Gender, Identity and Migration in India

The book focuses on the voices of displaced women and challenges methodological nationalism and the syndrome of seeing like the state in forced migration studies. It utilizes feminist epistemologies with a specific emphasis on post-coloniality to provide a powerful vantage point for understanding the experiences of displaced women.

Format: Hardback
Length: 365 pages
Publication date: 11 February 2022
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

The book delves into the captivating narratives of displaced women, who play a vital role in the intricate migration process. Through a profound exploration of the engendered displacement, it sheds light on the diverse processes, methodologies, and approaches employed by national and international human rights and humanitarian laws and principles, as well as the invaluable experiences of the affected communities and organizations. These contributions further strengthen the argument that an academic researcher's positionality, methods, and trajectories of critical knowledge production are intricately linked. In particular, feminist epistemologies, with a specific focus on post-coloniality, when combined with scholarship related to transnational migration studies, offer a remarkably powerful vantage point for challenging methodological nationalism and the tendency to perceive the state as an all-seeing entity in the field of forced migration studies.

The book explores the profound experiences of displaced women, who constitute a critical component of the migration journey. By unraveling the intricacies of engendered displacement, it draws attention to the diverse processes, methods, and approaches employed by national and international human rights and humanitarian laws and principles. It also sheds light on the invaluable experiences of the affected communities and organizations, highlighting their efforts towards peaceful coexistence. The contributions to this volume reinforce the argument that an academic researcher's positionality, methods, and trajectories of critical knowledge production are intricately linked. In particular, feminist epistemologies, with a specific emphasis on post-coloniality, when combined with scholarship related to transnational migration studies, offer a remarkably powerful vantage point for challenging methodological nationalism and the tendency to perceive the state as an all-seeing entity in the field of forced migration studies.

Weight: 626g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811655975
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022