TY - BOOK ID - 124590700 TI - From family to police force : security and belonging on a South Asian border PY - 2022 SN - 150175954X 1501759566 1501759531 1501759558 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law enforcement KW - Police KW - Social aspects KW - Kachchh (India) KW - Social conditions. KW - Viranganas Bhuj, Bengali women migrants, Sodha migration, 1971 India-Pakistan war, consanguineous marriage, Citizenship Amendment Act. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:124590700 AB - 'From Family to Police Force' illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air wing of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies that depute officers to the region. These groups are the major actors in the field of security and policing. Farhana Ibrahim offers a bird's-eye view of these groups, drawing on long-standing anthropological engagement with the region. ER -