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Global Indian diasporas : exploring trajectories of migration and theory / edited by Gijsbert Oonk.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 1.
- IIAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- Social sciences.
- India--Emigration and immigration.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9786611284220
- 9781281284228
- 128128422X
- 9789048501069
- 9048501067
- OCLC:
- 231640676
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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