| Description |
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Dispossession, placelessness, home and belonging : an outline of a research agenda / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Neoliberal development, port reform and displacement : the case of Kolkata and Haldia, West Bengal, India / Douglas Hill and Timothy J. Scrase -- Youth on the neoliberal margins : ethnography of tourism-led displacement in Kerala, South India / Belinda Green -- Neoliberal development and displacement : women's experiences of flight and settlement in South Asia / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase -- Aftermath of dams and displacement in India's Narmada River Valley : linking -- Compensation policies with experiences of resettlement / Pratyusha Basu -- Globalization and occupational displacement : Indian artisans in the global economy / Timothy J. Scrase -- The land issue on Banggi Island, Sabah, Malaysia : deagrarianisation and exclusion of the Bonggi / Fadzilah Majid Cooke -- Movement by coercion : the displacement of indigenous children in Australia / Suneeti Rekhari -- Margin, minorities, and a political economy of displacement : the Chittagong Hill tracts of Bangladesh / Bokhtiar Ahmed -- Home-making and regrounding : lives of Bangladeshi migrants on the Damodar Charlands of lower Bengal, India / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta -- Re-imagining "refugeehood" : reflections on Hmong identity(ies) in the diaspora / Roberta Julian -- Globalised cartographies of being : literature, refugees, and the Australian nation / Tony Simoes da Silva -- Dispossession, human security, and undocumented migration : narrative accounts of Afghani and Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers / Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Lynnaire Sheridan |
| Summary |
This book responds to the need to explore the multitude of interconnected factors causing displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various borders in the contemporary world that is characterised by extensive and rapid movements of people. It addresses this need by bringing together historical a |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Refugees -- Asia.
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Refugees -- Pacific Area.
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005907
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| Author |
Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira.
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Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2012027618 |
| ISBN |
1409453480 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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1409453499 (ebook) |
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9781409453482 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781409453499 (ebook) |
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