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Introduction: Migration and Food Production in Emilia Romagna -- Migration, Transnationalism, Culture -- Social Isolation, Uncertainty and Change: Women's experience of Mobility and its Consequences -- The Dilemmas of Being Young and an Immigrant: Family, Belonging, and Freedom -- Pathways of Integration: Individual and Collective Strategies for 'Co-integration'.

"Teacher, thinker, writer, and speaker, J. Krishnamurti (1985-1986) was an Indian educationist, spiritual leader, and a key figure in world philosophy. He raised significant questions about the state of the world, about our tendency to remain passive, conditioned and in a state of overwhelming confusion about how we relate to the world. Through talks and writings spread over many decades and geographical locations, he articulated an unconditioned, reflective approach which emphasized self-inquiry. This volume provides an understanding of Krishnamurti's views on the human predicament in a disintegrating world, marked by conflict, divisions, wars, and climate change. It also examines his educational thought and its enormous potential for change. Krishnamurti argued that our minds are so conditioned that we are unable to look, listen or learn without our prior knowledge that foregrounds the role of memory and time. He highlighted the need to work with young children, with a special focus on the school as the centrepiece of his perception for psychological development and educational excellence. It is within an educational setting that Krishnamurti hoped that the seeds for individual and social change will be catalysed. An introspective look at the life and legacy of an eminent 20th century thinker, this volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of philosophy, education, religion and spirituality, South Asia studies, modern history, and the social sciences"--

Exclusionary practices perpetuated through state policies -- Gender, identity and the state

Cover -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: 'Making Incomplete': Identity, Woman and the State -- 2 From India to an Indian Diaspora to a Mauritian Diaspora: Back-Linking as a Means for Women to Feel Good Locally -- 3 Women in Between: The Case of Bangladeshi Women Living in London -- 4 Being American, Learning to be Indian: Gender and Generation in the Context of Transnational Migration -- 5 Singular Predicaments: Unmarried Female Migrants and the Changing Bangladeshi Family -- 6 Breaking the Silence: Identity Politics and Social Suffering -- 7 Women, Home and Belonging in UK Immigration Policy -- 8 Gender, Race and Racism: The Ban of the Islamic Headscarf in France -- 9 Cultured Girls: Race, Multiculturalism andthe Canadian State -- 10 Betwixt the State and Everyday Life: Identity Formation among Bengali Migrantsin a Delhi Slum -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

This article examines the relationship between social justice, education and inequality through an intersectional lens. Emphasising the role of the state, and 'state-thought', in perpetuating inequalities through education, the reflective essay argues that it is not possible to view education only in its role as an agent of social and cultural reproduction. It is equally important to focus on the lived experience of subjects who are either excluded, or go through the educational process, through varied experience based on religion, caste and gender. The role of teachers in this process cannot be underestimated and is at the heart of how children and young adults learn and understand themselves as citizens. Based on secondary material, the article concludes with a plea for recognising the significance of voice and agency for a robust and functioning democracy. It is the task of education to enable the articulation and expression of such agency by building a culture of openness and questioning and empowering teachers and students to have this voice by allowing it to thrive in the prevailing culture of institutions.

In its search for a meaningful disciplinary enterprise, anthropology focuses on those 'others' who live at the edge of civilisational chaos, the marginalised, underprivileged, those cast aside or abandoned, as well as the middle classes and the elite, as they construct their social worlds. In Asia, or at least in India, our anthropological gaze is not focused on those Westerners (in the twentieth century) who aspire to fulfil their goals through an imagining of a social and 'spiritual' landscape in India. In this article, I argue that Western imaginings of spiritual India rest not merely on their efforts to embed themselves in a local spiritual enterprise. More importantly, it rests on their understanding of their active role, as they envisage it, in the context of a changing India. I refer to these Western, single women protagonists as the 'new missionaries' who seek responsibility, and simultaneously fulfilment, through their participation in spiritual living. In this manner, the colonial gaze and the ensuing privilege are reproduced and enable them to act in particular ways. No doubt, gender, sexuality, rejection, and fulfilment and the inevitable place of charismatic others are all part of this significant process of becoming in India.

This article seeks to understand the experience of Tibetan youth in exile in India on three interlinked registers: the first is premised on the context in which they are in exile. The second register examines their experience of this process itself. Finally, the article seeks to understand how youth deal with their experience of being 'single' (being separated from family left behind in Tibet) as well as of being 'alone' in an unfamiliar and alien context. For these youth, the quest for recovery of self that appears to have been traumatised through physical separation both from the family and from the national territory is located in the pursuit of academic knowledge, certification and employment opportunities. Based on interviews conducted with Tibetan youth in Delhi and Dharamshala in northern India, this article also seeks to engage with Agamben's idea of the 'bare life' and simultaneously with understanding the possibilities of human agency in the face of loss of statehood and personal freedom.

INTERACT - Researching Third Country Nationals' Integration as a Three-way Process - Immigrants, Countries of Emigration and Countries of Immigration as Actors of Integration ; The Indian government has developed a policy framework in relation to emigration, as well as to its diaspora. The government, indeed, has recognized the significant role played by its diaspora in several countries and has taken measures to integrate these with the country of origin. The attempts have been geared, inter alia, towards: encouraging foreign investment in India through its emigrants; extending voting rights to a certain category of emigrants; getting dual citizenship for Indian emigrants in many countries; organizing annual events such as Pravasi Bhartiya Divas to offer a formal platform for recognition of the achievements of men and women with Indian origins abroad; and setting up high level committees and advisory boards on the Indian diaspora. ; INTERACT is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union

CARIM-India: Developing a knowledge base for policymaking on India-EU migration ; Based on fieldwork with immigrants of Indian origin and with Italian doctors, social workers, teachers, and employers around Fidenza and Parma in northern Italy, this paper seeks to understand the social and cultural dilemmas of being an immigrant in Europe. The dilemma of isolation and uncertainty is most starkly understood by migrant women in their fraught experience of being marginalised and excluded in both the domestic sphere as well as in the social worlds they inhabit. This paper seeks to decipher the multiplicity of experience in bounded urban spaces as well as in rural farms in the region. ; CARIM-India is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union