Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations

This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.

As immigration policies and asylum politics are not static, this book studies how migration often leads to households that are composed simultaneously of 'citizens', 'visitors' and 'illegal foreigners'. In studying Punjabi transnationalism, this book records how it has impacted Indian transnationalism and creates a holistic picture about the Punjabi diaspora.Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations studies Punjabi transnational life from perspectives that have relevance for contemporary policy, planning and governance. It analyses the spatially widespread, integrated and complex Punjabi diaspora while reflecting its vulnerability in an increasingly globalized world. Besides an overarching introduction and a historical overview, this book covers shifting contours of international migration, social structure and organizational links, the interrelationship between education and migration, and family networks of the Punjabi emigrants.