Native Diasporas

Author : Gregory D. Smithers,Brooke N. Newman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803233638

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Native Diasporas by Gregory D. Smithers,Brooke N. Newman Pdf

The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples. Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways.

Author : Charles D. Thompson Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351928007

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Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations by Charles D. Thompson Jr. Pdf

Indigenous religions are now present not only in their places of origin but globally. They are significant parts of the pluralism and diversity of the contemporary world, especially when their performance enriches and/or challenges host populations. Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations engages with examples of communities with different experiences, expectations and evaluations of diaspora life. It contributes significantly to debates about indigenous cultures and religions, and to understandings of identity and alterity in late or post-modernity. This book promises to enrich understanding of indigenity, and of the globalized world in which indigenous people play diverse roles.

Author : Paul Burke
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333897

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An Australian Indigenous Diaspora by Paul Burke Pdf

Some indigenous people, while remaining attached to their traditional homelands, leave them to make a new life for themselves in white towns and cities, thus constituting an “indigenous diaspora”. This innovative book is the first ethnographic account of one such indigenous diaspora, the Warlpiri, whose traditional hunter-gatherer life has been transformed through their dispossession and involvement with ranchers, missionaries, and successive government projects of recognition. By following several Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, far from their home settlements, this book explores how they sustained their independent lives, and examines their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.

Author : Gijsbert Oonk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Kyra Landzelius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134501793

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Native on the Net by Kyra Landzelius Pdf

Exploring the influence of the Internet on the lives of indigenous and diasporic peoples, Kyra Landzelius leads a team of expert anthropologists and ethnographers who go on-site and on-line to explore how a diverse range of indigenous and transnational diasporic communities actually use the Internet. From the Taino Indians of the Caribbean, the U’wa of the Amazon rainforest, and the Tunomans and Assyrians of Iraq, to the Tingas and Zapatistas, Native on the Net is a lively and intriguing exploration of how new technologies have enabled these previously isolated peoples to reach new levels of communication and community: creating new communities online, confronting global corporations, or even challenging their own native traditions. Featuring case studies ranging from the Artic to the Australian outback, this book addresses important recurrent themes, such as the relationship between identity and place, community, traditional cultures and the nature of the ‘indigenous’. Native on the Net is a unique contribution to our knowledge of the impact of new global communication technologies on those who have traditionally been geographically, politically and economically marginalised.

Author : William Safran,Ajaya Sahoo,Brij V. Lal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Sushma Varma,Radhika Seshan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015061110139

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Fractured Identity by Sushma Varma,Radhika Seshan Pdf

Contributed papers presented at a two day workshop held at the University of Pune in February 2002; sponsored by the CSP.

Author : N. Jayaram,Yogesh Atal
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Graham Harvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : OCLC:1019702399

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Indigenous Diasporas and Dislocations by Graham Harvey Pdf

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Rattan Lal Hangloo
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789380607382

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Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean by Rattan Lal Hangloo Pdf

This volume seeks to explore some aspects of the history of Indian emigration to the Caribbean, which is one of the most significant events in the history of Indian indentured migration that took place to different parts of the world during the second half of the nineteenth century. The Indians faced many hardships in the Caribbean during the initial stage of their migration. However, over the years, they have become one of the most successful immigrant ethnic groups in the Caribbean. This book studies key facets of this retention of the Indian ethos. While doing so, it also analyses notions of religiocultural transformation, identity reconstruction, political participation and transformations, as well as resistance to enslavement and other oppressions. The contributors to this volume, who are recognized scholars and academics in the field of Caribbean studies, also have the advantage of first-hand knowledge and the experience of being a part of the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

Author : Movindri Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,9 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 : Bhikhu Parekh,Gurharpal Singh,Steven Vertovec
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134490530

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

Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development.

Author : Asmin
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789353228477

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Diaspora and Nation-Building (Prabhat Prakashan) by Asmin Pdf

Over 33 million strong Indian diasporas spread all over the world has been an exceptionally successful story. Given their skills and other social qualities, they are also among the most sought after lots in most countries. Indian diaspora has performed well on all important parameters Ñ political, economical, technological and cultural. PIOs are amongst the top skilled, employable and prosperous non-native people in most countries. They are heading some of the top multinational companies and hold high positions in many international organisations, in a way making an important contribution to the evolving global agenda. Today, Indian diaspora is investing in creating jobs and cutting edge technologies world over. India has also done very well in reaching out to its diaspora through various channels, including the youth. At over USD 75 billion annually, India is the top recipient of remittances. Diaspora could also be an important source of technology and know-how. Given their goodwill on both sides, they are a great source of confidence-building between India and countries of their adoption and have demonstrated their clout on many occasions. Over the last many centuries, Indians have travelled to many near and far off destinations in the world for trade, business, education and jobs. One major wave of such movement was carried out by the colonial administration under the so called indentured system for meeting labour shortages in their overseas plantations. This inhuman system of exploitation of workers finally ended and the centenary of its abolition was commemorated in many parts of the world including India during 2017-18. Antar Rashtrya Sahyog Parishad (ARSP) had organised year long activities to mark this important land mark in the life of Indian diaspora, culminating with an international conference on the topic, ÔContribution of Diaspora in Nation BuildingÕ in Mauritius in July 2018. Several leaders and scholars addressed this gathering and this publication captures the essence of its outcomes. This publication could be a good reference for students and scholars working on diaspora.

Author : Ruben Gowricharn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000219920

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Multiple Homemaking by Ruben Gowricharn Pdf

This book develops a theoretical perspective on homemaking as the ethnic condition of Indian diaspora communities. It draws on empirical case studies to elucidate the multiple homemaking practices of two overseas Indian groups and their relations to their homeland, namely the Surinami Hindustanis and the Dutch Hindustanis. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on homemaking that captures ethnogenesis, integration and diasporic bonding at once. As opposed to the extant discourse on homemaking which overlooks institutional and cultural requirements, the author makes a point to scrutinise such concepts as douglarisation, groupism, citizenship, institutions, ethnification, social networks and technology, and transnational flows. Unique and compelling, the book will be highly useful in studies of diaspora, globalisation and transnational migration, multiculturalism, cultural studies, ethnic minority studies, sociology, politics and international relations, and South Asian studies.