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<p>This book addresses the concept of migration with the aim of building theory as well as drawing from existing theories to understand South Asian realities. It highlights the lessexplored cultural dimensions of migration – music literature cinema and art – thereby extending migration research beyond the realms of security discourse both military and nonmilitary. The author explores how ideas migrate along with people and the extent to which the process of transformation and adaptation of these ideas is necessitated by social interactions in the adopted society. Since South Asia is culturally diverse most migrants need to adapt themselves to unfamiliar social milieus and this juxtaposition finds expression in rich and diverse cultural forms. Revised and updated this second edition includes a new chapter that explores three contemporary developments: the controversy over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 in India the unending ethnic conflict between the Meitei and the KukiZo communities in Manipur and the recent controversy over the continued presence of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The book will be indispensable to researchers and scholars of migration studies South Asia studies social anthropology and international relations. About the Author Partha S. Ghosh (b. 1947) is retired Professor of South Asian Studies at the School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University. Currently he is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences New Delhi. Formerly Ghosh was a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library an ICCR Chair Professor at Victoria University (New Zealand) Visiting Professor/ Humboldt Fellow at Heidelberg University and a Ford Scholar at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He had a long stint as Research Director at the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). He has authored several books the most recent being the IndiaSouth Asia Interface: Religion Politics and the Wider World (Manohar 2022).</p>
