urban precarity
Involuntary Adaptive Migration: Structural Displacement, Ritual-Economy Transition, and the Reconfiguration of Livelihoods Among a Nomadic Community in Central India
Central India, distress migration, informal economy, involuntary migration, Jajmani system, Jogi community, nomadic community, nomadism, social exclusion, urban precarityBy: SOUMYAJIT SINGHA ROY, RAJKISHORE MAHATO – This study examines the migration patterns of the Jogi community – a nomadic, unregistered group found in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh – using a multi-sited ethnography conducted between 2021 and 2022 among 1,211 individuals in eleven urban, peri-urban, and rural settlements. The research demonstrates that Jogi migration is…