Northeast migrants in Delhi : race, refuge and retail /
"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 regi...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | IIAS publications series. Monographs ;
9. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- Looking for an everyday Northeast
- Finding a Starting Point
- Terminology
- Structure of the book
- 2. Leaving the Northeast
- The Making of the Frontier
- Tribe
- Colonial encounters
- Insurgency
- The State of Exception
- The Migration Moment
- Refuge
- Livelihoods
- Aspirations
- Attitudes towards India
- Labour recruitment
- Connectivity
- 3. Coming to Delhi
- Explaining Delhi's Popularity
- Delhi meri jaan
- Inclusion in the Exclusionary City
- New consumer spaces
- The Services Sector
- Education City
- Job prospects
- Education back home
- Prestige
- Brain Drain
- 4. Backward, Head-hunter, Sexy, Chinky
- The Racialised Frontier
- Backward and exotic
- Anti-national
- Anti-assimilation
- Loose and immoral
- Discrimination
- Harassment and violence
- Responding to Racism
- Tolerance
- Retaliation
- Safety
- Race in Contemporary India
- 5. Provincial Men, Worldly Women
- Gendered mythmaking
- Urbane Women, Provincial Men
- City Love, Frontier Politics
- Stuck in Delhi
- Fluidity and Adaption
- Subaltern masculinity
- Cosmopolitan masculinity-- 6. Place-making in the City
- The Northeast Map of Delhi
- Neighbourhoods
- Food
- Religion
- Protesting in Delhi: New places, new identities?
- Solidarity
- Cosmopolitanism
- Fashion and music
- The Korean Wave
- Global Christian Culture-- 7. Conclusion
- Further Research
- Borderlands and citizenship
- Ethnic Minorities and Asian Cities
- Cosmopolitanism.