Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism

ISBN-13: 9781138089143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 290 str.

Ajaya Kumar Sahoo; Bandana Purkayastha

Opis

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.

 

Spis treści

Introduction – Indian Transnationalism; PART I Migrant/Workers Lives; 1 Globality in Exceptional Spaces: Service Workers in India’s 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