Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border

Malini Sur

doi:10.4324/9781003708643-7

Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border

Malini Sur

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

My contribution argues for plural engagements with undocumented border crossings. I posit that trans-border mobilities, especially in regions where borders divide similar societies, are located at the intersection of sovereign violence and social legitimacies. This paper explores such intersections by following bodies in motion, and bodies that are selectively intercepted and deported at the heavily patrolled and militarised India-Bangladesh border. I advance that borders have lethal yet fluid dispositions. The aggressive policing of borders coexists with local and trans-border legitimacies that accommodate undocumented border crossings.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia
Subtitle of host publication	Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia
Editors	Barak Kalir, Malini Sur
Place of Publication	UK
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Chapter	6
Pages	127-150
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040792995
ISBN (Print)	9789089644084, 9789048515875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003708643-7 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003708643-7
Publication status	Published - 2025
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

border crossings
violence
gender
India
Bangladesh

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Sur, M. (2025). Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border. In B. Kalir, & M. Sur (Eds.), Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia (pp. 127-150). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003708643-7, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003708643-7

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Bamboo Baskets and Barricades: Gendered Landscapes at the India-Bangladesh border. / Sur, Malini.
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia. ed. / Barak Kalir; Malini Sur. UK: Taylor & Francis, 2025. p. 127-150.

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