Abstract

Marginalization based on geographic-isolation has serious repercussions on construction of identities. Identities in geographically isolated borderlands in Jammu and Kashmir are doubly-marginalized due to lack of development and the impact of ongoing conflict and dispute between the nation-states of India and Pakistan. Dard-Shins; one such tribal borderland community of village Kilshey in Gurez, Kashmir have been living as ‘non-registered non-rehabilitated refugees’. This research while tracing their displacement from across the border during the time of partition in 1947 to the present day refugee-camps and resettlement colonies, studies the concept of belonging and place-attachment vis-à-vis transition and mobility among the refugees here. The displacement led migration across hostile borders has made both the idea of home unsettled and identity uncertain for them. Caught up between these two is the idea of marginality that further informs their bonds of nationalism with both India and Pakistan. Survival as a borderland community in India has not been without the geographical-isolation and under-development that has further led to psychological-distancing and social-disability. Invoking their ancestral links to uss paar/the other side of the border they migrated from becomes pertinent while imagining a life outside decades of marginalization as has been experienced on iss paar/this side in India. This intersection of marginality, identity and displacement thus creates an interesting sphere where aspirations of moving out of the category ‘refugee’ are stronger than having lived as refugees for ages in the hope of just and fair rehabilitation and resettlement policies in India.

摘要

基于地理隔离的边缘化对身份的建构具有严重的影响。由于缺乏发展以及印度和巴基斯坦民族国家之间持续的冲突和争端的影响，查谟和克什米尔地理上孤立的边境地区的身份被双重边缘化。达德小腿；一个这样的基尔希村部落边境社区在古雷兹，克什米尔一直以“未登记的未康复难民”的身份生活。这项研究在追踪他们在 1947 年分治期间从边境迁移到现在的难民营和重新安置殖民地的过程中，研究了归属和地方依恋与这里难民之间的过渡和流动的概念。流离失所导致的跨越敌对边界的移民使他们对家园的想法和身份都不确定。夹在这两者之间的是边缘性的想法这进一步表明了他们与印度和巴基斯坦的民族主义纽带。印度作为一个边境社区的生存并非没有地理隔离和欠发达，这进一步导致了心理疏远和社会残疾。援引他们与uss paar /他们迁移的边界另一边的祖先联系变得相关，同时想象在iss paar /印度这一边经历的数十年边缘化之外的生活。因此，这种边缘化、身份认同和流离失所的交集创造了一个有趣的领域，在这个领域中，摆脱“难民”这一类别的愿望比长期作为难民生活的愿望更强烈，以期在印度实现公正和公平的康复和重新安置政策。