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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146421503321

Autore

Oonk Gijsbert

Titolo

Global Indian diasporas : exploring trajectories of migration and theory / / edited by Gijsbert Oonk [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2007

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-281-28422-X

9786611284220

90-485-0106-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; ; 1

Disciplina

304.80954

Soggetti

Migration, immigration & emigration

Science: general issues

India Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Global Indian Diasporas / Oonk, Gijsbert -- PART 1 CRITICAL HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2. Multanis and Shikarpuris / Levi, Scott -- 3. 'We Lost our Gift of Expression' / Oonk, Gijsbert -- 4. Contextualising Diasporic Identity / Bhat, Chandrashekhar / Bhaskar, T.L.S. -- 5. Separated by the Partition? / Bal, Ellen / Sinha-Kerkhoff, Kathinka -- 6. A Chance Diaspora / Mattausch, John -- PART 2 CRITICAL SOCIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- 7. Contested Family Relations and Government Policy / Rutten, Mario / Patel, Pravin J. -- 8. Diaspora Revisited / Mukadam, Anjoom Amir / Mawani, Sharmina -- 9. Bollywood and the Indian diaspora / Verstappen, Sanderien / Rutten, Mario -- 10. Contested Equality / Lynnebakke, Brit -- 11. Afterword / Markovits, Claude -- Bibliography -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.