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Northeast migrants in Delhi : race, retail and retail / Duncan McDuie-Ra.
Lippincott Library HB2100.D45 M33 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDuie-Ra, Duncan.
- Series:
- IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 9.
- IIAS publications series. Monographs ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--India--Delhi.
- Migration, Internal.
- Rural-urban migration--India--Delhi.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Sociology, Urban--India--Delhi.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Anthropology.
- India--Delhi.
- Physical Description:
- 203 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India's north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation's capital. Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Despite burgeoning interest in the region, little attention is given to the thousands of migrants leaving the region for Indian cities for refuge, work, and study. The stories of Northeast migrants reveal an everyday Northeast India rarely captured elsewhere and offer an alternative view of contemporary India. Northeast migrants covet the employment opportunities created by India's embrace of globalization; shopping malls, restaurants, and call centres. Yet Northeast migrants also experience high levels of racism, harassment, and violence. Far from simply victims of the city, Northeast migrants have created their own 'map' of Delhi, enabling a sense of belonging, albeit an uneasy one. Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, urban studies, geography, migration, and Asian Studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 13
- Looking for an everyday Northeast 15
- Finding a Starting Point 20
- Terminology 27
- Structure of the book 32
- 2 Leaving the Northeast 35
- The Making of the Frontier 35
- Tribe 36
- Colonial encounters 38
- Insurgency 40
- The State of Exception 40
- The Migration Moment 44
- Refuge 49
- Livelihoods 50
- Aspirations 52
- Attitudes towards India 55
- Labour recruitment 57
- Connectivity 59
- 3 Coming to Delhi 61
- Explaining Delhi's Popularity 62
- Delhi meri jaan 65
- Inclusion in the Exclusionary City 71
- New consumer spaces 71
- The Services Sector 75
- Education City 77
- Job prospects 78
- Education back home 80
- Prestige 82
- Brain Drain 83
- 4 Backward, Head-hunter, Sexy, Chinky 87
- The Racialised Frontier 89
- Backward and exotic 92
- Anti-national 93
- Anti-assimilation 95
- Loose and immoral 96
- Discrimination 98
- Harassment and violence 103
- Responding to Racism 108
- Tolerance 109
- Retaliation 110
- Safety 112
- Race in Contemporary India 115
- 5 Provincial Men, Worldly Women 119
- Gendered mythmaking 120
- Urbane Women, Provincial Men 125
- City Love, Frontier Politics 130
- Stuck in Delhi 134
- Fluidity and Adaption 138
- Subaltern masculinity 138
- Cosmopolitan masculinity 141
- 6 Place-making in the City 145
- The Northeast Map of Delhi 147
- Neighbourhoods 149
- Food 153
- Religion 157
- Protesting in Delhi: New places, new identities? 160
- Solidarity 164
- Cosmopolitanism 166
- Fashion and music 167
- The Korean Wave 170
- Global Christian Culture 173
- 7 Conclusion 177
- Further Research 178
- Borderlands and citizenship 178
- Ethnic Minorities and Asian Cities 182
- Cosmopolitanism 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9089644229
- 9789089644220
- OCLC:
- 808077147
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