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Book South Asians Overseas

Download or read book South Asians Overseas written by Colin Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers essays relating to the South Asian diaspora which occurred after slavery's end in the British Empire.

Book Migration and Religion in Europe

Download or read book Migration and Religion in Europe written by Ester Gallo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious practices and their transformation are crucial elements of migrants' identities and are increasingly politicized by national governments in the light of perceived threats to national identity. As new immigrant flows shape religious pluralism in Europe, longstanding relations between the State and Church are challenged, together with majority-faith traditions and societies’ ways of representing and perceiving themselves. With attention to variations according to national setting, this volume explores the process of reformulating religious identities and practices amongst South Asian 'communities' in European contexts, Presenting a wide range of ethnographies, including studies of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Islam amongst migrant communities in contexts as diverse as Norway, Italy, the UK, France and Portugal, Migration and Religion in Europe sheds light on the meaning of religious practices to diasporic communities. It examines the manner in which such practices can be used by migrants and local societies to produce distance or proximity, as well as their political significance in various 'host' nations. Offering insights into the affirmation of national identities and cultures and the implications of this for governance and political discourse within Europe, this book will appeal to scholars with interests in anthropology, religion and society, migration, transnationalism and gender.

Book Diaspora and Identity

Download or read book Diaspora and Identity written by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to a deeper understanding of contemporary socio-cultural transformations and the way in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of such transformations. The book will be of interest to scholars of diaspora studies, cultural studies, international migration studies, and ethnic and racial studies. This book is a collection of papers from the journal South Asian Diaspora.

Book International Migration and Development in South Asia

Download or read book International Migration and Development in South Asia written by Md Mizanur Rahman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In migration studies, the nexus between migration and development in the global South has been meticulously debated. However, a unanimous resolution to this debate has not been found, due to the ever-changing nature of international migration. This book advances knowledge on the global debate on the migration-development relationship by documenting experiences in a number of countries in South Asia. Drawing on the experiences of global South Asians, this volume documents the impact of migration on the social, economic, and political fields in the broader context of development. It also presents a regional experience by looking into the migration-development nexus in the context of South Asia, and analyses the role South Asian migrants and diaspora communities play in the South Asian society. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations and economics, document the development implications of South Asian migration. Broad in scope in terms of contents, timeline of migration, and geographical coverage, the book presents empirically-based case studies involving India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal and their emigrants living and working in different parts of the world. Going beyond reporting the impacts of migration on economic development by highlighting the implications of ‘social development’ on society, this book provides a fascinating contribution to the fields of Asian Development, Migration Studies and South Asian Studies.

Book Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities

Download or read book Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities written by Jayati Bhattacharya and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.

Book Community  Empire and Migration

Download or read book Community Empire and Migration written by Crispin Bates and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, such as Fiji, Africa, the Caribbean and USA, where South Asians migrated in the colonial period and after. It addresses the connections between migration, problems of identity and ethnic conflict from a comparative perspective, and highlights the role of shared colonial experiences in providing 'communal' solidarities and discord.

Book Asian Migrants and Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael W. Charney
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-04-17
  • ISBN : 9401701172
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Asian Migrants and Education written by Michael W. Charney and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume explore the close relationship between education and the molding of modern immigrant societies through case studies of either Asian migrants or Asian immigrant societies. This volume will be especially useful for researchers, educators, and students intent on understanding some of the critical challenges faced by a globalizing world.

Book Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora written by Joya Chatterji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. This inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications. The Handbook is split into five main sections, with chapters looking at mobile South Asians in the early modern world before moving on to discuss diaspora in relation to empire, nation, nation state and the neighbourhood, and globalisation and culture. Contributors highlight how South Asian diaspora has influenced politics, business, labour, marriage, family and culture. This much needed and pioneering venture provides an invaluable reference work for students, scholars and policy makers interested in South Asian Studies.

Book Imperial Andamans

    Book Details:
  • Author : A. Vaidik
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2010-07-28
  • ISBN : 0230274889
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Imperial Andamans written by A. Vaidik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traverses the Indian Ocean in the period when the British held sway over the major oceanic waters of the world. In reviving the history of the Andamans as an important imperial prize, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of British colonialism, nationalism and the creation of modern India from its geographic periphery.

Book Small Island  Large Ocean

Download or read book Small Island Large Ocean written by Burkhard Schnepel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a ‘Small Island’, namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a ‘Large Ocean’, the Indian Ocean world—its peoples, histories and cultures. It casts light on the life of an island through what is known not only about the island itself, but also through what is known about the wider Indian Ocean world. It is also about the Indian Ocean world in that it focuses on an island, which, in many senses and dimensions, is not only a model of, but in some respects also a model for wider developments and features of relevance to the Indian Ocean world as a whole.

Book Nandanar s Children

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raj Sekhar Basu
  • Publisher : SAGE Publications
  • Release : 2011-02-14
  • ISBN : 8132105141
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Nandanar s Children written by Raj Sekhar Basu and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrative of this book is built around the historical experiences of the Paraiyars of Tamil Nadu. The author traces the transformation of the Paraiyars from an ‘untouchable’ and socially despised community to one that came to acquire prominence in the political scene of Tamil Nadu, especially in early 20th century. Through this framework, the book studies a number of issues: subaltern history, colonial ethnography, agrarian systems, agrarian bondage, land legislations, and the interventions by missionaries and social and political organizations.

Book India Beyond India  Dilemmas of Belonging

Download or read book India Beyond India Dilemmas of Belonging written by Elfriede Hermann and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People’s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities operating within various political contexts. Migrants and their descendants labor to form and transform relations with their country of origin and of residence. People who see their origins in India but are now living elsewhere are a case in point. They have been establishing worldwide home places, whose growing number and vibrancy invite reconsideration of Indian diasporic communities and contexts in terms of ‘India(s) beyond India.’ Issues of belonging in Indian diasporas include questions of membership not only in the nation of previous and present residence and/or the nation of origin, but also in other communities and networks in political, economic, religious and social realms at local, regional or global levels. Yet, belonging – and especially simultaneous belonging – to various formations is rarely unambiguous. Rather, belonging in all its modes may entail dilemmas that arise from inclusions and exclusions. Bearing in mind such processes, the contributions to this volume endeavor to provide answers to the question of what kinds of difficulties members of Indian communities abroad encounter in connection with their identifications with and participation in specific collectivities. The underlying argument of all the essays collected is that members of Indian diasporas develop strategies to cope with the dilemmas they face in connection with their sense of belonging to particular communities, while they are subjected to specific power relationships. Thus, the volume sheds light on the ways in which dilemmas of belonging are being negotiated in intercultural fields.

Book                                                                                            1850     1956   Nandanin Pillaigal  Parayar Varalaru 1850   1956

Download or read book 1850 1956 Nandanin Pillaigal Parayar Varalaru 1850 1956 written by ராஜ் சேகர் பாசு / Raj Sekhar Basu and published by Kizhakku Pathippagam. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: """பறையர்கள் என்பவர்கள் யார் என்னும் ஆதாரக் கேள்வியுடன் தொடங்கும் இந்த முக்கியமான ஆய்வுநூல் 19ம் நூற்றாண்டின் தொடக்கம் முதல் 20ம் நூற்றாண்டின் பிற்பகுதி வரையிலான பறையர்களின் சமூக, அரசியல், பொருளாதார வாழ்க்கை முறையை மிக விரிவாகவும் ஆதாரபூர்வமாகவும் பதிவு செய்திருக்கிறது. பிரிட்டிஷ் காலனியாதிக்கத்துக்கு ஆட்படுவதற்கு முன்பு பறையர்களின் வாழ்நிலை எப்படி இருந்தது என்பதையும் ஆட்பட்ட பின்னர் எத்தகைய மாற்றங்களையெல்லாம் சந்திக்க நேர்ந்தது என்பதையும் நுணுக்கமாக ஒப்பிட்டு ஆராய்கிறது. இந்த மாற்றத்தில் பங்கெடுத்த பிரிட்டிஷ் மற்றும் இந்திய அமைப்புகள், அரசியல் கட்சிகள், கிறிஸ்தவ மிஷனரிகள் ஆகியவற்றைப் பற்றியும் பல விரிவான செய்திகள் இந்நூலில் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளன. பறையர்கள் மெல்ல மெல்ல தங்கள் வாழ்நிலையை மாற்றிக்கொண்டு போராடத் தொடங்கியபோதும் அரசியல் வெளிக்குள் நுழைந்தபோதும் மேல்சாதியினரும் ஆதிக்கப் பிரிவினரும் எப்படியெல்லாம் எதிர்வினையாற்றினார்கள் என்பதை வாசிக்கும்போது நந்தனார் சம்பவம் நம் நினைவுக்கு வந்துவிடுகிறது. திராவிட இயக்கம் தோன்றுவதற்கு முன்பே, 1850களில் பறையர்களின் போராட்ட மரபு தொடங்கிவிட்டது என்பதைத் தகுந்த ஆதாரங்களுடன் நிறுவும் நூலாசிரியர் ராஜ் சேகர் பாசு, தமிழ்நாட்டின் தவிர்க்கவியலாத அரசியல் சக்தியாக பறையர்கள் மாறிப்போனது எப்படி என்பதைப் படிப்படியாக விவரிக்கிறார். பிரிட்டிஷ் நிர்வாக ஆவணங்கள், அரசுத் துறை பதிவுகள், நில ஆவணங்கள் என்று தொடங்கி விரிவான, ஆழமான மூலாதாரங்களில் இருந்து பறையர்கள் குறித்த தகவல்களைத் திரட்டியெடுத்து ஆய்வு செய்துள்ளார். விளிம்புநிலை மக்களின் வரலாறு எப்படி ஆய்வு செய்யப்படவேண்டும், எப்படி ஆவணப்படுத்தப்படவேண்டும் என்பதற்கு இந்தப் புத்தகம் ஒரு அருமையான உதாரணம். சாதி, அரசியல், வரலாறு, சமூகவியல் ஆகிய துறைகளில் ஆர்வம் உள்ள அனைவரும் போற்றி வரவேற்கவேண்டிய மிக முக்கியமான பதிவு இந்நூல். """

Book The Bengal Diaspora

Download or read book The Bengal Diaspora written by Claire E. Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have witnessed the growth of a new interest, both scholarly and political, in migration and diaspora. This book focuses on three groups of Muslim Bengali migrants. One group had migrated across international borders after partition and settled in Britain; the second had crossed borders but had settled in the neighbouring nation state of East Pakistan/Bangladesh in South Asia itself; the third had crossed no borders but had been internally displaced within West Bengal in India, or within Bangladesh after it was formed in 1971. Based on groundbreaking new research in India, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom, this is the first study to compare internal displacees with international migrants and refugees. The analysis pays attention to the vitally important inter-connections and interactions between the different groups. The authors offer a historical perspective, exploring different phases of migration and settlement, evolving legal frameworks and the shifting formations of 'community'. They also use the life history approach to present the diverse voices and experiences of migrants. Finally, the book describes the hidden experiences of marginalised and silenced groups, such as women, refugees, 'infiltrators', illegal workers and brides. The combination of these historical, sociological and anthropological methods and materials result in an interdisciplinary approach to diaspora and migration, which makes this book a unique contribution to the field.

Book New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience

Download or read book New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience written by Connie Rapoo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses the discourse, experience and representation of Diaspora from a variety of cultural and disciplinary perspectives and offers new and original insight into contemporary notions of Diaspora.

Book The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lankan Diaspora written by Peter Reeves and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.