Tracing An Indian Diaspora

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ISBN 13 : 9788132112419
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing an Indian Diaspora written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title discusses the migratory movements that have led to the formation of the Indian diaspora and to diasporic practices. It looks at the ways and means of remembering and enacting diasporic belonging and the sites and spaces where such narratives of belonging are performed.

Author : Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 940121171X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tracing the New Indian Diaspora written by Om Prakash Dwivedi and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing importance of the Indian diaspora is felt today across the globe due to its emergence as the second-largest dias¬poric community. By examining historical, socio-cultural, economic, political, and lite¬rary aspects of the Indian diaspora, this volume sets out to trace the latest devel¬opments in the field of Indian diaspora studies. It brings together essays by Indian and foreign scholars, thus providing an authoritative platform for discussions in which identities and affiliations are con¬tested and constituted through the hier¬archies of cross-cultural migration in this increasingly globalized world. This volume traces the transnational network of the Indian diaspora, and will prove of interest to scholars working in the fields of the Indian diaspora, diaspora theory, and cultural studies. Countries covered include Mauritius, Fiji, Singapore, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Malaya, South Africa, and New Zealand. Creative writers dis¬cussed include Ramabai Espinet, Vikram Chandra, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Banerjee Diva¬karuni, Nisha Ganatra, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kavery Nambisan, and Sarita Mandanna, along with the work of filmmakers (Mira Nair, Yash Chopra, Kabir Khan, Shuchi Kothari, Mandrika Rupa, Karan Johar, Sugu Pillay, Mallika Krishnamurthy, and Nisha Ganatra). Wideranging and scholarly. Dwivedi’s edited collection on routes and representations of the Indian diaspora is a vital contribution to the growing critical discourse on this subject. — Professor Janet Wilson, Northampton University, UK Tracing the New Indian Diaspora is a significant contribution to the understanding of the positions and representations of the Indian diaspora, forcing us to re-examine our notions of location and dislocation, of home and the world, of belonging and alienation: in short, of the politics of the diaspora today. — Professor GJV Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Om Prakash Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in English at Taiz University, Yemen. His recent publications include The Other India: Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence (2012), Postcolonial Theory in the Global Age (co-ed. with Martin Kich, 2013), and a collection of short stories, The World to Come (2014).

Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691162115
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora, Development, and Democracy written by Devesh Kapur and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries. Devesh Kapur finds that migration has influenced India far beyond a simplistic "brain drain"--migration's impact greatly depends on who leaves and why. The book offers new methods and empirical evidence for measuring these traits and shows how data about these characteristics link to specific outcomes. For instance, the positive selection of Indian migrants through education has strengthened India's democracy by creating a political space for previously excluded social groups. Because older Indian elites have an exit option, they are less likely to resist the loss of political power at home. Education and training abroad has played an important role in facilitating the flow of expertise to India, integrating the country into the world economy, positively shaping how India is perceived, and changing traditional conceptions of citizenship. The book highlights a paradox--while international migration is a cause and consequence of globalization, its effects on countries of origin depend largely on factors internal to those countries. A rich portrait of the Indian migrant community, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy explores the complex political and economic consequences of migration for the countries migrants leave behind.

Author : Ravindra K. Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704132
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation written by Ravindra K. Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate. In this anthropological narrative both nation and trans-nation are ‘moving targets’; their positionality shifts and changes according to the geo-political location of the analyst and the frame of comparison brought to bear on the objects/subjects of study. In Jain’s case the locus happens to be India but the discussion in this book does not foreclose perspectives from ‘other’ nations. Indeed as his own examples from countries of the Indian Ocean zone, the Asia Pacific region and the Caribbean amply demonstrate the methodology of ethno-cultural relativism built in these diasporic comparisons is the surest guarantee for tracing the juxtaposed dialectic of nation and trans-nation from whichever existential location one begins. The rootedness of this particular discourse in India provides coherence in the nature of a case-study of globalization from a prominent diaspora node of our times. At the same time it unravels dimensions of Indian social institutions viewed from the vantage point of diaspora. The book, therefore, is an invitation to further multi-disciplinary and multi-sited collaboration in the exploration of globalization, diaspora, nationalism and patriotism as well as transnationalism from diverse perspectives.

Author : Steve Raymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of a Journey written by Steve Raymer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the United Kingdom to the Middle East and South Africa, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, to the United States and Canada, Images of a Journey introduces us to the people who have changed the way the world sees India."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anand Mulloo
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120831971
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Indian Diaspora written by Anand Mulloo and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book: Spread over a wide canvas, but focused entirely on the Indian diaspora, Mulloo attempts a diasporic perspective by using the inter disciplinary tools of history, economics, politics and sociology to narrate the story of overseas Indians.

Author : Neha Vora
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353938
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Impossible Citizens written by Neha Vora and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now compose its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant families are middle-class and second-, third-, or even fourth-generation residents, Indians cannot become legal citizens of the United Arab Emirates. Instead, they are all classified as temporary guest workers. In Impossible Citizens, Neha Vora draws on her ethnographic research in Dubai's Indian-dominated downtown to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of permanent temporariness. While their legal status defines them as perpetual outsiders, Indians are integral to the Emirati nation-state and its economy. At the same time, Indians—even those who have established thriving diasporic neighborhoods in the emirate—disavow any interest in formally belonging to Dubai and instead consider India their home. Vora shows how these multiple and conflicting logics of citizenship and belonging contribute to new understandings of contemporary citizenship, migration, and national identity, ones that differ from liberal democratic models and that highlight how Indians, rather than Emiratis, are the quintessential—yet impossible—citizens of Dubai.

Author : John Stone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119430194
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism written by John Stone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad examination of the rise of nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and racism throughout the world The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism provides expert insight into the complex, interconnected factors that are influencing patterns of human relations worldwide in a time of rising populist nationalism, intensified racial and religious tensions, and mounting hostilities towards immigrants and minorities. Analyzing the underlying forces which continue to drive global trends, this volume examines contemporary patterns based on the most recent evidence spanning five continents—offering a diversity of interpretations, models and perspectives that address the challenges facing the study of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. The Companion features original contributions by both established experts and emerging scholars that explore an expansive range of theoretical, historical, and empirical case studies. Organized into five sections, the text first discusses growing trends in the United States, the significance of populism in major societies around the globe, and how global changes are influencing regional variations in race, ethnicity, and nationalism. An investigation of global migration patterns is followed by examination of conflict and violence, from urban riots and boundary disputes to warfare and genocide. The final section focuses on the policy debates resulting from changing patterns and their impact on politics, the economy, and society. Timely and highly relevant, this book: Discusses contemporary issues such as the failure of school systems to provide equal opportunities to minorities, the evolution of the School-to-Prison pipeline, and the Black Lives Matter movement Explores shifts in American race relations, the influence of social media and the internet, and the links between increased globalization and contemporary forms of nationalism, racism, and populism Features essays on national and ethnic identity in China, Japan, and South Korea, India, Central Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe Analyzes policies regarding borders, immigration, refugees, and human rights in different countries and regions Offers perspectives on the radicalization of social movements, the creation of ethnic, linguistic and other boundaries between groups, and the models used to understand intractable conflicts in many global settings The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism is an indispensable resource for scholars, researchers, instructors, and students across the social sciences, including sociology, political science, global affairs, economics, comparative race and ethnic relations, international migration, social change, and sociological theory.

Author : Brij V. Lal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora written by Brij V. Lal and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora is the first comprehensive survey of Indian communities around the world. Over 30 contextual features show the initiatives taken by these communities and the contributions they have made both internationally and to their host societies, in areas as diverse as literature, cuisine, popular culture, sports and political life. The greater part of the book consists of 44 country/region profiles covering all parts of the world. Written by over 60 scholars from across the globe, most of whom are from the diaspora, the encyclopedia provides insights into the experiences of a people about whom much is often assumed but little is actually known. The recent expansion of the Indian diaspora, now some 20-million strong and growing, is a social transformation of global significance. Many members of the diaspora have reached the highest levels of global commerce and trade, international public service and diplomacy, the professionals and academia. In addition, the creative literature from and about the diaspora holds a distinctive and distinguished place in the world's literary imagination.

Author : Ajay Kumar Dubey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Diaspora written by Ajay Kumar Dubey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book :- The sun never sets on Indian Diaspora. This Diaspora has emerged as one of the leading and largest Diaspora of the world. It has grown from a scattered, marginalised self containing isolated overseas community to assume leadership of digital and literary world. From imaginary and weak realtionship with India, it has emerged into a web relationship of People of Indian Origin spread all over the world with the country of origin working as a vibrant hub. It is now aggresively supported bya proactive policy of mother country. Though it is relatively nascent, but this confident, mobilized and networked Diaspora has acquried a global identity. This book attempt s to capture the new emerging face of Indian Diaspora all over the world. It has tried to understand and analyze Indian Diaspora to have insights into its distinct civilisational identity. About the Author : - Dr. Ajay Dubey is on the Faculty of the School of International sTudies and currently Chairman of the Centre for West Asian and African studies at Jawahalral Nehru University. His earlier publications includes books on Government and politics in Mauritius Ed. Democratic Governance and Indo African Relations in teh Post Nehru Era.