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Former prof of Jawaharlal Nehru University R. K. Jain connected Sunday addressed the contented of migration, tracing its trajectory from a nationalist position to a broader planetary context.
Speaking astatine the inaugural league of the 50th All India Sociological Conference connected the taxable “Mobilities and Inequalities: Shifting Contexts; Changing Paradigms”, hosted astatine SRM University-A.P. successful Amaravati, Prof. Jain highlighted the analyzable intersection of mobility and inequality astatine the planetary level. He underscored the request to analyse these dynamics done the lens of South Asian diasporic migration. While referring to antithetic forms of labour migration, helium laid peculiar accent connected the mid-twentieth-century Indian diaspora, noting that it was shaped little by economical marginalisation and much by political, taste and intelligence factors.
Prof. Jain further pointed retired that the H-1B visa remains a important modern illustration illustrating the interplay of race, people and taste narratives wrong the modern diaspora. These complexities, helium said, underline the continuing relevance of migration successful knowing societal inequality successful the present-day world.
Dean of the Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University-A.P., Vishnupad, stressed the value of the league theme, observing that the enactment of societal and technological forces is reshaping sociological knowing and demands changeless adaptation.
Vice-Chancellor Ch. Satish Kumar said that socialisation was progressively transforming into e-socialisation, redefining idiosyncratic individuality and reducing the value of home spaces. He noted that older ethical values were being rapidly replaced by those of Generation Z and expressed anticipation that the gathering of sociologists and anthropologists would assistance onslaught a equilibrium with emerging perspectives.
Three publications, including a peculiar contented of the Sociological Bulletin, were released connected the occasion, and Dr. Achala Gupta of the University of Southampton was conferred the M. N. Srinivas Memorial Award. The programme featured parallel probe committee sessions, a plenary league and a memorial league successful honour of R. K. Mukherjee.
The inaugural time saw the information of respective eminent scholars from sociology and anthropology, including Maitrayee Chaudari, president of the Indian Sociological Society; Swetha Prasad, its secretary; Sujata Patel, retired prof of sociology astatine the University of Hyderabad; Satish Deshpande, prof of sociology astatine the University of Delhi; Irudaya Rajan, president of the International Institute of Migration and Development and impermanent module astatine SRM University-AP; and Anand Kumar, retired prof astatine Jawaharlal Nehru University, among others.
