Stories of the Indian immigrant communities in Germany : why move? / Amrita Datta.
Datta, Amrita, author.
2023
DD78.E28
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Title Stories of the Indian immigrant communities in Germany : why move? / Amrita Datta.
Author Datta, Amrita, author.
ISBN 9783031401473 (electronic bk.)
3031401476 (electronic bk.)
3031401468
9783031401466
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40147-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 106 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-40147-3 doi
Call Number DD78.E28
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9/0691209540943
Summary By focusing on the question Why leave? Amrita Datta tells touching human stories as part of an important global trend: the reconfiguring mobility amidst rapid political changes and an unprecedented pandemic. Nuanced and powerful, the book shows that migration is never about jobs or status only, it is also about everyday dignity and liveability, for instance the ability of making friends and moving around in a city safely, which are in turn conditioned by large political forces. A very timely and significant contribution to migration studies and global anthropology. -------- Biao Xiang, Director, Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany This book tells the stories of Indian immigrants in Germany, including Blue Card holders and students categorized as highly skilled migrants, as well as others choosing shadow migration pathways in order to leave the country. It investigates their motivations for leaving India and choosing Germany as an immigration destination. Grappling with the stories of tech workers fleeing the pandemic, activists fleeing the witch hunting of the government, women escaping gender(ed) violence and queer people seeking freedom, this book uses reflexivity as an analytical tool. Investigation of their transcultural practices also reveals a general intent among Indians to create homes in Germany, despite several challenges to such efforts, including structural and everyday symbolic racism. Amrita Datta is a migration scholar currently based at the Department of Sociology, University of Siegen, Germany, as a Marie Sklowdowska-Curie Fellow. Earlier, she earned a doctoral degree in Sociology from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. .
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Available in Other Form STORIES OF THE INDIAN IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN GERMANY.
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1. Introduction
2. Pandemic And Politics The Two Ps In A Pod
3. Refuge From The Bovine
4. Gendering The Immigrants
5. In Pursuit Of Freedom: Queer Girl Moves To Berlin!
6. Immigrants As Homemakerspandemic, Time And Certitude
7. Biocitizenship Of Immigrants
8. Imagining Tomorrow.

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