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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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,
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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“Migration at Work: Aspirations, Imaginaries & Structures of Mobility” is a volume published in 2020 which offers a multidisciplinary approach towards migration. This book comprises empirical research in various fields providing valuable scholarship and evidence on current processes of migration and mobility. A wide range of geographical coverage can be seen in the book chapters.
Our Moon Has Blood Clots is a memoir about the lost home in Kashmir by Rahul Pandita, published in 2013. The author narrates the plight of Kashmiri Pandit’s migration to different parts of India in the 1990s. The book is divided into five parts which describe the different phases of the history of Kashmir, but
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In their book Exploiting People for Profit: Trafficking in Human Beings, Simon Massey and Glynn Rankin provides a contemporary definition of human trafficking. Both authors are quite well-versed in the field of human trafficking. Massey, previously a consultant for the EU and UNDP, and now a senior lecturer at Coventry University, is profusely published in
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