Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State - Gujarat Since 2002

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Glossary of terms and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Demography and population movements in Gujarat; 2. Vatani to Visthapit: violence and displacement in 2002; 3. Relief instead of rights: the governance of communal violence; 4. Reconstruction and rights through self-help; 5. Violence and good governance; Bibliography.

About the author

Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande teaches at the Department of Civics and Politics at the University of Mumbai. Following her doctoral research at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, she authored a chapter and was involved with research for a collaboration between the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the London School of Economics and Political Science for their volume on Governance and the Governed. Her research interests are forced migration studies, governance and the state.

Summary

This book examines the notion of citizenship for Muslims who were displaced after the Godhra violence in Gujarat in 2002. Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande addresses the migration-displacement debate by chronicling what happened and seeks to locate the rights claims of the displaced in the dominant debates on citizenship.

Product details

• Authors: Sanjeevini Badigar, Sanjeevini Badigar Lokhande, Sanjeevini Badigar (University of Mumbai Lokhande, Lokhande Sanjeevini Badigar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107065444
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06544-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, 21st Century, India, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Violence in society, Demonstrations & protest movements, Violence and abuse in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples