Indian Transnationalism Online

Author : Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Johannes G. de Kruijf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317117407

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Indian Transnationalism Online by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Johannes G. de Kruijf Pdf

Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This book investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within, the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India, it engages with theoretical and methodological debates concerning the shaping and transformation of migrant culture in emerging sites of sociality, and explores issues such as religion, citizenship, nationalism, region and caste as they relate to Indian identity in global, transnational contexts. With detailed empirical case studies showing both how members of the Indian diaspora connect with one other and ’life at home’ and how institutions in India maintain such links, Indian Transnationalism Online sheds light on the ways in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of contemporary socio-cultural change. As such it will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and studies of cultural studies working in the areas of migration, transnationalism and ethnic studies.

Author : Dr Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Dr Johannes G de Kruijf
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472419156

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Indian Transnationalism Online by Dr Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Dr Johannes G de Kruijf Pdf

Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This book investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within, the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India, it engages with theoretical and methodological debates concerning the shaping and transformation of migrant culture in emerging sites of sociality, and explores issues such as religion, citizenship, nationalism, region and caste as they relate to Indian identity in global, transnational contexts. With detailed empirical case studies showing both how members of the Indian diaspora connect with one other and ‘life at home’ and how institutions in India maintain such links, Indian Transnationalism Online sheds light on the ways in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of contemporary socio-cultural change. As such it will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and studies of cultural studies working in the areas of migration, transnationalism and ethnic studies.

Author : Ajaya K. Sahoo,Bandana Purkayastha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351612906

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Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism by Ajaya K. Sahoo,Bandana Purkayastha Pdf

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected. The concept of crossing borders emerges as an important theme, along with the interweaving of life in geographic and web spaces. The authors draw from a variety of archives and intellectual perspectives in order to map the narratives of Indian transnationalism and analyse the interplay of culture and structures within transnational contexts. The topics covered range from the history of transnational networks, activism, identity, gender, politics, labour, policy, performance, literature and more. This collection presents a wide array of issues and debates which will reinvigorate discussions about Indian transnationalism. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students interested in studying South Asia in general and the Indian diaspora in particular.

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317967699

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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 : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367514303

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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 : Jaspal Kaur Singh,Rajendra Chetty
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : East Indian diaspora in literature
ISBN : 1433106310

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Indian Writers by Jaspal Kaur Singh,Rajendra Chetty Pdf

Indian Writers attempt to locate diasporic voices in the interstitial spaces of countless ideologies. The anthology provides a critical examination of dislocated diasporic subjects - those who have adjusted to the dislocation well, those who have chosen the hybrid spaces for empowerment, those who are dragged forcefully to various territories, and yet those who gleefully inhabit trans-local spaces. A wide range of voices raise these critical questions: How do we read these voices? How are the voices received in various locations? Are these voices considered Indian? Do they represent Indianness, or some hybridized version of it? What is an authentic cultural identity? What, ultimately, is Indianness, or for that matter, any hard-won national or ethnic identity? Additionally, as more female writers are being read, both in the global south and in the north, the reception of these texts, particularly in an era of globalization, and in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack in the United States, raises questions on how the «other», the subaltern, is represented and read. Some writers use an assimilationist approach to the cultures of the West to such a degree that they find Indian culture monolithically oppressive, while others continue to romanticize Indianness, yet others eroticize and ethnicize the east for western consumption. The authors of the essays in this anthology examine contemporary debates in postcolonial and transnational literary criticism in an attempt to understand the often complex and hybrid narratives of the diasporic Indian subject.

Author : Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Michiel Baas,Thomas Faist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 8131605159

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Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Michiel Baas,Thomas Faist Pdf

The present study of transnationalism was born out of observations that migrants no longer simply cross borders to live elsewhere, but regularly turn this 'crossing borders' into a lifestyle of its own. This book not only presents an important overview of transnationalism in India, but also acts as an important source of inspiration to think beyond the concept and the way it has been studied so far. The book will be useful to students and researchers working in the areas of Indian diaspora and transnationalism.

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,6 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.

Author : Ravindra K. Jain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136704130

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Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation by Ravindra K. Jain Pdf

A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate. In this anthropological narrative both nation and trans-nation are ‘moving targets’; their positionality shifts and changes according to the geo-political location of the analyst and the frame of comparison brought to bear on the objects/subjects of study. In Jain’s case the locus happens to be India but the discussion in this book does not foreclose perspectives from ‘other’ nations. Indeed as his own examples from countries of the Indian Ocean zone, the Asia Pacific region and the Caribbean amply demonstrate the methodology of ethno-cultural relativism built in these diasporic comparisons is the surest guarantee for tracing the juxtaposed dialectic of nation and trans-nation from whichever existential location one begins. The rootedness of this particular discourse in India provides coherence in the nature of a case-study of globalization from a prominent diaspora node of our times. At the same time it unravels dimensions of Indian social institutions viewed from the vantage point of diaspora. The book, therefore, is an invitation to further multi-disciplinary and multi-sited collaboration in the exploration of globalization, diaspora, nationalism and patriotism as well as transnationalism from diverse perspectives.

Author : Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Laxmi Narayan Kadekar
Publisher : Serials Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 8183871607

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Indian Diaspora by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo,Laxmi Narayan Kadekar Pdf

The Indian Diaspora Is Currently Estimated To Be More Than Twenty Million By Covering Practically All Over The World. The Present Book Broadly Focuses On The Historical Context Of Indian Emigration, Diaspora Formation And Retention Of Cultural Identities Of Indians In Different Parts Of The Diasporas. Some Of The Papers Also Focus On The Writings Of Indian Diasporic Scholars. A Selected Bibliography On Indian Diaspora Has Been Added Further. The Book Will Be Useful Not Only To Sociologists But Also To Scholars Working In The Fields Of Anthropology, Political Science, Geography, History, Asian Studies, Literary, Cultural, Ethnic And Migration Studies

Author : Uma Sarmistha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811385421

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Transnational Immigrants by Uma Sarmistha Pdf

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living in the United States. It describes the complexities and challenges of adapting to a new culture while clinging to tradition. Asian-Indians represent a significant part of the professional and ‘high-tech’ workforce in the United States, and the majority are temporary workers, working on contractual jobs (H1-B and L1 work visa category). Further, it is not unusual for Indian immigrant workers to marry and have children while working in the U.S. Gradually, they learn to negotiate the U.S. cultural terrain in both their place of work and at home in the U.S. As such there is the potential that they will become transnational, developing new identities and engaging in cultural and social practices from two different nations: India and the U.S. Against this background, the book describes the nature and extent of transnational practices adopted by high-tech Indian workers employed in the United States on temporary work visas. The study reveals that the temporary stay of these professionals and their families in the U.S. necessitates day-to-day balancing of two cultures in terms of food, clothing, recreation, and daily activities, creating a transnational lifestyle for these young professionals. Transnational activities at the workplace, which are forced by the work culture of the MNCs that employ them, can be considered as ‘transnationalism from above.’ Simultaneously, being bi-lingual at home, cooking and eating Indian and Western food, socializing with Indian and American friends outside work, and all the cultural activities they perform on a day-to-day basis, indicates ‘transnationalism from below’. The book is of interest to researchers and academics working on issues relating to culture, social change, migration and development.

Author : Bhikhu Parekh,Gurharpal Singh,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134490523

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Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora by Bhikhu Parekh,Gurharpal Singh,Steven Vertovec Pdf

The Indian diaspora is one of the largest and most significant in the world today with between nine and twelve million people of Indian origin living outside South Asia. With successive waves of migration over the last two hundred years to almost every continent, it has assumed increasing self-consciousness and importance. Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and addresses the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the crucial relationship between culture and economy in the diaspora over time. This book will appeal to all those interested in transnational communities, migration, ethnicity and racial studies, and South Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : East Indian diaspora
ISBN : 8194556309

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Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ajaya K. Sahoo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000366860

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Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development by Ajaya K. Sahoo Pdf

This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development, and explores the role that immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland. Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary scholars from across the world, the handbook is divided into the following sections: • Development Potential of Asian Diasporas • Diaspora, Homeland, and Development • Gender, Generation, and Identities • Soft Power, Mobilization, and Development • Media, Culture, and Representations. Presenting cutting-edge research on several dimensions of diaspora and development, Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development provides a platform for further discussion in the fields of migration studies, diaspora studies, transnational studies, race relations, ethnic studies, gender studies, globalization, Asian studies, and research methods.