Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora

by Peter van der Veer (Editor)

Overview

Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812232592
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/1995
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination
1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities
2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji
3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836-1885
4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad
5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space
6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade
7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965-1990
8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain. 197
9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British Asian Women in the Diaspora

Contributors
Index