scholarly journals Movements across Borders: South Asian / Indian Diaspora Youth in Scandinavia

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rashmi Singla
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The Self ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Second Wave

The article explores social psychological aspects concerned with diasporic relationships among the South Asian diaspora in Denmark and is a follow up of a project conducted in the mid-nineties. The first wave focussed on the intergenerational relations within the double challenge perspective dealing with age transition and ethnic belonging while the second wave focuses at the relationships across the borders within a theoretical framework of life course perspectives combined with diaspora conceptualisations. In-depth interviews were conducted and analysed through meaning condensation. The gendered experiences of the young adults perceived as active actors indicate reinterpretation of the self, others and home. The results depict that the young adults‘ relationships involve both the country of origin and the Danish welfare society, though refutes the myth of return, in spite of Denmark turning increasingly restrictive in migration policies in the past years. How does moving across the geographical borders affect the relationships of diaspora members both here– in the country of residence and there- in the country of origin? The article delineates some of the processes through gendered experiences of the young adults perceived as active actors based on an empirical longitudinal study. The results indicate transformations in belongings and longings indicating reinterpretation of the self, others and home in context of exclusion processes at various levels.

scholarly journals Diasporic Relationships and Processes: South Asian young adults in Denmark

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashmi Singla
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Depth Interviews

Diasporic Relationships and Processes: South Asian young adults in Denmark. The article explores social psychological aspects concerned with diasporic relationships among the South Asian diaspora in Denmark and is a follow up of a study conducted in the midnineties. The first wave focussed on the intergenerational relations within the double challenge perspective dealing with age transition and ethnic belonging while the second wave focuses at the relationships across the borders within a theoretical framework of life course perspectives combined with diaspora conceptualisations. In-depth interviews were conducted and analysed through meaning condensation. The gendered experiences of the young adults perceived as active actors indicate reinterpretation of the self, others and home. The results depict that the young adults' relationships involve both the country of origin and the Danish welfare society, though refutes the myth of return, in spite of Denmark turning increasingly restrictive in migration policies in the past years.

scholarly journals An existentialist reading of K.S. Maniam’s ‘The Return’

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Saroja Dhanapal
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The Novel ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Raja Rao ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
History Of ◽  
Existential Perspective

According to Peyre (1948:21), the fathers and forefathers of existentialism were mostly Germans, but it was adapted and transformed by the French and was re-exported to the rest of the world. Peyre’s inference reduces the history of existentialism to a nutshell. Existentialism can be defined as an intellectual movement that reflects all aspects of modern life. In literature, this theory acts as a useful approach to analysing literary works in order to make sense of the complexities, contradictions and dilemmas surrounding the characters. The purpose of this research paper is to study the novel of Subramaniam Krishnan, popularly known as K. S. Maniam, an Indian Malaysian academic and novelist, from an existentialist perspective. His novels deal with the lives and problems of the post-colonial Indian Diaspora in Malaysia. In 2000, he received the Raja Rao Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature of the South Asian Diaspora. His first novel ‘The Return’ is an autobiographical novel which deals with cultural struggle and cultural identity. This novel will be analysed from an existential perspective. 

scholarly journals Cricket, an oddity in the Arab-Gulf lands or a mirror of an enduring South Asian diaspora?

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
RADHIKA KANCHANA
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
South Asian Community ◽  
Arab Gulf ◽  
The Relationship

The article highlights the apparent anomaly of the rise of cricket in the Arab-Gulf region. It argues that the evolution of cricket in the six Gulf Cooperative Council countries (GCC) from essentially an expatriate sport to its status today, with evident strengths and weaknesses, reflects the quality of the consolidation of the South Asian community, and especially of the Indian diaspora. The relationship between sports and the diaspora remains relatively unexplored. Using an empirical and comparative method, the paper adds to the current literature by studying the link between cricket and the diaspora in the Gulf region.

Australianama

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Indian Ocean World

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people. Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.

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