Calcutta's labour migrants

Encounters with modernity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3864488
AutoresArjan De Haan (U.K. Department for International Development (DFID), British High Commission, B28, Tara Crescent, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 016, India, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen37
Número1-2
Páginas189-215
Fecha de publicación2003-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaContributions to Indian Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0069-9659 • E-ISSN: 0069-9667
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/006996670303700109
OpenAlexW2103328018
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas16

This article, drawing on fieldwork in Calcutta in the early 1990s, focuses on the variety of ways in which migrants'encounters with modernity have been structured and perceived. It takes 'modernity' as referring to a set of conditions relating to industrial work and living in the colonial and postcolonial periods. Rather than criticising the notion of modernity, it unpacks it and tries to show how different groups of migrants may have differentially perceived their move from countryside to city. It describes the relative continuity between rural and urban work, illustrated in a continuity of livelihood strat egies straddling rural and urban areas. It then goes on to describe how the experiences of labour migrants differed according to-and were structured by-gender, generation, regional, religious and caste backgrounds and identities

Agriculture · Caste · Colonialism · Geography · Livelihood · Modernity · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Studies · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora