The Marginal Nation: Transborder Migration from Bangladesh to West Bengal

by Ranabir Samaddar

Overview

The Marginal Nation analyses the realities of transborder migration in the South Asia region going beyond the domains of economics and demography. It provides an in-depth look into various dimensions of migration across the India-Bangladesh border that challenges fixed definitions of borders, nations and identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032902531
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2025
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.

Samaddar’s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.

His recent political writings The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) and The Nation Form (2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The World of the Edges
Legality, Illegality and Reasons of State
Those Accounts
Continuities, Discontinuities
A Hossain Mia of Today?
Caste and Other Affinal Ties
Cartographic Representations and Anxieties
Naturalization, Valorization
Proletarianization, Lumpenization and Their Metaphors
Agrarian Impasse and the Making of an Immigrant Niche
A Village in Malda
Shefali
The Numbers Game
References
Index