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Posts from the ‘Issue 9/Inland Labor Migration in India’ Category

Aug 1

Class, Subalternity, and Ethical Choice in Modern India

By Anupama Mohan
In this brief essay, I want to consider two films in juxtaposition: Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and Kiran Rao’s Dhobi Ghat. Both films have something to teach us about the very nature of representation of the theme of migrancy, the difficulties and challenges that lie at the very heart of presenting in film a concise account of the incredibly complex lives of those who are marked by deracination, dispossession, and devolution, even as the art-form must struggle definitionally with its generic boundaries and spectator-ly expectations of plot, character development, song, and entertainment/edification.

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Aug 1

Women’s Mobility and Migration in Jamia Nagar: An agential approach

By Meenakshi Thapan, Anshu Singh & Nidhitha Sreekumar
Migration to Delhi also involves freedom from violence in the domestic sphere and from communal violence, for example, in Bhagalpur, Bihar. Women who were suffering domestic violence or were abandoned by their husbands had moved to Delhi to obtain education and jobs, overcoming the dependence on their family or the families of their husbands. This is in contrast to the popular belief that Muslim women find it difficult to move out of a marriage.

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Aug 1

‘Roshogullah in a plastic plate’: Bengali migrant workers in Gurgaon

By Prerit Rana
Once you enter the colony, the first thing you would notice is the pervasiveness of signboards in Bengali. But, no need to worry. You would be able to talk to most of the people in Hindi, except those who have recently migrated. A decade back when they started migrating to the villages, dominated by the Yadavs of Haryana, the language used to be the first barrier.

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