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The marginal nation : transborder migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal

Title
  1. The marginal nation : transborder migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal / Ranabir Samaddar.
Published by
  1. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1999.
Author
  1. Samāddāra, Raṇabīra.

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Description
  1. 227 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
  1. "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
  1. Immigrants > India > West Bengal
  2. Emigration and immigration
  3. Immigrants
  4. Social conditions
  5. Migratie (demografie)
  6. Nationale identiteit
  7. international migration
  8. irregular migrant
  9. migration policy
  10. frontier
  11. women
  12. caste
  13. nationalism
  14. religion
  15. colonialism
  16. sociological aspect
  17. statistical table
  18. Diasporas
  19. migration internationale
  20. migrant irrégulier
  21. politique migratoire
  22. frontière
  23. femmes
  24. nationalisme
  25. colonialisme
  26. aspect sociologique
  27. tableau statistique
  28. migración internacional
  29. migrante irregular
  30. política migratoria
  31. frontera
  32. mujeres
  33. casta
  34. nacionalismo
  35. religión
  36. colonialismo
  37. aspecto sociológico
  38. cuadros estadísticos
  39. West Bengal (India) > Emigration and immigration
  40. Bangladesh > Emigration and immigration
  41. West Bengal (India) > Social conditions
  42. Bangladesh
  43. India > West Bengal
  44. Bangladesh
  45. India
  46. Bengale-Occidental (Inde) > Émigration et immigration > 1945- ..
  47. Bengale-Occidental (Inde) > Conditions sociales > 1945- ..
  48. Bangladesh > Émigration et immigration > 1945- ..
  49. Inde
Genre/Form
  1. map.
  2. photograph.
  3. carte géographique.
  4. photographie.
  5. fotografía.
  6. mapa.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-222) and index.