Community, Empire and Migration

South Asians in Diaspora

Crispin Bates author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

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SUMITA CHATTERJEE Ph.D THOMAS BLOM HANSEN Associate Professor, Department of International Development Studies, Roskilde University AMARJIT KAUR Professor of Economic History, School of Economic Studies, University of New England, Armidale JOHN D. KELLY Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago KAREN ISAKSEN LEONARD Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine AMINAH MOHAMMAD Lecturer, l'Institute National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris ARI NAVE Director of Pangea Productions RAVI K. THIARA Principal Researcher, Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham MICHAEL TWADDLE Reader in Commonwealth Studies, University of London MOHAMMAD WASEEM Professor of International Relations, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad NIRA WICKRAMASINGHE Senior Lecturer, Department of History and Political Science, University of Colombo

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.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.

'This volume reflects...some of the promise that interdisciplinary conversations hold for the future of the field.' - Verne A. Dusenbery, Pacific Affairs

ISBN: 9780333800461

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Weight: 576g

319 pages