‘Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman,’ written by Ramona Vijeyarasa, contains a systemic analysis of human trafficking and the conventional notions about the nature and characteristics of its victims, which are dominated by narratives of the victims being extremely poor, illiterate, and female. The author is a human rights lawyer and academician who delves deeply […]
The book ‘Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia‘ is written by Sunil Amrith and comprises five chapters. Historian Sunil Amrith has demonstrated various migration patterns across South and Southeast Asia. He attempted to articulate how migration has shaped history and the narratives and how human mobility has played a significant role in allowing ideas of
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Reece Jones (2016), Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, New York: Verso, ISBN-13:978-1-78478-474-4, 222 pages. Forced migration has been a growing concern for governments and scholars across the globe for the last few years. As of the end of 2020, the UNHCR accounts for more than 34 million forcibly displaced people between refugees
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Book Review: Passage of Fortune?: Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab by Aswini Kumar Nanda, Jacques Veron, and S. Iruadaya Rajan, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2021; pp xxi + 335. The non-availability of timely and rigorous data sources for the analysis of dynamism of international migration and construction of
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Jason DeParle’s A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves navigates modern migration through the riveting multi-generational saga of the Portaganas, a family of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whose decades-long journey unfolded across three continents. DeParle first met the family matriarch, Tita Portagana Comodas, in 1987 as an American reporter whose original intent was to write
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Deepak Unnikrishnan is the author of the fiction novel- ‘Temporary People’, published in 2017 by Restless Books. The author compiled twenty-eight short stories and divided them in three parts titled Limbs; Tongue. Flesh and Veed. The author was born to migrant labourers in the Gulf. In 2016, Deepak Unnikrishnan won the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing,
Caroline S. Hau’s Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture reflects on the long-established yet evolving roles of Filipino elite in nation-building and world-making. In the introductory chapter, Hau opens with the key thesis that the Filipino imagined community can no longer be imagined in terms of “a strict separation between inside and outside, between foreign
The Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration is part of a book series aimed at understanding the future of policies on migration and their linkages with development issues. This particular anthology synthesizes the contributions of migration experts from Asia, Europe, and North America who attended a conference in April 2013 on recent empirical case
In the book Human Trafficking and Security in Southern Africa: The South African and Mozambican Experience, Richard Obinna Iroanya deals with the widespread issue of human trafficking. The author considers the problem of human trafficking as a threat to national security as well as a threat to the security of human rights. In addition to
In the book Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights, Jasmin Lilian Diab as an editor, attempts to knit the expertise of academicians across disciplines with the motive to cover wide-ranging aspects related to migration. The editor is a professional in Migration Studies, currently positioned as Assistant Professor at the Lebanese American University. She has
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