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The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration (MODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES) - Hardcover

Book 18 of 26: Modern South Asia

Agarwala, Rina

 
9780197586396: The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration (MODERN SOUTH ASIA SERIES)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0197586392 ISBN 13: 9780197586396
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

In The Migration-Development Regime, Rina Agarwala seeks to understand how international migration is affecting sending countries and migrants themselves. Specifically, she examines the case of India, the world's largest emigrant exporter and the world's largest remittance receiver. Rather than seeing emigration as simply a neoliberal disaster or a panacea for globalization, this book shows how the Indian state has long used and controlled its poor and elite emigrants differently to further Indian development, and how Indian emigrants have differentially reacted to state practices over time. These findings help Agarwala expose what is truly novel about India's contemporary emigration practices, which have deepened class inequalities within India more than ever before.

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About the Author

Rina Agarwala is Associate Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. Agarwala is the award-winning author of Informal Labor, Formal Politics and Dignified Discontent in India (2013) and coeditor of Whatever Happened to Class? Reflections from South Asia (2016).

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0197586392
ISBN 13 
9780197586396
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
284