{"product_id":"jungle-passports-malini-sur-9780812224788","title":"Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim \"frontier peasants,\" \"savage mountaineers,\" and Christian \"ethnic minorities,\" suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In \u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India's construction of one of the world's longest and most highly militarized border fences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJungle Passports\u003c\/i\u003e recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape the life-worlds of deportees, refugees, farmers, smugglers, migrants, bureaucrats, lawyers, clergy, and border troops, she reveals how reciprocity and kinship and the enforcement of state violence, illegality, and border infrastructures shape the margins of life and death. Combining years of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her thoughtful and evocative book is a poignant testament to the force of life in our era of closed borders, insularity, and \"illegal migration.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Malini Sur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812224787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812224788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Malini Sur","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044349341951,"sku":"9780812224788","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_125f05f4-cb14-4133-8e83-b3a14d433865.jpg?v=1684972341","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jungle-passports-malini-sur-9780812224788","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}