| Description |
1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Makeshift Migrants and Law; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Making of the Migrant; 3. Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law; 4. Sexual Restraints: The Construction of Female Sexual Subjectivities in Anti-Trafficking Discourse; 5. The Citizen and the Migrant Subject: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion; 6. The Fear Factor: Muslims, the Gujarat Riots, and the Purge from Within; 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects; Bibliography; About the Author; Index |
| Summary |
This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant subject. It critiques postcolonial perspectives on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural and familial norms on which law is based and on the colonial encounter |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Feminism -- India
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Internal migrants -- India
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Marginality, Social -- India
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Sex and law -- India
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Sex role -- India
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Sociological jurisprudence -- India
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Women immigrants -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India
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Feminism.
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Internal migrants.
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Marginality, Social.
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Sex and law.
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Sex role.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Women immigrants -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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India.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203814000 |
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0203814002 |
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