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Drawing on primary and secondary evidence from India, the writers explore the cultural dynamics of migration to determine how circular migrants create spaces for cultural and political assertion within the context of regional modernities and to ascertain the role of cultural politics in the subjective experience and evaluation of circular migration. Highlighting the incompleteness of standard marginalist and Marxist accounts of labor circulation, they examine the linkages between culture, politics, space, and labor mobility and provide a way of thinking about these linkages by expanding upon poststructural critiques of development and postcolonial theories of migrant subjectivity.