Migration, development and social change in the Himalayas an ethnographic village study / Madleina Daehnhardt.

SeriesRoutledge studies in development, mobilities and migration
Contents Tejam village features introduced -- The history of migration from Tejam -- Reasons for out-migration from Tejam -- Out-migration from Tejam : multidimensional impacts -- Non-migration in Tejam -- Return migration to Tejam -- In-migration into Tejam : a repeat story.
Abstract "This book teases out the reasons for, and the socioeconomic impacts of, different types of migration on contemporary rural households and individuals. The author creatively depicts the dynamic microcosm of one village in the North Indian Kumaun Himalayas, near the border with Chinese Tibet, giving voice to the life stories of a range of migrants. Through this ethnography, migration is revealed as a fundamental part of the multifaceted 21st century changes which the village is experiencing. From elderly women, to unemployed men, young farm women and local children, the book demonstrates how village life is continually constituted socially and economically by overlapping migration patterns -- including out-migration, return-migration, in-migration and even non-migration. Extending the argument, the author demonstrates that the village microcosm is linked to many other villages which are microcosms in their own right as well as in relation to the main village across a spatial hierarchy. The theoretical implications of the study are teased out to inform our understanding of rural-urban migration trends and impacts more generally, and as such the book will be of interest to researchers of the South Asian region, but also of internal migration in the global context"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Daehnhardt, Madleina. Migration, development and social change in the Himalayas London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9780367150969
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2019980384
ISBN9780429054983 (ebook)
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