ABSTRACT
Migration is about people moving from one politically well-defined area to another. In this process, one generally leaves behind a familiar world to explore the unexplored and unseen. Several factors like culture, ethnic boundary and structural restriction may, however, constrain people’s mobility. At the same time, mobility may also bring enhanced opportunities for improved living in the new world through extra-local work more feasibly available to migrants, especially for the marginalised. They can also transfer their experiences of new ways of being into local contexts as consumers and for labour deployment (Gidwani and Sivaramakrishnan 2003).
