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Digital Readings at Seagull #6: Migration and Labour

Fri, 15 May

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Digital Readings at Seagull #6: Migration and Labour
Digital Readings at Seagull #6: Migration and Labour

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15 May 2020, 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm

Online event

About the Event

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In this reading session we will look at stories of migration and labor. Economic need has been one of the primary factors which drive people to travel, uproot them from their homes, expose them to long, often perilous journeys across seas and oceans. In this lock-down, images of migrant laborers, risking long and physically hazardous journeys have flooded news outlets.

Histories of countries around the Bay of Bengal have been shaped by painful, often desperate stories of migration. But this migrant population also lends itself to the unique and fraught post-colonial identity of these nations. Issues of identity still remain unresolved decades after these countries decolonized and grappled with making their boundaries and fixing down notions of national identity. In this session, we will talk about this difficult history.

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The Seagull Foundation

for the Arts

For the past twenty seven years The Seagull Foundation for the Arts has been actively supporting, nurturing and disseminating creative and critical activity in the field of the arts in India, especially fine arts, theatre and cinema, out of a deep conviction and commitment to the belief that the arts are everybody’s responsibility and a social commitment.

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