The Marginal Nation-Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal

Author: Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 228
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0761992839

Description

A brilliant tour de force! With his incisive analytical skill and marshalling of facts from human stories, Samaddar has created a new political category between alien and citizen-the migrant-which is going to exercise considerable influence on the political discourse in South Asia. It is a measure of Samaddar’s talent as a researcher and writer that the presentation of this complex socio-political and religious ethnographical phenomenon reads like something new and sometimes more suspenseful than any other publication on the subject. His interpretation is as authoritative as it is sensational. An invaluable contribution to the study of human migration in this part of the world.
-Biblio

The Marginal Nation is a learned, bold and provocative book, making for engaging reading, It is important to read this book, engage with its arguments, and on occasion disagree with them.
-Contributions to Indian Sociology

Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

The World of the Edges
Legality, Illegality and Reasons of State
Those Accounts
Continuities, Discontinuities
A Hossain Mia of Today?
Caste and Other Affinal Ties
Cartography-Representations and Anxieties
Naturalization, Valorization
Proletarianization, Lumpenization and their Metaphors
Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche
A Village in Malda
Shefali
The Numbers Game

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INDEX