Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State: Gujarat since 2002 - Hardcover

Lokhande, Sanjeevini Badigar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107065445 ISBN 13: 9781107065444

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

When violence occurs in democracies it is often characterized as an aberration. The state that saw human rights violations and failure of law and order in Gujarat in 2002 emerged, even if by its own admission, as a model for good governance. Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State, through an account of displaced Muslims, challenges this notion. Through the unlikely yet probing lens of displacement, it offers fresh insight into communal violence and is an important resource for the emerging domain of forced migration and the changing nature of the state in a globalized world.

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Book Description

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002. Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande addresses the migration-displacement debate by chronicling what happened and seeks to locate the rights claims of the displaced in the dominant debates on citizenship.

About the Author

Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande teaches at the Department of Civics and Politics at the University of Mumbai. Following her doctoral research at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, she authored a chapter and was involved with research for a collaboration between the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the London School of Economics and Political Science for their volume on Governance and the Governed. Her research interests are forced migration studies, governance and the state.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107065445
• ISBN 13: 9781107065444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224