Print version: Halstead, Narmala. Competing power : landscapes of migration, violence and the state. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019 268 pages ISBN 9781785339929
Includes bibliographical references and index
Amidst illegality and violence : flight and the state -- Illegality and big ones : disengaging structural violence -- Local others : residents, bandits, migrants -- Local lives, global selves : new local imaginaries and ’go and come’ -- Re-presencing the local -- Co-occupying public power : challenges, abuse and structural violence -- Materializing a strange-familiar local : individuals, migrants’ experiences and strategies of governance -- In and out of the local : blame-sharing, faulty persons and the state.