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Migration and the invisible economies of care: Production, social reproduction and seasonal migrant labour in India
Author(s) -
Shah Alpa,
Lerche Jens
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/tran.12401
Subject(s) - reproduction , caste , social reproduction , kinship , scholarship , tribe , ethnography , colonialism , sociology , economic geography , production (economics) , care work , economy , work (physics) , geography , economics , political science , economic growth , ecology , social science , biology , anthropology , social capital , macroeconomics , archaeology , engineering , law , mechanical engineering
This paper shows how invisible economies of care spanning spatiotemporally divided households are crucial to exploitation of migrant labour at the bottom of labour hierarchies. The empirical material focuses on low‐caste and tribal people who seasonally migrate within India for low‐wage precarious work. At the centre of analysis is shown to be an intimate relationship between production and reproduction, the mobilisation of regional differences created by internal colonialism (alongside caste/tribe) in accumulation, and the significance of kinship over generations (alongside gender).