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"Women, Gender Equality and the State approaches the question of state policy towards women with a view to understand the manner in which the issue of equality between men and women has been addressed by the Indian state. The major argument is that the manner in which women have been defined by the state policies since independence is not only crucial to understanding the nature of these policies but also to the way it has constructed gender divisions, ...
Transnational migration has become a distinctive aspect of globalisation, manifesting the uneven and hierarchical relationships that inform it. The processes of uneven development set in motion with colonisation continue to unfold with the integration of post-colonial societies into the world economy as dependent and subordinate partners. The nature, volume and direction of migratory flows have closely corresponded with these patterns of uneven development. This ...