Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2033918
M. Valenta
ABSTRACT Within the last decade, oil-rich countries in the Middle East have become among the largest receivers of Nepalese labor migrants. It is estimated that about half of the total Nepalese labor migration currently funnels into Gulf Cooperation Council countries (the GCC). In this article, we explore the dynamics of these migrations based on in-depth interviews with Nepalese migrants at different stages of their migration trajectories. We find that migrations within the GCC are not a one-time phenomenon. Multiple migrations that involve crisscrossing the Arab Gulf are an important part of Nepalese migrants’ experiences. We distinguish between circular, serial and stepwise Nepalese migrations and argue that they are shaped by migrant strategies and the various local, regional and international structures that enable and constrain their migratory aspirations, temporary returns to Nepal and remigrations to the GCC and onwards.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2040807
Ingrid Smette
{"title":"Superdiverse diaspora: everyday identifications of Tamil migrants in Britain","authors":"Ingrid Smette","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2022.2040807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2022.2040807","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"197 1","pages":"103 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79941464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2040809
N. Lang
{"title":"Religion and senses of place","authors":"N. Lang","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2022.2040809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2022.2040809","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"45 1","pages":"101 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77884435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-12DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.2010168
Prema A. Kurien
ABSTRACT Why do some diasporic activists gravitate towards ethnic organisations while others mobilise around a panethnic paradigm, and what difference does this make for patterns of activism? A prominent division among secular activists of Indian American background is that some individuals prefer to mobilise as ‘Indian Americans’ while others are active as ‘South Asian Americans.’ There are fundamental differences in the strategies, goals, and broader alliance patterns of these two types of advocacy organisations. This article argues that this is because each type of organisation is responding to specific frameworks and incentives for mobilisation within the U.S. landscape with immigrant leaders rallying around Indian American organisations focused on foreign policy, while second generation activists mobilise around South Asian American organisations focused on domestic policy, particularly racism and civil rights. It makes an important contribution by showing how generational difference can shape the goals and strategies of advocacy organisations.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-04DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.2007449
Vipin Krishna
{"title":"History and collective memory in South Asia, 1200-2000","authors":"Vipin Krishna","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2021.2007449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2021.2007449","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"96 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88367769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-04DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.2007450
Kulwinder Singh, Naresh Singla, Nirvair Singh
ABSTRACT Given very well-established channels of regular emigration, the co-existence and mushrooming of irregular emigration from Indian Punjab presents a peculiar case and therefore, requires to be deeply investigated. The study finds that irregular migration is largely a forced migration rather than a wilful one. Migration policies of destination countries largely enforce irregular migration by restricting less-educated and semi-skilled Punjabis to migrate through regular mode. The prospective migrants after being rejected under the regular migration system adopt irregular migration. Thus, irregular migration compliments regular migration, rather than substituting it. Although irregular migration is found to be economically unviable in the initial years but offers net economic gains as it gets older. Liberalisation of the migration policies in destination countries, improvement in the quality of school education and its infrastructure and strictly monitoring business of travel agents in Indian Punjab can check the menace of irregular migration effectively.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.2007447
La’Teeká E. Gray
{"title":"Indian migrants in Tokyo: a study of socio-cultural, religious, and working worlds","authors":"La’Teeká E. Gray","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2021.2007447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2021.2007447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"251 3-4","pages":"94 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72455461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.1987146
Parvathy Poornima
hybrid identity and ruthless experiences of being away from homeland. Romania is discussed again in violence and media and its representation as shown in Italy and immigrant country Romania. A cultural religious identity of Indians in Romania is the focus of another chapter leading to a strong community identity in Europe. There are few essays on films and the representation of diaspora in media, including perception of South Asian Muslims post 9/11 period by Indian directors and the construction of diasporic subjectivities through films. Deepa Mehta and her perception of Gandhi’s concept of Truth are seen in one of the essays in the context of Derridas’s notion of Lie of the State and State of the Lie. A chapter on the short-term visiting parents in Indo-Canadian diaspora is a notable new arena of research with sociological perspective. It analyses intricately how the bond in diaspora actually crosses the family to the nations. Essay on issues on surrogacy and transnational mother– child relation gives a refreshing thought to the readers in understanding motherhood. The recovery of ‘another voice’ is reflected in the essay on queer diaspora, which focuses on the deprived reality space of the ‘third gender’ and forces them towards the virtual and cyberspace. The Sikh Diaspora, Nigerian diaspora, South Asian Diaspora, Britain’s referendum of 2016 on European Union membership and its impact on immigration forms a part of this section of the book. These chapters widen the area of reading in diaspora. A feminist outlook is presented by the essay on hollowness and homelessness of Taslima Nasreen’s journey to ‘other’ nation protesting against patriarchy. The book is summed up again with essays in search of identity and problems of distinct crises through the novels of Chitra Banerjee and Bharati Mukherjee. Overall, it is a very well-conceived, documented and scholarly work of research on diaspora. The book does not conventionally focus on the economic and social aspects of diaspora but looks into the problems and dimensions of trans-nationality and hybridity. It fills the void of a long-needed reference book covering an extended well-connected history of emigration and problems and issues of communities involved in it. Readers would benefit from the addition of a noteworthy foreword and an analytical introduction by Nilufer E. Bharucha, one of the editors. However, some chapters in the third section have repetition in thoughts, and relevance in certain areas would make the book more focused.
混合身份和背井离乡的残酷经历。罗马尼亚在意大利和移民国家罗马尼亚的暴力和媒体及其代表性中再次被讨论。罗马尼亚印度人的文化宗教身份是导致欧洲强烈社区身份的另一章的重点。关于电影和媒体中散居侨民的表现的文章很少，包括印度导演对9/11后南亚穆斯林的看法以及通过电影构建散居侨民的主体性。迪帕·梅塔和她对甘地真理概念的理解在德里达关于国家的谎言和谎言的国家的概念的一篇文章中可以看到。关于印度-加拿大侨民中短期访问父母的章节是一个值得注意的社会学视角研究的新领域。它错综复杂地分析了散居者之间的纽带是如何从家庭跨越到国家的。代孕与跨国母子关系问题的论述，为读者理解母性提供了新的思路。“另一种声音”的恢复反映在关于酷儿散居的文章中，它关注的是“第三性”被剥夺的现实空间，并迫使他们走向虚拟和网络空间。散居海外的锡克教徒、尼日利亚侨民、南亚侨民、2016年英国脱欧公投及其对移民的影响构成了本书这一部分的内容。这些章节拓宽了散居的阅读领域。塔斯利马·纳斯琳(Taslima Nasreen)前往“其他”国家抗议父权制的旅程中，她的空虚和无家可归之旅体现了女权主义的观点。这本书再次总结了通过奇特拉·班纳吉和巴拉蒂·慕克吉的小说寻找身份和不同危机问题的文章。总的来说，这是一个非常精心构思，记录和学术工作的研究侨民。这本书并没有传统地关注侨民的经济和社会方面，而是着眼于跨国和杂交的问题和维度。它填补了一本长期需要的参考书的空白，这本参考书涵盖了广泛而紧密联系的移民历史以及涉及移民的社区的问题和问题。读者将受益于一个值得注意的前言和由编辑之一尼鲁弗·e·巴鲁查(Nilufer E. Bharucha)撰写的分析性介绍。然而，第三部分的一些章节在思想上有重复，在某些领域的相关性会使本书更加集中。
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Pub Date : 2021-10-15DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.1987145
Tahseen Shams
{"title":"Redefining the immigrant south: Indian and Pakistani immigration to Houston during the cold war","authors":"Tahseen Shams","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2021.1987145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2021.1987145","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"12 1","pages":"92 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85421542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2021.1982175
Alexandra T. Sundarsingh
{"title":"Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya","authors":"Alexandra T. Sundarsingh","doi":"10.1080/19438192.2021.1982175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2021.1982175","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42548,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Diaspora","volume":"32 5 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82763870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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