1. Introduction: Locating Subjectivities and Belonging in Migration

Sadan and Pushpendra

Part I: Labouring to Freedom

2. The Aspiration of a 'Civilised', 'Human' and 'Dignified' Life: An Enquiry into Sociability, Sociality and Wellbeing of Migrants in an Indian Coalfield

Dhiraj Kumar Nite

3. Migration and the Making of a Village

Pushpendra

4. 'Freedom Talk of Ploughmen': Bondage and Seasonal Migration in East Central India

Sohini Sengupta

Part II: Engendering Migration

5. Gender and Migration: A Contemporary View

Samita Sen

6. Home Away from Home? Belonging and Dislocation among Migrant Domestic Workers

Anindita Chatterjee

7. Migration, Gender, and Religion: A Study of Malabar Migration and Gendered Christian Identity in Girideepam (1961-1971)

Sharon Rose

Part III: Migration, Memory and Longing

8. Making Sense of Migration: Reflections on the Contexts and Contents of Bhojpuri Women's Folksongs

Asha Singh

9. The Idea of Home in a World of Circulation: Steam, Women, and Migration through Bhojpuri Folksongs

Nitin Sinha

10. Jaun-Yeun: Simultaneous Engagement of Konkani Migrants

Amita Bhide and Kalyani Vartak

11. Migration and Music: Incarnations of Biraha

Praveen Kumar Jha

Part IV: Negotiating the City Space

12. The Purusharthi Refugee: Sindhi Migrants in Jaipur's Walled City

Garima Dhabhai

13. 'Once a Migrant, Always a Migrant'? Negotiating Home and Belongingness in the City of Kolkata

Swati Mantri

14. Figure of the Migrant as Other: Experiences, Memory and the Politics of Belonging

Sadan

Index