Tamil diaspora : intersectionality of migration, religion, language and culture / Dr. Peter Vethanayagamony, [editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vethanayagamony, Peter, editor.

Singh Family Fund.

Series:

Indian diaspora series.

Indian Diaspora series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tamil diaspora.

Tamil (Indic people)--Foreign countries.

Tamil (Indic people).

Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 436 ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Serials Publications Pvt. Ltd., [2020]

Summary:

Tamil Diaspora presents the fascinating saga of Tamil people around the world, a long and multifaceted history of their journeys, wanderings, triumphs and challenges on different shores of the world far from their ancestral homeland even as they adopt and adapt into their host countries. This volume is a brief snapshot of that complex narrative and explores the various dimensions of their lives in diaspora from diverse disciplinary lenses. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Sam George and T. V. Thomas

Introduction / Peter Vethanayagamony

A dislocated minority community empowers itself : a glimpse at contemporary Malaysian Indians / Denison Jayasooria

Alien geography and diaspora as Tamil cultural construct : conceptualizing Singaporean Tamil narrative / Babu Immanuel Venkataraman

Before and after 'diaspora' : precarious citizens and South-South Asian cyber-nationalism Malaysia, Sri Lanka and beyond / Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake

Tamils in Sri Lanka: aspirations, struggles and hopes / Christie Samuel

Language and religion of Tamils in the emerging Singapore Indian identity / Joshua Ebenezar Jesudason

'Crisis heterotopia,' and "aura' of the Sri Lankan Tamils in the diasporic narrative of Kannathil Muthamittal / Gopalan Ravindran

Saree as a cultural marker : diasporic women on a virtual platform / Sharon Wilson and Swagata Sinha Roy Indonesian Tamil women : a gendered affiliation to post-colonial order / Silvia Vignato

Tamils in South Africa : quest for identity / P. Pratap Kumar

People of South Indian and Tamil origins in Fiji / Vijay Naidu, Subhash Appanna and Neelesh Gounder

Tenacity and resurgence of Tamil culture and heritage in Reúnion Island / Céline Ramsamy-Giancone and Sangari Anandanadaradja

Tamils in Britain : migration, settlement and the establishment of a public Tamil Hindu temple / Demelza Jones

Paris becomes Tamil : the morphing of the new cultural space into sacred geography / Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

Growing old in the second home country : Tamil diaspora in Switzerland / Damaris Lüthi

"Take me as I am" : insights from the second generation Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Switzerland / Rina Malagayo Alluri

Tamils in the technology industries of the United States / Jeyaprakash S. Samuel Diversity and diaspora: second generation Indian Tamils in the USA / Christabel Devadoss

Tamil diaspora in Arizona, USA / Dave S. Mahadevan

Tamil diaspora in Chicago : its origins, identity, diversity, triumphs and tussles / Peter Vethanayagamony.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.

ISBN:

9788194556343

8194556341

OCLC:

1225287459