A Global Town in Central Gujarat, India: Rural–Urban Connections and International Migration

Verstappen, Sanderien; Rutten, Mario

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“…Besides these metro cities/UAs, there are a large number of small cities and towns which by and large are stagnating owing to the lack of investment and job creation (Kundu, 2003). However, some of the current studies (Gupta, 2013: 172–174; Robinson, 2013: 73–74; Scrase et al, 2015; Verstappen and Rutten, 2015, etc.) challenge the aforesaid view and argue that because of the availability of cheaper land and labour, small cities and towns with locational advantages are attracting many local (and/or global) firms and offering employment opportunities, and thereby growing rapidly.…”

Section: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence At The Macromentioning

confidence: 69%

Urban Transition in West Bengal, India

Guin

2016

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Contemporary urbanization in India is in transition and this, along with the continuation of a ‘top heavy’ urban structure and gradual deindustrialization, is characterized by faster growth of informal employment, a declining trend of urban-ward migration of males, the slow down in the growth of cities and towns and the emergence of new urban centres. Given this immediate backdrop, this paper examines the contemporary processes and emerging forms of urban transition in West Bengal, with its longstanding history of ‘mono-centric’ urbanization. It reveals that urbanization in the state is no longer confined to a few pockets, as many new urban centres have emerged away from them and small towns are growing at relatively faster rates compared to the cities. But the underlying factors of this transition are not associated with the dispersal of economic activities and employment opportunities away from the metropolises. Furthermore, the study is sceptical about the significance of this emerging form of urbanization fuelled by the growth of small cities and towns which have a weak economic base, a crisis of urban governance and inadequate access to basic amenities.

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Section: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence At The Macromentioning

confidence: 69%

Urban Transition in West Bengal, India

Guin

2016

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…Other potential affordances of higher education are international migration on student visas, self-improvement, status and the improvement of one's desirability in the marriage market. Studies of the middle classes in other places in Gujarat describe strategies of upward mobility through education, (sub)urbanisation and reforms of 23 For a comparative analysis of what Anand means to Muslims and Hindus, and in international perspective, see Verstappen and Rutten (2015 morality (van Wessel 2001: 34-61), and for Muslims in India, it has been noted that participation in higher education can be a way to attain selfworth in contexts of marginalisation (Jeffrey, Jeffery and Jeffery 2004). The case of Anand illustrates these patterns described elsewhere.…”

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“…I have also conducted research among Sunni Vohras from central Gujarat in the UK (in 2012, with a follow-up visit in 2016), and earlier among Hindu youth from the same region in the UK. The transnational aspects of the research are discussed elsewhere (e.g., Verstappen 2017;Verstappen and Rutten 2015).…”

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“…Other potential affordances of higher education are international migration on student visas, self-improvement, status and the improvement of one's desirability in the marriage market. Studies of the middle classes in other places in Gujarat describe strategies of upward mobility through education, (sub)urbanisation and reforms of 23 For a comparative analysis of what Anand means to Muslims and Hindus, and in international perspective, see Verstappen and Rutten (2015). 24 See, for example, the booklet Fruits of Perseverance and Hard Work: The Establishment of Vallabh Vidyanagar, by Amrapali M. Merchant (1999), Sardar Patel University (title translated from Gujarati).…”

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Communal living

Verstappen

2017

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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India witnesses a proliferation of 'Muslim' and 'Hindu' residential areas, which reflect deepening segregation along religious lines. This article explores the production of such spaces through a case study of Anand in central Gujarat. It uses the lens of 'mobilities' to critically interrogate the 'Muslim ghetto', a notion that has come to figure prominently as a conceptual framework in discussions on residential segregation in contemporary India, and proposes to consider the residential spaces of Muslims instead as 'hubs' of urban and regional connectivity. Avoiding a false dichotomy between segregation-as-seclusion and cohabitation-as-connecting, the article demonstrates how new kinds of environments reflect and facilitate new sets of social relations, and generates a fresh perspective of a Muslim area as a hub of intersecting mobilities within a context of rural and urban transformation.

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“…Provincial towns are key sites of such region-making processes, due to their position as nodes connecting their rural hinterlands with other sites as well as their long-standing trans-regional or global connections (Parthasarathy, 2013;Scrase, Rutten, Ganguly-Scrase, & Brown, 2015). More recently, provincial landscapes have been altered by ongoing processes of urbanization, which are often intersected by transnational flows and diasporic aspirations (Verstappen & Rutten, 2015; also see contributions by Upadhya and Verstappen, this issue). While migrants share the transnational 'space of flows' (Appadurai, 1997) with other actors such as multinational corporations and multilateral development agencies, their significance in shaping regionalist politics cannot be discounted.…”

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Introduction: Reconsidering the Region in India

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Upadhya

2017

Journal of South Asian Development

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In this introduction to a special issue on 'Reconsidering the Region in India', we aim to develop a synthetic and theoretically nuanced account of the multifarious ways in which the idea of region has been imbricated in diverse spatial, political, cultural and socioeconomic configurations. We draw from various bodies of anthropological, geographic and historical literature to elaborate on three themes that we believe are central to understanding contemporary processes of region-making in India: trans-regional mobilities and connections; the actors who produce and perform regional imaginaries; and changing regional politics of development. This introductory essay, and the articles collected here, expand on this body of work by focusing on several understudied aspects of region-making in India: trans-regional and http://repository.uwc.ac.za

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A Global Town in Central Gujarat, India: Rural–Urban Connections and International Migration

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