Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory

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 vol...

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Other Authors: Oonk, Gijsbert (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2007]
Series:IIAS Publications
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Online Access:DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-1046
DE-1043
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9789048501069
DOI:10.1515/9789048501069