The South Asian Diaspora

Transnational networks and changing identities
Herausgeber: Rai, Rajesh; Reeves, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora. It is, moreover, one which of late has seen phenomenal growth, both due to natural increase and the result of a continued movement of professionals and labourers in the late 20th and early 21st century from the subcontinent to countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Singapore. This book uses the concept of transnational networks as a means to understand the South Asian diaspora. Taking into account diverse aspects of formation and development, the concept breaks down the artificial boundaries that have been dominating the literature between the 'old' and the 'new' era of migration. Thereby the continued connectedness of most historic South Asian settlements is shown, and the fluid nature of South Asian identities is explored. Offering a unique and original insight into the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to academics working in the field of South Asian Studies, Diaspora and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Transnationalism and Globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780415596169
• ISBN-10: 0415596165
• Artikelnr.: 40577522

Autorenporträt

Rajesh Rai is Assistant Professor at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the fields of diaspora studies and transnational identities, nationalism and the post-colonial history and politics of South Asia. He is assistant editor of The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora (2006), and has published several articles on various aspects of the South Asian Diaspora particularly in Southeast Asia. Peter Reeves, Emeritus Professor of South Asian History at Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia), was Visiting Professor and Head of the South Asian Studies Programme (SASP) at the National University of Singapore from 1999 to 2006. His research interests include the history of the South Asian diaspora, the history of fisheries in colonial South Asia and the maritime history of the Indian Ocean since 1800. He was executive editor of The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Transnational Networks 1. Ethnicity, locality and
circulation in two diasporic merchant networks from South Asia 2. The
social world of Gujarati merchants and their Indian Ocean networks in the
seventeenth century 3. Subaltern networks in a colonial diaspora: a study
of Indian migrants and Mauritius 4. An entrepreneurial diaspora?
Transnational space and India's international economic expansion Part 2:
Socio-economic Identities & Change 5. Indians in Southeast Asia: migrant
labour, knowledge workers and the new India 6. Indo-Fijians: roots and
routes 7. From Bharat to Sri Ram Desh: the emigration of Indian indentured
labourers to Suriname 8. Sociological reflections on the diasporic
Bangladeshis in Singapore and USA Part 3: Culture & Changing Diasporic
Identities 9. The attrition and survival of minor South Asian languages in
Singapore 10. Forging kinship with food: the experience of South Indians in
Malaysia 11. Bhai Maharaj Singh and the making of a 'model minority': Sikhs
in Singapore 12. 'The familiar temporariness': Naipaul, diaspora and the
literary imagination: a personal narrative