-
Title
-
First Person: How my old economic migration textbook unwittingly predicted my future
-
Article Link
-
Subject
-
migration
-
diaspora identity
-
economic mobility
-
personal narrative
-
Description
-
In this reflective first-person essay published on Scroll.in on December 1, 2023, journalist Anahita Mukherji describes how a chapter on economic migration in an old college economics textbook unexpectedly foreshadowed her own path as an immigrant.
With characteristic insight and narrative wit, Mukherji explores how academic frameworks around migration, wages, opportunity differentials, push-pull factors, flatten the emotional, familial, and deeply personal dimensions of moving across borders. Through her story, she illustrates how immigrant journeys often blend rational economic choices with longing, serendipity, and the search for belonging.
This essay contributes to the broader narrative of South Asian diaspora experience, illuminating the tension between what migrants are taught migration “should” be and what it actually becomes in lived reality.
-
Creator
-
Anahita Mukherji
-
Date
-
December 1, 2023
-
Format
-
Digital text (online article)
-
Language
-
English
-
Coverage
-
Global South Asian diaspora; India; transnational migration contexts
-
Rights
-
© Scroll.in / © Anahita Mukherji. Used for educational and non-commercial display.
