Geographies at the margins: borders in South Asia–an introduction

Cons, Jason; Sanyal, Romola

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2013.06.001

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“…In both cases state-based and local political struggles have begun from the idea of 'ethnically exclusive homelands', which has shaped political activism and subjectivities (Baruah, 2003;Van Beek, 2000). As borderlands of India, these regions have been seen as central to nation-building (Aggarwal and Bhan, 2009;Cons and Sanyal, 2013) or as not quite of the nation (Gellner, 2013) and have also been fraught with internal conflict (Baruah, 2005;Bhaumik, 2009). South Asia is a particularly fruitful region for the study of "the politics of marginality and the insecurities of borders" (Cons and Sanyal, 2013, page 10).…”

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“…Here we place together students who come from different backgrounds but who are categorized in similar ways by people they encounter in India's urban centers. We hope to begin a conversation about the ways that these students are part o f a displacement o f marginal border spaces to the center, the relationality between the production o f borders and centers (Cons and Sanyal, 2013), and the resulting political and cultural processes, which have a diasporic tint.…”

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The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India

Smith

Gergan

2015

Environ Plan D

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Economic change has driven parents across the Indian Himalayan Region to send their children to major Indian cities for higher education. Himalayan students' urban experience and understanding of the nation is profoundly shaped by the movement between the Himalayan context and the foreign experience of Indian city life. We draw on interviews with students to discuss their experiences in the sometimes liberating and sometimes hostile cities of India. In their perceived cultural and racialized difference, we argue, Himalayan students form a diaspora within their own nation, and we suggest that attention to their micropractices of belonging and movement between home and city is critical to understanding India as a nation-state. Here, we suggest that education-driven migration to urban centers results in challenging spaces of encounter, and that minority students cope with these encounters both by forging diasporic ties with those from their homeland and other marginalized Himalayan students, and by building a cosmopolitan sensibility that reaches beyond India's borders. Our research is based primarily on a set of twenty interviews conducted in 2011 in Delhi, Sikkim, and Leh, Ladakh, but is informed by our ongoing work on the topic, and on our previous and continuing research on family politics in Ladakh and in Sikkim on youth politics and development.

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The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India

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2015

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“…A longstanding contention of border studies has been that the margins are productive locations from which to think nation, state, and territory (see Cons & Sanyal 2013). This is so not just because margins are privileged locations for engaging the contradictions of state-making, but also because margins are often intimately bound up in conceptualizations and imaginations of nation and state.…”

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Impasse and Opportunity: Reframing Postcolonial Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border

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2014

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“…We consider it essential to make periodic reviews of the effects of the border policies. Because border policy is a very complex multi-objective balancing process, national scholars have put forward their own views [9][10][11]. It is often thought that border policies do not achieve the stated targets, especially regarding the management of migrants, commodities, goods, services and information within the border areas.…”

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Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Border Policies in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan, China

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Zhou

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:With the process of globalization, many political geographers and research institutions have begun to focus on borders and border areas. Faced with the current debate on the border policies, this paper reviews the former research relating to border studies and provides an evaluation of China's border policies. The literatures on border effects reveal that national boundaries have a significant impact on the economic, social and cultural relations of both border regions. Because of these effects, each country has to adjust its border policies in different periods. In this paper, a perspective is provided for evaluating the effectiveness of China's border policy based on the Kaldor-Hicks analysis method. We investigated the border policies in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan province of China from 1949 to 2012, and evaluated the effectiveness of the border policy using the Kaldor-Hicks method. The conclusions include: first, the Kaldor-Hicks method can be seen as effective method to evaluate the effectiveness of China's border policies. Second, based on the Kaldor-Hicks method, we observe the overall effects of the adjustments made to the border policies in Dehong Prefecture were positive. However, sometimes the border trade policy is good for the country as a whole, but not necessarily for Dehong Prefecture. For the sake of the whole country, adjustments in border trade policy need to be compensated by financial transfer payments. In addition, the combined effects of the cross-border marriages policy are not immediately obvious. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2014, 6 5285

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Geographies at the margins: borders in South Asia–an introduction

Cited by 76 publications

References 48 publications

The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India

The Diaspora Within: Himalayan Youth, Education-Driven Migration, and Future Aspirations in India

Impasse and Opportunity: Reframing Postcolonial Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Border Policies in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan, China

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