Author meets Critics: An interdisciplinary discussion of sociologist Rina Agarwala’s (JHU) The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration

Please join the University of Maryland’s Center for Global Migration Studies for this hybrid event: 

Author meets Critics: An interdisciplinary discussion of sociologist Rina Agarwala’s (JHU) The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration (Oxford 2022).

Featuring commentary by the historians Mireya Loza (Georgetown), Mae Ngai (Columbia), and Mircea Raianu (UMD). Interdisciplinary feminist scholar, Sayan Bhattacharya (UMD), will chair.

This panel examines the emergence of India as the world’s largest exporter of emigrant workers and recipient of remittances over the past two centuries. Agarwala’s conceptualization of Migration-Development Regimes explicates priorities and practices of labor export from the perspectives of both the colonial and national governments of India, significantly enriching the robust scholarship regarding White settler societies’ exclusion of Asians and temporary worker systems based in Mexico, the Philippines, and the Caribbean.

4:00 – 5:30 pm, Wednesday, Oct. 16
2110 TLF or over Zoom 

Please contact globalmigration[at]umd.edu for online registration information. Links will be circulated a few days prior to the event. 

More information at https://history.umd.edu/research/centers/cgms/events.