Upadhya / Rutten / Koskimaki Regional Diasporas and Transnational Flows to India

Provincial Globalisation
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-63107-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 210 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

Patterns of international migration have produced complex transnational networks that directly link towns and villages in India to people and places abroad. Although the Government of India has forged a strong relationship with Overseas Indians, the ties that migrants and diasporic groups maintain with their home country is not primarily with the Indian nation-state but with their native villages or towns.

This book explores varying patterns of mobility, transnational ties, and flows of migrant resources to India. The transnational connection, and the diverse ways in which migrant and diasporic groups engage with their home regions, have myriad implications for the processes of change – are analysed in this book under the description ‘provincial globalisation’. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork, the case studies presented map the diversity of this expanding and fluctuating transnational social field, and the resources that move through it, by documenting migrant engagements in four regions of India known for high levels of international migration – central Gujarat, coastal Andhra, coastal Karnataka, and the Doaba in Punjab.

Analysing the movements, modalities, destinations, and outcomes of various material and immaterial resources that are sent by migrants to their regions of origin, the book presents new empirical data and develops theoretical insights into the consequences of international migration and the influences of the diaspora within India at a regional scale. It will be of interest to academics studying anthropology, geography, transnational and diaspora studies as it develops a fresh perspective on the connections between transnational migration and processes of development in contemporary India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Upadhya, Carol

Rutten, Mario

Koskimaki, Leah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Transnational Migration and Regional Transformations in India, Leah Koskimaki and Carol Upadhya

Part I: Central Gujarat

2. Diaspora Philanthropy from a Homeland Perspective: Reciprocity and Contestation over Donations in Central Gujarat, India, Natascha Dekkers and Mario Rutten

3. Not for Muslims Only: Transnational Associations in Central Gujarat, Sanderien Verstappen

Part II: Doaba, Punjab

4. Diaspora Philanthropy and the Globalisation of Education in Punjab: Conflicting Visions of Transnational Giving, Kaveri Qureshi

5. Promoting or Regulating? Diaspora Philanthropy, State Policy and the Fissures of Transnationalism in the Doaba Region, V. J. Varghese

Part III: Coastal Andhra Pradesh

6. Transnational Citizens as ‘Development Partners’ in Coastal Andhra, Sanam Roohi

7. A ‘Love for Land’: Transnational Property Investments in Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Carol Upadhya

Part IV: Coastal Karnataka

8. From Agrarian Landlords to Gulf Entrepreneurs: Transnational Investments and Political Interventions in Coastal Karnataka, Leah Koskimaki

9. Transnational Modernities and Networked Dreams: Social Welfare and the Rise of Local Elites among Beary Muslims of Coastal Karnataka, Sulagna Mustafi and Leah Koskimaki

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Upadhya is a social anthropologist, is Professor in the School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, India. She was co-director of the ‘Provincial Globalisation’ research programme (a collaboration between NIAS and the University of Amsterdam) from 2010 to 2015. She is co-editor (with A.R. Vasavi) of In an Outpost of the Global Economy (Routledge India, 2008).

Mario Rutten was Professor of Comparative Anthropology and Sociology of Asia at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He had extensive research experience on rural entrepreneurship and labour relations in India (Gujarat), Indonesia (Central Java), and Malaysia (Kedah State), and on Indian migrants in Europe (London). He was co-director of the research programme entitled Provincial Globalisation: The Impact of Reverse Transnational Flows in India’s Regional Town, from which this book originates. His previous publications include Rural Capitalists in Asia (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

Leah Koskimaki is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. Previously she was a research fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bangalore, India with the Provincial Globalisation Programme.