Migration, Place and Culture

Principal researcher

Ajay Bailey

Period

2009- Ongoing

Collaboration

Centre Development Studies , Trivandrumand RAPHID  

Key questions of the project 

• How do migrants negotiate their identities in the place-making processes?
• What parts of culture are represented in the place-making processes?

Papers in Progress

• Bailey , A. ‘This our area and that is theirs’: the spatiality of migrant masculinity in Goa, India.
• Bailey A. and Meijering L. Multiple place meanings of a temple complex in a migrant settlement in Goa, India

 Linked student projects

• Eveline Hage: Claiming space: Street Vending in Mumbai
• Sanne Visser: Social networks and well-being among Ghanaian migrants (supervision with Dr. Louise Meijering) 
• Inge de Vries: Making a home: material culture of international students in Groningen.