Fictions of freedom : migration, modern slavery and bureaucracy in India / Pankhuri Agarwal

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agarwal, Pankhuri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--India.

Human trafficking.

Slavery--India.

Slavery.

Bureaucracy--India.

Bureaucracy.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Fictions of Freedom emerges from the fact of anti-trafficking interventions having led to newer forms of oppressions and entanglements of bureaucracy. Situating the lives of sex workers and daily-wage earning labourers through a multi-sited ethnography in India, this book opens up an examination of the rescue industry alongside migration and informality, and how the lived reality of the workers is crowded with sociopolitical unfairness, individual and state-sponsored violence, informal debt, gender and caste-based hierarchies,and limited livelihood options. It aims to offer a critical lens into the practices, modalities, and contestations through which freedom is lived and asserted in India"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Push and pull

Saviour

Rupture

Bureaucracy

Waiting

Return

Provocations

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Agarwal, Pankhuri Fictions of freedom

ISBN:

9781009628372

1009628372

OCLC:

1591605549

Publisher Number:

CIPO000377178