Incapacity, indebtedness and illegality : everyday experiences of poverty and barriers to better life and mobility for a migrant community in Delhi, India

This research offers an ethnographic account of what can be learned about poverty and mobility from Bhatu people’s biographical narratives and everyday experiences. Historically nomadic and labelled a ‘criminal caste’ and ‘backward class’, this migrant community from village Rajasthan now lives in a...

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Main Author: Hay, Frances Lily
Published: University of East Anglia 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.614476