Indian Diaspora

Author : Radha Sarma Hegde,Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317373568

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Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora by Radha Sarma Hegde,Ajaya Kumar Sahoo Pdf

The geographical diversity of the Indian diaspora has been shaped against the backdrop of the historical forces of colonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization. In each of these global moments, the demand for Indian workers has created the multiple global pathways of the Indian diasporas. The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora introduces readers to the contexts and histories that constitute the Indian diaspora. It brings together scholars from different parts of the globe, representing various disciplines, and covers extensive spatial and temporal terrain. Contributors draw from a variety of archives and intellectual perspectives in order to map the narratives of the Indian diaspora. The topics covered range from the history of diasporic communities, activism, identity, gender, politics, labour, policy, violence, performance, literature and branding. The handbook analyses a wide array of issues and debates and is organised in six parts: • Histories and trajectories • Diaspora and infrastructures • Cultural dynamics • Representation and identity • Politics of belonging • Networked subjectivities and transnationalism. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the diverse social, cultural and economic contexts that frame diasporic practices, this key reference work will reinvigorate discussions about the Indian diaspora, its global presence and trajectories. It will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students interested in studying South Asia in general and the Indian diaspora in particular.

Author : Sarah E. Lamb
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253003607

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Aging and the Indian Diaspora by Sarah E. Lamb Pdf

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.

Author : William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317967705

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Transnational Migrations by William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal Pdf

This book studies Indian diaspora, currenlty 20 million across the world, from various perspectives. It looks at the 'transnational' nature of the middle class worker. Other aspects include: post 9/11 challenges; ethnicity in USA; cultural identity versus national identity; gender issues amongst the diaspora communities. It argues that Indian middle classes have the unique advantages of skills, mobility, cultural rootedness and ethics of hard-work.

Author : Neha Vora
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822353935

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Impossible Citizens by Neha Vora Pdf

Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians—even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate—disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential—yet impossible—citizens of Dubai.

Author : Gijsbert Oonk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789053560358

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Global Indian Diasporas by Gijsbert Oonk Pdf

Global Indian Diasporas discusses the relationship between South Asian emigrants and their homeland, the reproduction of Indian culture abroad, and the role of the Indian state in reconnecting emigrants to India. Focusing on the limits of the diaspora concept, rather than its possibilities, this volume presents new historical and anthropological research on South Asian emigrants worldwide. From a comparative perspective, examples of South Asian emigrants in Suriname, Mauritius, East Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom are deployed in order to show that in each of these regions there are South Asian emigrants who do not fit into the Indian diaspora concept—raising questions about the effectiveness of the diaspora as an academic and sociological index, and presenting new and controversial insights in diaspora issues.

Author : N. Jayaram,Yogesh Atal
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761932186

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The Indian Diaspora by N. Jayaram,Yogesh Atal Pdf

N. Jayaram provides a well-presented overview of the patterns of emigration from India, highlighting the key disciplinary perspectives and strategic approaches. The study of Indian diaspora has emerged as a rich and variegated area of multidisciplinary research interest. This volume brings together nine seminal articles by well-known scholars which deal with the empirical reality of Indian diaspora and the theoretical and methodological issues raised by it. Between them they cover a variety of important aspects such as asocial adjustment, family change, religion, language, ethnicity and culture.

Author : Movindri Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317478966

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Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora by Movindri Reddy Pdf

With the elevation of Islam and Muslim transnational networks in international affairs, from the rise of Al Qaeda to the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, the study of Diasporas and transnational identities has become more relevant. Using case studies from Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad and South Africa, this book explores the diaspora identities and impact of social movements on politics and nationalism among indentured Indian diaspora. It analyses the way in which diasporas are defined by themselves and others, and the types of social movements they participate in, showing how these are critical indicators of the threat they are perceived to pose. The book examines the notions of national and transnational identity, and how they are determined by the placement of Diasporas in the transnational locality. It argues that the transnationality intrinsic to diaspora identities mark them as others in the nation-state, and simultaneously separates them from the perceived motherland, thus displacing them from both states and situating them in a transnational locality. It is from this placement that social movements among Diasporas gain salience. As outsiders and insiders, they are well placed to offer a formidable challenge to the host state, but these challenges are limited by their hybrid identities and perceived divided loyalties. Providing an in-depth analysis of Indian Diasporas, the book will be of interest to those studying South Asian Studies, Migration and Diaspora Studies.

Author : Brinsley Samaroo,Primnath Gooptar,Kumar Mahabir,J. Vijay Maharaj,Radica Mahase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 9390729394

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Global Indian Diaspora by Brinsley Samaroo,Primnath Gooptar,Kumar Mahabir,J. Vijay Maharaj,Radica Mahase Pdf

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000081343

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Shifting Transnational Bonding in Indian Diaspora by Ruben Gowricharn Pdf

This volume examines Indian diasporic communities in various countries including the United Kingdom, Trinidad, Portugal, Netherlands, and Fiji, among others, and presents new perspectives on the shifting nature of Indian transnationalism. The book: Discusses how migrant communities reinforce the diaspora and retain a group identity, while at the same time maintaining a bond with their homelands; Highlights new tendencies in the configuration of Indian transnationalism, especially cultural entanglements with the host countries and the differentiation of homelands; Studies forces affecting bonding among these communities such as global and local encounters, glocalisation, as well as economic, political, and cultural changes within the Indian state and the wider Indian diaspora. Featuring a diverse collection of essays rooted in robust fieldwork, this volume will be of great importance for students and researchers of diaspora studies, globalization and transnational migration, cultural studies, minority studies, sociology, political studies, international relations, and South Asian studies.

Author : Brij V. Lal,Peter Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067656473

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The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora by Brij V. Lal,Peter Reeves Pdf

The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora is the first comprehensive survey of Indian communities around the world. Over 30 contextual features show the initiatives taken by these communities and the contributions they have made both internationally and to their host societies, in areas as diverse as literature, cuisine, popular culture, sports and political life. The greater part of the book consists of 44 country/region profiles covering all parts of the world. Written by over 60 scholars from across the globe, most of whom are from the diaspora, the encyclopedia provides insights into the experiences of a people about whom much is often assumed but little is actually known. The recent expansion of the Indian diaspora, now some 20-million strong and growing, is a social transformation of global significance. Many members of the diaspora have reached the highest levels of global commerce and trade, international public service and diplomacy, the professionals and academia. In addition, the creative literature from and about the diaspora holds a distinctive and distinguished place in the world's literary imagination.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087904074

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Indian Diaspora by Anonim Pdf

In historic and ethnographic accounts of Indians living in diaspora, the elderly seem to receive much less attention than the new generation and its progress, prosperity and success. Using critical pedagogy approach, this book attempts to close that gap by focusing on the voices of the Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, and Gujarati diasporic Indians elderly, living in five countries.

Author : Anand Mulloo
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 8120831977

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Voices of the Indian Diaspora by Anand Mulloo Pdf

About the Book: Spread over a wide canvas, but focused entirely on the Indian diaspora, Mulloo attempts a diasporic perspective by using the inter disciplinary tools of history, economics, politics and sociology to narrate the story of overseas Indians.

Author : Dr. Madhu Tyagi
Publisher : Horizon Books ( A Division of Ignited Minds Edutech P Ltd)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789386369376

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THEORY OF INDIAN DIASPORA: DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL MIGRATION by Dr. Madhu Tyagi Pdf

In recent years, the term ‘diaspora’ has been more frequently used to characterise peoples existing away from their homelands. Khachig To¨- lo¨lyan, editor of the journal Diaspora, asserts that ‘the term that once described Jewish, Greek, and Armenian dispersion now shares meanings with a larger semantic domain that includes words like immigrant, expatriate, refugee, guest-worker, exile community, overseas community, [and] ethnic community’. Generally speaking, then, this mosaic of Indian identities abroad is presented as the mirror of India itself. India is diverse, and so too are its migrants. It is acknowledged that Indian migrants abroad tend to reproduce their own religions, family patterns, and cultures as much as possible. One is the prefix ‘Indian’. And the other is the term ‘dia-spora’. The implication of the first is that there is a single India with its people, who are somehow united under one flag. This is far from obvious. India has been described as a ‘nation and its fragments’ or an ‘invented nation.

Author : Jagat K. Motwani,Mahin Gosine,Jyoti Barot-Motwani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015037294835

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Global Indian Diaspora by Jagat K. Motwani,Mahin Gosine,Jyoti Barot-Motwani Pdf

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000412574

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New Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora by Ruben Gowricharn Pdf

This book critically examines new perspectives on the transformations in the Indian diaspora. It studies the changing perspectives on the historical background of the diaspora and analyses fresh and emerging views in response to new configurations in diaspora relations. The volume highlights the transformation of the old Indian diaspora into a new ensemble in which economic, ideological and cultural forces predominate and interact closely. It looks at various themes including Indian indentured emigration to sugar colonies, comparisons between labour migration from India and China, the Girmitiya diaspora, the Indian diaspora in Africa and the rise of racial nationalism, India’s soft power in the Gulf region, and the repurposing of the ‘Hindutva’ idea of India for Western societies as undertaken by diaspora communities. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of diaspora studies, migration studies, political studies, international relations, globalisation, political sociology, sociology and South Asia studies.