Fictions of Freedom

Migration, Modern Slavery and Bureaucracy in India

By: Pankhuri Agarwal

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Hardcover | 10 September 2026

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226 Pages

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Fictions of Freedom emerges from the fact of anti-trafficking interventions having led to newer forms of oppressions and entanglements of bureaucracy. Situating the lives of sex workers and daily-wage earning labourers through a multi-sited ethnography in India, this book opens up an examination of the rescue industry, modern slavery, and how the lived reality of the workers is crowded with sociopolitical unfairness, individual and state-sponsored violence, informal debt, gender and caste-based hierarchies, and limited livelihood options. It aims to offer a critical lens into the practices, modalities, and contestations through which freedom is lived and asserted in a postcolonial nation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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