Northeast Migrants in Delhi Race, Refuge and Retail
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ArtikelUtgivningsinformation: Amsterdam University Press 2012Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (225 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- Asia
- South Asia (Indian sub-continent)
- India
- Interest qualifiers
- Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
- Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- Migration, immigration and emigration
- Sociology and anthropology
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- 1F Asia
- 1FK South Asia (Indian sub-continent)
- 1FKA India
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- 5PBC Relating to migrant groups
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- JB Society and culture
- JBF Social and ethical issues
- JBFH Migration
- JH Sociology and anthropology
- Manipur
- Nagaland
- Racism
- anthropologie
- anthropology
- cultures and other groupings of people
- delhi
- diaspora communities or peoples
- ethnic groups
- general
- immigration and emigration
- india
- indigenous peoples
- migratie
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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.
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