN: 2516-6034
In: The international journal of community and social development, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 286-287
ISSN: 2516-6034
In: Citizenship studies, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 514-529
ISSN: 1469-3593
In: Community development journal
ISSN: 1468-2656
Abstract
The construction of migrant population across India–Bangladesh borders is premised on cultural affiliation, religious sentiments and the contingent political economy. With a history of partition in different phases, the subjective conceptions of identity of migrants are layered and complex. The article unravels how identities of migrants are shaped in everyday life through the frame of legality–illegality, religious–political and economic–social aspects. Drawing on previous research and empirical engagement, the article engages with the questions on citizenship, residency, identity, belonging, exclusion and inclusion. The field work in the borderland district of North 24 Parganas provides rich description about the life and circumstances of migrants at the threshold of security and insecurity, belonging and unbelonging around layers of caste and communal tangle. The article presents a grounded understanding on the politics of documenting and phenomenon of maintaining undocumentedness. To explain the social construction of identity, the article explores the role of Hindu nationalist ideas that influences the negotiation of migrant populations around religious lines; either accepted, ignored, patronized or kept insecure, susceptible to fear and exclusion.