Continuity in Mind: Imagination and migration in India and the Gulf
| Autor: | Thomas Chambers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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History
060101 anthropology Sociology and Political Science 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Gender studies Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Emotive Ethnography 0601 history and archaeology Uttar pradesh Psychology 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | Modern Asian Studies. 52:1420-1456 |
| ISSN: | 1469-8099 0026-749X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0026749x1700049x |
| Popis: | In the context of migration between Uttar Pradesh, other areas of India, and the Gulf, this article explores the role of the imagination in shaping subjective experiences of male Muslim migrants from a woodworking industry in the North Indian city of Saharanpur. Through attending to the dreams, aspirations, and hopes of labour migrants, the article argues that bridging the material and the imagined is critical to understanding not just patterns of migration, but also the subjective experiences of migrants themselves. Through a descriptive ethnographic account, involving journeys with woodworkers over one and a half years, the article explores the ways in which migration, its effects, and connections are shaped by the imagination, yet are also simultaneously active in shaping the imagination—a process that is self-perpetuating. Emerging from this, the article gives attention to continuity at the material, personal, and more emotive levels. This runs counter to research that situates migration as rupturing or change-driving within both the social and the subjective. These continuities play out in complex ways, providing comfort and familiarity, but also enabling the imaginations of migrants to be subverted, co-opted, influenced, and structured to meet the demands of labour markets both domestically and abroad. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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