Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma
The author is an associate fellow at Institute for Human Development, Delhi. Her interests revolve around migration and urban transformation in contemporary India. Her doctoral work traces the different types of recruitment of migrant and local labour in Kerala that reflect political contests and settlements between trade unions, corporate construction companies and recruitment agencies. She has recently started working on surveillance practices and technologies of policing.
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Resisting Aadhaar, Resisting Islamophobia: A critical look at debates and litigation around Aadhaar
As the Supreme Court of India determines the contours of the right to privacy and who in Indian territory has it, Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma critiques many of the assumptions around the opposition to Aadhar. This critique is grounded in the differences of how surveillance and privacy are known and experienced by those who are vulnerable for varied reasons, but especially those who are migrants or...
