The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan were accompanied by one of the most massive migration flows in history (Bharadway, Khwaja, Mian 2008). Many people have lost their families and homes. The partition has spatially divided hundreds of thousands of families between both countries and affected millions of households. The hostile relationship between India and Pakistan has disabled many spatially separated families from maintaining close contact among family relatives for decades. Both India and Pakistan systematically produce state-controlled and state-oriented "official histories" to create a committed national identity among their citizens. Therefore, the long-term consequences of the partition of India and Pakistan are significantly visible today and still need to be further examined (Talbot 2009). This conference presentation brings up the topic of the post-partition modification of the family structure. It focuses on how, from a long-term perspective, the three-generational members of a spatially, border-divided family maintain the emotional bond and how they interpret the partition event concerning their ancestors' migration experience.
Moreover, the author asks how the migration experience and the division of the family had affected the concept of home and the understanding of a family. The author presents results from the qualitative-oriented research conducted in 2019 in India and Pakistan among the family members living in a Pakistani province Sindh and the Indian state, Andhra Pradesh. To cover the links between the micro and macro scale of analysis, she uses the concepts of the feminist-oriented approach and critical geopolitics.
Mots clés : Partition of India|Migration|Divided families|Life-history
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