Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.89-105
Mohua Dutta
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger (2008), has over the years been widely studied from different perspectives, but its engagement with the theme of internal migration has remained unexplored. This paper seeks to address this gap in scholarship by portraying the migration of the protagonist Balram Halwai from the proverbial “darkness” of the villages to the “light” of the cities. It empathetically documents his resistance and resilience against caste and class discrimination in the village and the city. Adiga’s novel interjects into the larger theme of literary representation of internal migration and depicts the push and pull factors that lead to urbanisation in India. This paper will raise the question and attempt to answer whether rural to urban migration can overcome the socioeconomic hierarchies existing in the rural spaces or is an exercise in futility.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.34-45
K. K. Kumar, Subashni Lata Kumar
{"title":"Roots and Routes: Tracing the Trends of Indo-Fijian Fiction","authors":"K. K. Kumar, Subashni Lata Kumar","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.34-45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.34-45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130535499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.4-21
A. Gagiano
{"title":"Narrating African Migration: Perspectives and Chronotopes in Narrative Strategies","authors":"A. Gagiano","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.4-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.4-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124011927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.63-74
Syyada Faheem
{"title":"Silence as a Tool of Oppression and Voice as a Tool of Resistance as Portrayed in Select Autobiographies and Memoires by Migrant Women","authors":"Syyada Faheem","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.63-74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.63-74","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128544046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.46-62
Sujatha C. E.
{"title":"Migrants from Disparate Terrains: Entangled Identities in Wide Sargasso Sea","authors":"Sujatha C. E.","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.46-62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.46-62","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114255874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.22-33
M. N. Okolie, Chinasa B. Abonyi
{"title":"Head, Adichie and the Patterns of Migration Struggles","authors":"M. N. Okolie, Chinasa B. Abonyi","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.22-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.22-33","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121342453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.75-88
J. Bhattacharyya
Swedish crime fiction writer, Henning Mankell, introduces his police detective Kurt Wallander in the first novel of the Wallander series, Faceless Killers. This paper studies the issue of xenophobia in the Swedish context, and how it affects the protagonist of the novel, criminal detective Kurt Wallander, who, although maintains his apolitical worldview, laments the loss of the Swedish idyll. The first section, titled ‘Swedish Nationalism and the “Other”’, focuses on the aspect of the postcolonial “other” in Mankell’s Faceless Killers. The second section, “Xenophobia and a Scathing Criticism of the Right-Winged Nationalism”, expounds on how Mankell, through his criminal detective, Kurt Wallander, criticises hardcore and headstrong nationalism supported by the right-winged populace. The third section of the paper, ” Kurt Wallander, Xenophobia and loss of the Idyll” exposes how for Wallander, the political upheaval and the social chaos ultimately lead to the loss of the idyll that he has been associating with the Swedish countryside. The “Concluding Remarks” of the paper expound upon Wallander’s way of coping with the changing notion of the idyll.
{"title":"Loss of the Swedish Idyll and Xenophobia: Criminal Detective Kurt Wallander in Henning Mankell’s Faceless Killers","authors":"J. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.75-88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.75-88","url":null,"abstract":"Swedish crime fiction writer, Henning Mankell, introduces his police detective Kurt Wallander in the first novel of the Wallander series, Faceless Killers. This paper studies the issue of xenophobia in the Swedish context, and how it affects the protagonist of the novel, criminal detective Kurt Wallander, who, although maintains his apolitical worldview, laments the loss of the Swedish idyll. The first section, titled ‘Swedish Nationalism and the “Other”’, focuses on the aspect of the postcolonial “other” in Mankell’s Faceless Killers. The second section, “Xenophobia and a Scathing Criticism of the Right-Winged Nationalism”, expounds on how Mankell, through his criminal detective, Kurt Wallander, criticises hardcore and headstrong nationalism supported by the right-winged populace. The third section of the paper, ” Kurt Wallander, Xenophobia and loss of the Idyll” exposes how for Wallander, the political upheaval and the social chaos ultimately lead to the loss of the idyll that he has been associating with the Swedish countryside. The “Concluding Remarks” of the paper expound upon Wallander’s way of coping with the changing notion of the idyll.","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128343236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.106-109
A. Sinha
{"title":"Book Review. Lahiri, Himadri. 2021. Asia Travels: Pan-Asian Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literature/s in English","authors":"A. Sinha","doi":"10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.106-109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2022.4.2.106-109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132562204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.110-126
J. L. Diab
{"title":"Bridging the Gap between Social Protection and a Humanitarian Response: Lebanon’s Refugees amid Host Community Fatigue, COVID-19 and Good Practices","authors":"J. L. Diab","doi":"10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.110-126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.110-126","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123551060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.36-53
Ilyas Chattha
{"title":"Some Fruits of Freedom: Partition and the History of Evacuee Property in Pakistan","authors":"Ilyas Chattha","doi":"10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.36-53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36931/jma.2021.4.1.36-53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247619,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Migration Affairs","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125672702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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