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Cards and carriers: migration, identification and surveillance in Kerala, South India

Prasad-Aleyamma, Mythri·2018·Contemporary South Asia
DOI 10.1080/09584935.2017.1407293
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Identity cards and surveillance practices form an important part of migrant experience and politics. Drawing on fieldwork in construction sites and factory premises in Ernakulam district and a market frequented by migrants in Perumbavoor, a small city near Kochi in Kerala, this paper argues that ID-based surveillance of migrant workers occurs through a complex spatial web of state repression, local power structures and fissures within the classes of workers in Kerala. Migrant workers from North and Northeastern India, and unionized Malayali workers in construction sites and factories in Kerala, battle for and against these cards. Migrant workers resist not necessarily class power that inheres in capital, but the state and surveillance practices.

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  • Reasons for these delays included Post Office staffing challenges, incomplete addresses and wrong pin codes from enrollees, and enrolling agencies failing to upload enrollment data in time.

    “Reasons for these delays ranged from staffing challenges at the Post Office [27] and incomplete addresses and wrong pin codes provided by enrollees [64], to the failure of enrolling agencies to upload enrollment data in time [58].”

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Authors
Prasad-Aleyamma, M.
Affiliations
Institute for Human Development (IN)
Corresponding author
Prasad-Aleyamma, Mythri
ORCID
Prasad-Aleyamma, Mythri
Venue
Contemporary South Asia
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-11-30
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
191-205
ISSN
  • 0958-4935 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-364X
DOI
10.1080/09584935.2017.1407293
OpenAlex
W2775158321
Cited by
28
References
58
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 1
FWCI
21.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Contemporary South Asia (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › South Asian Studies and Conflicts
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
Keywords
migrant workers, identification cards, surveillance, state repression, Kerala, construction site, factories, trade unions, class struggle, resistance, Ernakulam district

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