Can migrants be indigenous?: affirmative action, space, and belonging in the Andaman Islands

In India, the contested category of Scheduled Tribes (STs) is enacted in order to socially uplift certain indigenous communities. This article concentrates on analysing the intersection between modes of indigenous self-definition, political assertion, and localized conceptualizations of space and be...

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1. Verfasser: Zehmisch, Philipp (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 05 October 2022
In: Modern Asian studies
Year: 2022, Jahrgang: 56, Heft: 5, Pages: 1489-1514
ISSN:1469-8099
DOI:10.1017/S0026749X2100038X
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