%0 Journal Article
%T Migration: A Moral Protest
%A Gopal Guru
%J Social Change
%@ 0976-3538
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0049085719844108
%X This essay seeks to make an argument which is different from the research work that is available on migration. It tries to understand the connection between the creation of moral community that is premised on the mediation between migration and physical space. Migration from one place to another is intrinsically moral as it is forced. It happens through the disruption of life plans of working population. Forced migration, the essay argues, is the results of an inability of the state to provide people adequate and decent jobs at the natal place. Migration as a protest, thus provides the moral critique of state. The fall out of migration, however, leads to two opposite social phenomenon. It provides condition for the formation of moral community through solidarity and at the same times it also produces an unencumbered individualism through mobility
%K Morality
%K mobility
%K negative responsibility
%K untouchability
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0049085719844108