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Contents Preface. Migration modernity and social transformation in South Asia an introduction/Katy Gardner and Filippo Osella. 1. A nation living in different places notes on the impossible work of purification in postcolonial Sri Lanka/Jonathan Spencer. 2. A case of capital rich under development the paradoxical consequences of successful transnational entrepreneurship from Mirpur/Roger Ballard. 3. Save there eat here migrants households and community identity among Pakhtuns in Northern Pakistan/Francis Watkins. 4. Migration and Islamic reform in a port town of Western India/Edward Simpson. 5. Migration and the commoditisation of ritual sacrifice spectacle and contestations in Kerala India/Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella. 6. Veiled constructions conflict migration and modernity in Eastern Sri Lanka/C.Y. Thangarajah. 7. Spirits of the womb migration reproductive choice and healing in Rajasthan/Maya Unnithan Kumar. 8. Calcutta's labour migrants encounters with modernity/Arjan De Haan. 9. Nehru's dream and the village waiting room long distance labour migrants to a central Indian steel town/Jonathan P. Parry. 10. Expectations and rewards of modernity commitment and mobility among rural migrants in Tirupur Tamil Nadu/Geert De Neve. 11. Seasonal migration employer worker interactions and shifting ethnic identities in contemporary West Bengal/Ben Rogaly Daniel Coppard Kumar Rana Abdur Rafique Amrita Sengupta and Jhuma Biswas. 12. Identities in motion social exchange networks and rural urban migration in Bangladesh/Randall Kuhn. 13. Circular migration and rural cosmopolitanism in India/Vinay Gidwani and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Index. Migration has emerged as one of the key issues of the 21 century. While human movement has become a major political issue and research projects devoted to its study have proliferated within contemporary social anthropology and sociology there remains a resounding silence on the effects migration has on local areas or individual lives within South Asia. In particular what migration means in terms of cultural or social change in specific places has been little examined. Addressing these lacunae this volume discusses migration within rural areas and between villages towns and cities. Based on detailed ethnographic studies from Pakistan India Bangladesh and Sri Lanka it focuses on actual practices juxtaposing internal with international migration. Maintaining that migration in all the cases presented involves far more than simple economic strategies and issues of material well being the contributors highlight three major aspects of migration that existing studies have largely neglected Migration entails projects of transformation either by individuals or groups or even states in which new identities are forged and existing orders challenged or changed. The hallmark of migration is its ambiguity. Even as migrants struggle to transform themselves they are often torn between competing ideals. Similarly the new ways of being experiences and ideologies represented by the places which migrants move to and between often invoke highly ambivalent responses. Migration always involves relations of power whether between states cities and rural areas between migrants and non migrants or between individuals within a migrant's family. Underscoring all of these relationships is the global political economy and the weight of inequality as well as opportunity which this involves. Overall this volume suggests that while migration occurs in the context of power relations between people and localities migrants at the same time continuously interpret negotiate and subvert these constraints within the unfolding of specific migratory practices the outcome of which cannot be predicted. An important contribution to theoretical debates on migration this book will interest students and scholars of migration and development studies geography demography social anthropology and sociology.