Kapur, Ratna

Makeshift migrants and law: gender, belonging and postcolonial anxieties/ Ratna Kapur - London : Routledge, 2010. - 239p. ; 23cm.

Front Cover; Makeshift Migrants and Law; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Making of the Migrant; 3. Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law; 4. Sexual Restraints: The Construction of Female Sexual Subjectivities in Anti-Trafficking Discourse; 5. The Citizen and the Migrant Subject: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion; 6. The Fear Factor: Muslims, the Gujarat Riots, and the Purge from Within; 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects; Bibliography; About the Author; Index.

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Feminism -- India.
Internal migrants -- India.
Marginality, Social -- India.

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