Negi, R. and Taraporevala, Persis (2018) Window to a south-south world: ordinary gentrification and African migrants in Delhi. In: Cornelissen, S. and Mine, Y. (eds.) Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World Afro-Asian Encounters. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 209-230. ISBN 9781137602046.
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.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Series ISSN: 2662-2483 |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School |
| Depositing User: | Persis Taraporevala |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2024 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 15:30 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/54093 |
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