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Migration and Agency in a Globalizing WorldWindow to a South-South World: Ordinary Gentrification and African Migrants in Delhi

Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World: Window to a South-South World: Ordinary... [Indian and African economic ties have expanded tremendously in the last two decades. This has generated ideas of new global geopolitical realignments that are typically understood through a south-south collaborative lens. Our chapter reads these shifts by placing African migrants in a Delhi neighbourhood, aiming to understand the interactions between the hosts and migrants as a window into south-south futures. It argues that locals’ deeply held prejudices relating to Africans articulate with dynamics of urban change to produce precarity for the migrants. The chapter also shows that while the strategies adopted by the latter seek to minimize confrontations, there remains a gap in communication and meaningful interactions that would make these spaces livable for them in the long term.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Migration and Agency in a Globalizing WorldWindow to a South-South World: Ordinary Gentrification and African Migrants in Delhi

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Cornelissen, Scarlett; Mine, Yoichi
Negi, Rohit; Taraporevala, Persis
Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World — Jan 11, 2018
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-137-60204-6
Pages
209 –230
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-60205-3_10
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Abstract

[Indian and African economic ties have expanded tremendously in the last two decades. This has generated ideas of new global geopolitical realignments that are typically understood through a south-south collaborative lens. Our chapter reads these shifts by placing African migrants in a Delhi neighbourhood, aiming to understand the interactions between the hosts and migrants as a window into south-south futures. It argues that locals’ deeply held prejudices relating to Africans articulate with dynamics of urban change to produce precarity for the migrants. The chapter also shows that while the strategies adopted by the latter seek to minimize confrontations, there remains a gap in communication and meaningful interactions that would make these spaces livable for them in the long term.]

Published: Jan 11, 2018

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