How Mobile Is India?

Vaid, Divya

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“…While these studies provide detailed narratives of youth aspirations in neo-liberal India, what they miss are large scale generalizable results that can point towards trends in youth aspirations for Muslims in India. Exceptions to this is the CSDS Youth Survey, CSDS, 2017) and Vaid's (2018) work on social mobility among different birth cohorts in India, but both do not focus on Muslims. My thesis addresses this gap.…”

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“…Limited opportunities for employment, especially for youth, is documented in research in India (Jeffrey et al, 2008;Lukose, 2009;Jeffrey, 2010;Kumar, 2016;CSDS, 2017). Additionally, based on large data sets, social mobility theorists highlight the limited relative social mobility in India, indicating low openness (movement from one class to a higher class) and low equality of opportunities (Vaid, 2018). Why are aspirations high when opportunity structures are lower?…”

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“…The research highlighted above is conducted using qualitative methods. Exceptions are Vaid (2018) and the CSDS Youth Survey (2017) but the focus of both are not Muslims. I address this gap by focusing on Muslim youth and both men and women (as well as all other gender identities, if any).…”

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Understanding aspirations among Muslim youth in India through Sequential mixed-methods design

Salman

2023

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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This article is a note on the research methods employed during the author’s doctoral research on the topic of aspirations and social mobility in north-India. Looking into the question of employment based aspirations of youth from the minority Muslim community in Delhi, the article employs a mixed-methods approach. The research relies on an older qualitative work by the author in a segregated area in Delhi, on the same themes, to inform the questions of a quantitative study, based on the survey method. The results of the survey are enriched by adding depth and nuance through a follow up qualitative round, employing the life-history method. This article uses the concept ‘frustrated freedom’ developed in the context of Mozambique and Guatemala to analyse the results obtained from the mixed- methods design. The article argues that while aspirations and claims for upward mobility (or agency) of Muslim youth are high, despite consistent socio-economic and political marginalization of the community in India, their ability to achieve these aspirations remains low. This is primarily due to the limited opportunity structures available for them, particularly for the youth living in segregated spaces in Delhi.

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Understanding aspirations among Muslim youth in India through Sequential mixed-methods design

Salman

2023

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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“…For example, why place a particular occupation in one class and not another (since occupation is difficult to code hierarchically unlike income, for instance)? Further, conflating measures that comprise household-level information (income and assets) with individual-level information (occupation) seems conceptually and empirically problematic, especially since household resources are seldom equally distributed within the family (Vaid, 2018). How would we then discuss women's political participation in this context?…”

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“…A possible reason for fewer studies on class in India is its secondary position to caste in the academic discussion and sometimes a conflation with it (Vaid, 2018). Another reason could be issues around the measurement of class.…”

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Mapping Class and Electoral Participation in India from 1996 to 2019

Vaid

2023

Studies in Indian Politics

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This article studies the relation between class and electoral participation. While the relation between political participation and many demographic variables such as caste, gender, age and location has been well researched in India, the same is not the case for the relation between class and electoral participation. Multiple measures of class (income, asset-wealth, occupation and education) are explored and conceptualized in this article, following which these measures of class are operationalized using the National Election Study datasets covering a twenty-three-year period (1996–2019). Each of these measures is used to trace the relation of class with two outcomes of electoral participation (turnout and party vote share) over time. Disaggregation by gender, locality and caste is provided. Finally, regression analysis to study the impact of these variables on turnout and vote share reveals the complexity of class. We find a complex picture of turnout and party choice with variation across different class measures. More significantly, variations in results raise questions about the usefulness of existing class indices. Further, we find that the type of measure being used affects different outcomes differently. For turnout, income and wealth seem to be better predictors, and for party vote share, subjective class is a better fit, whereas asset-wealth displays opposite patterns to income and subjective class in some instances.

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Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi

Salman

2024

Sociology Compass

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This paper delves into the employment aspirations and struggles for upward social mobility of middle‐class Muslim female youth in Delhi, located in segregated and non‐segregated areas. The paper contends that women respondents navigate constraints such that their class, gender and religious background have an ambivalent role in the production of aspirations but a more definitive one in their realisation. This argument is anchored in the three key themes addressed in the paper. For women from middle and lower sections of the middle‐class the presence of high aspirations does not translate into gainful employment, leading to the problem of fraying hope and ‘frustrated freedom’. They are engaged in prolonged waiting experiencing what Ghassan Hage would call ‘stuckedness’. The upper stratum placed strategically in the Bourdieusian field, can leverage their economic and cultural capital to offset uncertainties around employment and marriage. The third section navigates religious, gender and class‐based constraints by participating in self‐employment activities in a segregated neighbourhood in Delhi. For these women, the segregated neighbourhood has a dual role as an enabler and a barrier to their aspirations.

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How Mobile Is India?

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Understanding aspirations among Muslim youth in India through Sequential mixed-methods design

Understanding aspirations among Muslim youth in India through Sequential mixed-methods design

Mapping Class and Electoral Participation in India from 1996 to 2019

Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi

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