Four Decades of Village Studies and Surveys in Bihar*

Rodgers, Gerry; Mishra, Sunil Kumar; Sharma, Alakh N.

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199461868.003.0006

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“…These villages studied ear lier-in 1981-1983, 1998-2000, and 2009-2011-were selected in 1981 from six regions of Bihar that were distinguished based on a cluster analysis. For selection of households in earlier surveys, stratified random sampling was undertaken and households were stratified by class (described below) and village (see Rodgers et al 2016;Prasad et al 19881988 for details). For the 2016 survey, an additional sampling frame was adopted for better representation of rural households.…”

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Circular Migration and Precarity: Perspectives from Rural Bihar

Datta

2020

Ind. J. Labour Econ.

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Circular Migration and Precarity: Perspectives from Rural Bihar

Datta

2020

Ind. J. Labour Econ.

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“…6 Government of India (2017b) estimates 140 million seasonal migrants, but the basis of this number is unclear. 7 Breman (1985;1994;1996;2007;, Datta (2016), Deshingkar & Farrington (2009), de Haan (2002, Mosse et al (2002), Mosse et al (2005), Picherit (2009Picherit ( , 2018a, Rodgers et al (2016), Rodgers (2016), Rogaly (2003Rogaly ( , 2009, Rogaly & Rafique (2003), Rogaly & Coppard (2003), Rogaly & Thieme (2012), Shah (2006). 8 See Government of India (2017a, pp.…”

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“…(2002), Mosse et al (2005), Picherit (2009, 2018a), Rodgers et al. (2016), Rodgers (2016), Rogaly (2003, 2009), Rogaly & Rafique (2003), Rogaly & Coppard (2003), Rogaly & Thieme (2012), Shah (2006).…”

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Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India

Shah

Lerche

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper focuses on the processes of migrant labour exploitation which are crucial for capitalist growth and the inequalities they generate. Ethnographic research conducted in different sites across India shows how patterns of seasonal labour migration are driven by class relations marked by hierarchies of identity (caste and tribe) and the spatial geopolitics of internal colonialism (region)differences that are mobilised for accumulation. Labour migration scholarship has mainly explored sites of production. We extend recent social reproduction theory (SRT) and an older literature on labour migration and reproduction to argue that the intimate relationship between production and social reproduction is crucial to the exploitation of migrant labour and that this means we have to place centre-stage the analysis of invisible economies of care which take place across spatiotemporally divided households, both in the place of migration and in the home regions of migrants. Furthermore, we develop recent work on SRT and migration to argue that an analysis of kinship (gender over generations, not just gender) is crucial to these invisible economies of care. This analysis is important in showing the machinations of capitalist growth and for political alternatives.

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“…This lack of power is traced to the control of land and, consequently, economic opportunities by the Rajas, a group of principal landholding jatis in the region. Rodgers et al (2016), while noting the decline of semifeudal relations due to migration in Bihar, point out that the end of semifeudal relations did not have a noticeably adverse impact at the top of the agrarian hierarchy. A study of crop holiday by landowners in coastal Andhra shows that these owners refused to sow their lands not only to register their protest against nonremunerative prices, as often reported by newspapers but also as a way to discipline labour and tenants (Laxminarayana et al, 2011).…”

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