This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected.
The concept of crossing borders emerges as an important theme, along with the interweaving of life in geographic and web spaces. The authors draw from a variety of archives and intellectual perspectives in order to map the narratives of Indian transnationalism and analyse the interplay of culture and structures within transnational contexts. The topics covered range from the history of transnational networks, activism, identity, gender, politics, labour, policy, performance, literature and more. This collection presents a wide array of issues and debates which will reinvigorate discussions about Indian transnationalism.
This handbook will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, and students interested in studying South Asia in general and the Indian diaspora in particular.
This handbook introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected.
Introduction Indian Transnationalism; PART I Migrant/Workers Lives; 1
Globality in Exceptional Spaces: Service Workers in Indias Transnational
Economyi; 2 Skill Gap and Brain Drain for United States: Impact of Trump
Executive Order on H1B and India; 3 From Students to Spouses: Gender and
Labour in Indian Transnationalism; 4 Transnationalism and Return Migration of
Scientists & Engineers from the United States to India; PART II On Culture
and Identities; 5 Translocal Puja: The Relevance of Gift Exchange and
Locality in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities; 6 Indian Music and
Transnationalism; 7 Transnational Collaborations by Selected Contemporary
Indian Dancers; 8 Revealing the Messiness of Transnational Identities:
Second-generation South Asians in Canada; 9 Negotiating transnational
identity among second generation Indian residents in Oman; PART III Political
Engagement in Transnational Spaces; 10 Transnationalism and Indian/American
Foreign Policy; 11 Constructing Hindu Identities in France and the United
States: A Comparative Analysis; 12 Facing Strong Head Winds: Dalit
Transnational Activism Today; PART IV Gender and Indian Transnationalism; 13
Experiences of Empowerment and Constraint: Narratives of Transnational Indian
Women Entrepreneurs; 14 Indian Origin Women: Organising Against Apartheid; 15
Workers, families, and households: Towards a gendered, raced, and classed
understanding of Indian transnationalism in Canada; 16 Is Migration a Ticket
to Freedom? Exploring Sense of Freedom among Indian Women in Toronto; 17
Middling Tamil Migrant Workers and the Translocal Village in Singapore; PART
V On Historic and Contemporary Networks in Transnational Spaces; 18 The
Transnational Mobility of Indians in the time of the British Empire; 19
Layered Cities, Shared Histories: Gold, Mobility and Urbanity between Dubai
and Malabar; 20 Emergence of Singapore as a Pivot for Indian Diasporic and
Transnational Networks
Ajaya K. Sahoo teaches at the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His research interests include the Indian diaspora and transnationalism. He has co-edited the Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora (2018), Indian Transnationalism Online (2014), Transnational Migrations: The Indian Diaspora (2009) and Tracing an Indian Diaspora: Contexts, Memories, Representations (2008). He is also the editor of South Asian Diaspora, also published by Routledge.
Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research interests are the intersections of gender/racism/class/age, transnationalism, violence and peace, and human rights. Her recent books are The Human Rights Enterprise: Political Sociology, State Power, and Social Movements (2015), Voices of Internally Displaced Persons in Kenya: A Human Rights Perspective (2015) and Human Trafficking (2018).
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