Transnational South Asians: The Making of a Neo-Diaspora

by Susan Koshy, S. Radhakrishnan

Overview

This volume examines the interrelationship between South Asian diaspora and globalization. It shows how the international division of labor has been redrawn by labor migrations from South Asia, how paradigms of the 'brain drain' have been supplemented by new models of the 'brain circuit', and how the construction of new transnational public spheres has altered cultural flows between the developed and the developing world. The volume highlights how South Asian diaspora is of pivotal importance because the migration it encompasses spans the rise of global modernity. The essays look at the practices of political organization, civic participation, social networking, religious activity, cultural production and consumption, commemoration, celebration, marriage, sexual relationships, family organization, and economic activity through which displaced communities reconstruct themselves in displacement. They focus on diasporic subjects who have been overlooked, forgotten, misrepresented, or marginalized in the scholarship on the South Asian diaspora, such as slaves, women migrants, queer desis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195695892
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	10/15/2008
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. R. Radhakrishnan is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Susan Koshy