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• Title: Producing Diasporas and Globalization: Indian Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai (Report)
• Author : Anthropological Quarterly
• Release Date : January 22, 2008
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 247 KB

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Introduction Academic investigations of diasporas and transnational networks often consider how economic factors enable forms of movement and identity. In the case of South Asia, scholars have traced how migrations based in indentured labor, trade, and employment opportunities, usually from the Indian subcontinent to the countries of the global North, have produced diasporic populations (Appadurai 1996, Leonard 1997, Raj 2003, Shukla 2001). The relationship between the economic and the diasporic, particularly in the South Asian context, is therefore usually cast as a causal one--diasporas exist because economic necessity made people move out of their "homeland" to another destination where they put down roots and produced a unique, hybrid form of cultural identity. (1) While South Asian diasporas are a significant presence in the literature on diasporas and transnationalism, it is notable that South Asians in the Gulf Arab countries, whose migration increased dramatically directly following the discovery of oil, are almost completely absent from this body of scholarship. In this article, I argue that this absence is the product of a set of assumptions about the nature of modern belonging and identity embedded within the concept of diaspora itself, particularly as it is used in the South Asian context, and often mirrored in the narratives and identifications of the subjects that academics consider to be "diasporic." In particular, I explore how what l call "domaining" practices result in the emergence of South Asians in the Gulf as non-diasporic.

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