Book Details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

• Author: Nasreen Chowdhory • Paula Banerjee (Eds)

• Language: English

• Edition: 2023

• ISBN: 9789811932250

• Pages: 384

• Cover: Hardcover

About the Book

This comprehensive volume brings together critical voices from across South Asia to explore the intersection of gender, identity, and forced displacement. Edited by Nasreen Chowdhory and Paula Banerjee, two eminent scholars in political science and migration studies, the book highlights the lived experiences and political realities of displaced women — a group that remains underrepresented in dominant migration narratives.

The book is structured into four key parts: Methodologies and Knowledge Production, Labour and the Migrant Body, Identity and Borderlands, and Gender, Conflict and Migration. These sections offer a wide lens into the methodological and epistemological challenges of researching forced migration, especially through a feminist and post-colonial perspective.

Essays examine a variety of themes — from feminist critiques of migration research, reproductive labor in surrogacy markets, and the plight of trafficked women, to case studies on young Rohingya refugees, the legacy of Partition, and women’s roles in armed insurgencies. A recurring emphasis lies on challenging the traditional ‘state-centric’ approach to forced migration and instead centering the voices and realities of those most affected.

Scholars and researchers in the fields of migration studies, gender studies, political science, human rights, and South Asian studies will find this book invaluable. Its focus on epistemic justice, methodological pluralism, and the ethics of representation make it a timely contribution in understanding the multi-layered and often invisible experiences of gendered displacement in South Asia.