Remaining Nameless: Names, Hiding, and Dislocation Among Delhi’s Runaways

In India, child runaways inhabiting urban space mobilize a complex set of naming strategies—both for themselves as individuals and for the category of person to which they see themselves belonging—as a component of strategies of evasion, dissimulation, and self-protection. In this widely-replicated...

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Main Author: Jonah Steinberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2015-10-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4061