Global Indian Diasporas: Exploring Trajectories of Migration and Theory (Iiad Publications Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9053560351 ISBN 13: 9789053560358

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Gijsbert Oonk is associate professor of non-Western history in the History Department at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9053560351
• ISBN 13: 9789053560358
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Oonk Gijsbert