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Reddy, Vanita. "Femme Migritude." Minnesota review 2020, no. 94 (May 1, 2020): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8128421.

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This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which Africa is the site both of diaspora and of homeland. More important, it shows that Patel’s queer femininity unsettles a diasporic logic of racial exceptionalism. This logic aids and abets a (black) native/(South Asian) migrant divide in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Patel’s femme migritude, as I call it, draws on nonequivalent histories of black and Asian racialized dispossession to construct a mode of global-South, cross-racial political relationality.

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Gopinath, G. "Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion." positions: east asia cultures critique 5, no. 2 (September 1, 1997): 467–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-5-2-467.

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King, Bruce, and Susheila Nasta. "Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain." World Literature Today 77, no. 1 (2003): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40157853.

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Rastogi, Pallavi. "When East Meets East: Framing the Sino-South Asian Diaspora." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 44, no. 1 (March 2009): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989408101650.

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Singh, Nishikant, and Priyanka Koiri. "Migration, diaspora and development: impressions from India." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 12, no. 4 (September 3, 2018): 472–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-12-2016-0044.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual overview of potential diasporic influence in India by Indian diaspora and to outline a wide spectrum of policy interventions for better utilisation of diasporic resources, which are under-exploited.Design/methodology/approachThis paper used a systematic review approach to analyze the vast empirical and theoretical literature, up to 2016, and to assess the different kinds of impacts of diaspora on the homeland. A list of top-tier journals in the field of international migration, diaspora and ethnic entrepreneurship was compiled. From there, each and every paper was identified, examined, coded and classified into high-level themes. These were then reviewed, analyzed and interpreted.FindingsIndian diasporic affair has undergone numerous changes since India’s independence. This study presents a conceptual framework on the role of migration and diaspora in the country of origin with a special focus on India and point out the possible directions for future studies.Research limitations/implicationsThe systematic review approach has a qualitative nature, in which the relevant literature was interpreted based on the authors’ domain knowledge and expertise.Practical implicationsAcademicians and policy practitioners can gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationships among the key influential factors in migration, diaspora and its developmental role in homeland, as presented in the conceptual framework in the study. Accordingly, policymakers will be able to develop effective strategies to leverage the positive impacts of diasporic role in India and the other South-Asian developing countries.Originality/valueThis systematic review synthesizes the findings reported in most recent publications and government reports and develops an integrated conceptual framework, anchoring on possible positive impacts of diaspora in homeland. This framework provides a visual diagram to practitioners for a better understanding of the relevant literature and assists researchers and policymakers in developing a new strategy for future diasporic affairs.

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KANCHANA, RADHIKA. "Cricket, an oddity in the Arab-Gulf lands or a mirror of an enduring South Asian diaspora?" Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, no. 28 (June 29, 2020): 121–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2020.28.007.

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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.

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Dr. Mirza Sibtain Beg. "Diasporic Sensibility in Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee." Creative Launcher 5, no. 6 (February 28, 2021): 229–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.5.6.32.

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Diaspora is a sort of displaced and dispossessed community or culture in different cultural setup. Various issues emanate from diaspora as ethnicity, migration, incompatibility and identity crisis etc. In recent times, a gaggle of Indian women writers have left their indelible mark on the sand of Diasporic Literature, some of the distinguished names are: Bharati Mukherjee, Kiran Desai, Meera Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri, Geete Mehta, Suneeta Peres de Coasta and Chita Banerjee Divakaruni etc. These writers have enriched Diasporic literature with their invaluable versatile writings by portraying the immigrant experiences. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has cemented a secure place at the Parnassus of South Asian Diasporic literature. Deeply rooted in cultural ethos, Divakaruni’s novels weave around myth, magic, reality, cross cultural impact, customs, and identity crisis etc. The novel The Mistress of Spices (1997) presents diasporic sensibility exploring and identifying the various kinds of problems faced by immigrants. The people come from different countries born and brought up in different cultural background and lose sheen in the glamour of pell-mell of western civilisation craving for identity. The paper is a humble attempt to explore the diasporic sensibility and gauge the immigrant experiences felt by the writer and carried through the characters of the novel forward.

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Adhikari, Hari R. "Growing up South Asian: A Brief Trajectory Drawn from South Asian Novels Targeted for Youths." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 1 (August 1, 2019): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v1i0.34447.

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This paper primarily presents the trajectory of growing up in South Asia drawing insights from the selected novels about South Asian youths (SA youths). In this process, the paper explores the political interest of the West in non-Western children and youths. The focus is on the exploration of whether contemporary youth literatures have still been reinforcing the image of SA youths as the Other of the European youths, or if there has been any significant change augmented by the recent phenomenon of global connectedness. By laying a framework of these forces for analyzing how they are reflected in the literatures for the South Asian youths by foreign, diaspora and home authors, this paper prepares a ground for further exploration.

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Leonard, Karen. "State, Culture, and Religion: Political Action and Representation among South Asians in North America." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 9, no. 1 (March 2000): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.9.1.21.

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In what ways, other than through aesthetics, is the “politics of diaspora” constituted? Pnina Werbner has suggested that, in the formation of diasporas, “real” politics might consist of “transnational moral gestures of philanthropy and political lobbying … grounded in ideas about a shared past and future.” Thus she urges us to interrogate the relationship between politics and art, or “real” politics and aesthetics, in diasporas and/or transnational communities (concepts not the same, but increasingly conflated in the literature: Vertovec 277).

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Davé, Shilpa. "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity, and South Asian American Culture. Vanita Reddy." MELUS 43, no. 2 (2018): 238–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mly004.

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Roy, P. "Reading Communities and Culinary Communities: The Gastropoetics of the South Asian Diaspora." positions: east asia cultures critique 10, no. 2 (September 1, 2002): 471–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-10-2-471.

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Khorakiwala, Muqarram. "Reflexive Identity Construction in South Asian American Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake." ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, no. 42 (November 9, 2021): 261–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.261-281.

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Cultural identity in contemporary diasporic communities is dynamic, multifaceted, and cyclical. In the age of reflexive modernity, it is imperative to think about new ways of conceptualizing the experience of individuals straddling multiple geographies. A model of identity for such individuals should not only explain the plurality of “being” but also the fluidity of “becoming.” In this article, the question of multiple and shifting identities of the four main characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s intergenerational novel, The Namesake, is explored using an interdisciplinary model from the field of business management based on Giddens’ theorization of reflexivity. The inward reflexive relationship between the “self” and the “other” through the discursive articulation of the ontological journey of the novel’s characters highlights the complex nature of diasporic identity construction.

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Bhatia, Nandi. "Diasporic Activism and the Mediations of “Home”: South Asian Voices in Canadian Drama." Studies in Social Justice 7, no. 1 (November 19, 2012): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v7i1.1058.

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Critical analyses of literatures of the Indian diaspora discuss the “home” of origin as a subtext and a site to which diasporas aspire to return even though it remains an unachievable ideal that is refracted through nostalgic retellings of a space that remains at best “imaginary” (Mishra 2007). Alternatively, some critics, as Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald point out, view diasporas’ relationship with the homeland in terms of “loyalty,” obscuring in the process the antagonisms that may arise depending upon one’s circumstances, antagonisms that produce “interactions” between homes of residence and those of origin (2012). In South Asian drama in Canada, many of the concerns regarding race, multiculturalism, job discrimination and violence against women and other marginalized groups are propelled by their links to the playwrights’ “home” of origin. With attention to selected plays, this paper will analyze how the networks between home and spaces of residence in multicultural Canada come alive on theatre stages through visual motifs, actors, props, and photographic collages, which confront the different trajectories of “home” that resurface in these plays. Through live scenes of imagination that speak to spectators, several plays under discussion in this essay expose how, while providing emotional sustenance for some, the baggage of “home” may also pose challenges in the home of residence. So the questions I raise are: How does home appear? To what end? And what does returning “home” teach us about the inequalities and injustices underlying the current global order?

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Crespo Gómez, Ana María. "Approaching 'Home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731.

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The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and the decline of ethnic identity in the female characters of Bharati Mukherjee's collection of short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it is generally accepted that diaspora entails a questioning of a sense of belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Bharati Mukherjee, "the price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation" ("Two ways to belong in America", 1996). This article seeks to contextualize the Indian diaspora in its roots and routes, proving an inextricable link with gendering of the concept of 'home' in Bhattacharjee (1996). The introduction is underpinned by a theoretical framework on diaspora namely South Asian female migrants in the United States, and an analysis of the Indian concept of nation, from which the literary assessment departs.

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Dhanapal, Saroja. "An existentialist reading of K.S. Maniam’s ‘The Return’." Journal of English Language and Literature 2, no. 1 (August 30, 2014): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v2i1.26.

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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.

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Ahsan, Murad, and Maryam Raza. "THE DISCERNMENT OF SUBALTERNITY IN MAPS FOR LOST LOVERS BY NADEEM ASLAM." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 03, no. 03 (September 30, 2021): 410–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i3.265.

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The research paper aims to explore the theory of Subalternism by Gayatri Spivak in Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam. The objective of the research is to unravel the streaks of hybridity and alienation in second generations residing in the diaspora. The study is undertaken with the lens of subalternity to delineate identity exploration, cultural hybridity, and insights of immigrants who struggle within their fluidity of identity. The study fills the gap in research by unmasking cultural subalternity in Aslam’s novel which has not been critically studied in such a manner hitherto. It targets the multicultural society where immigrants face racial, stereotypical notions and internalize their individuality. Subalternity and Cultural Hybridity, with a specific focus on conservative fundamentals of naturalized hypocritical culture, is the tool for the research paper. The study highlights the significance of Post-Colonial literature, which manifests the dichotomy of a lack of identity for immigrants residing abroad as a minority & a simultaneous prevalence of roots. It is qualitative research with a specific focus on the grounded theory pattern. It is a non-inter disciplinary research. Keywords: Diaspora, Cultural Identity, Subalternity, Alienation, South Asian Literature, Post-Colonial Literature.

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Majumder, Auritro. "“Language and the Periphery” Response to Book Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 3 (September 2022): 424–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.14.

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AbstractAuritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston. He is the author of Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and currently chair of the South Asian and Diasporic Languages, Literatures and Cultures forum of the Modern Language Association.

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Hand, Felicity. "“Picking up the crumbs of England”: East African Asians in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s autobiographies." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (June 25, 2016): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416652646.

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Ugandan-born journalist, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has published two autobiographical works: No Place like Home (1995) and The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food (2008). The former is an account of her childhood and adolescence in Uganda up to the expulsion of the Asian community in 1972. The latter work is a highly unusual combination of autobiography combined with no less than 113 recipes, each of which highlights a specific person, period, or event in her memoir. While No Place Like Home responds to the accepted principles of autobiographical writing, The Settler’s Cookbook defies generic classification and is perhaps the author’s own way of depicting the Asian community, sandwiched between two communities, the Europeans and the Africans. In this article I propose to focus on Alibhai-Brown’s critical stance towards her community in her analysis of the social and political reasons for the negative image of the Asian in East Africa, as reflected in the first part of my title. Despite her frank observations on the endogamic nature of her community, she also pays tribute to the many Asian women who tried to build bridges between communities, a difficult task considering the constraints placed on female agency. As she states in The Settler’s Cookbook, “[t]o be an Asian woman in the 1950s in East Africa must have been both exhilarating and confusing” (2008: 151). Alibhai-Brown’s work, written in the diaspora and with the benefit of hindsight, has unravelled many of the paradoxes of the ambiguous position of the South Asian community in East Africa.

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KRUGER, LOREN. "Introduction: Diaspora, Performance, and National Affiliations in North America." Theatre Research International 28, no. 3 (October 2003): 259–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883303001123.

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Although current theories of diaspora argue for a break between an older irrevocable migration from one nation to another and a new transnational movement between host country and birthplace, research on nineteenth- as well as twentieth-century North America demonstrates that earlier migration also had a transnational dimension. The cultural consequences of this two-way traffic include syncretic performance forms, institutions, and audiences, whose legitimacy depended on engagement with but not total assimilation in local conventions and on the mobilization of touristic nostalgia in, say, Cantonese opera in California or Bavarian-American musicals in New York, to appeal to nativist and immigrant consumers. Today, syncretic theatre of diaspora is complicated on the one hand by a theatre of diasporic residence, in which immigrants dramatize inherited conflicts in the host country, such as Québécois separatism in Canada, along with problems of migrants, among them South Asians, and on the other by a theatre of non-residence, touring companies bringing theatre from the home country, say India, to ‘non-resident Indians’ and local audiences in the United States.

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Alessandrini, Anthony C. "“My Heart’s Indian for All That”: Bollywood Film between Home and Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10, no. 3 (December 2001): 315–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.10.3.315.

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In the spring of 1995, I had just begun to work on issues having to do with the global reception of Indian popular film.2 I was particularly interested in the consumption of Bollywood films in South Asian diasporic communities and was doing some preliminary research in Iselin, a small town in central New Jersey, with a large and thriving “Little India” neighborhood. Since I was also interested in the changes taking place in the Indian popular film industry itself, I had been following the case of Mani Ratnam’s film Bombay, which had been released earlier that year, in Tamil and Hindi, to a mix of acclaim and controversy in India. Because the film deals with the communal violence that gave rise to rioting that shook Bombay in 1992 and 1993, some authorities were concerned that screening the film in areas experiencing communal tensions might lead to more violence. Consequently, the film had been temporarily banned in several parts of India, including Hyderabad and Karnataka and, as of April 1995, had not yet been screened in Bombay itself (Niranjana, “Banning Bombayi” 1291–2). But at a party that spring, I found myself discussing the film with a colleague who had come from Bombay to study comparative literature at Rutgers. Bombay was quite an interesting film, she assured me, and I should watch it as part of my research. I must have looked puzzled, for she then added, “We found a copy on video in Iselin last week.”

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LAU, LISA. "Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 2 (March 2009): 571–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x07003058.

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AbstractThis article discusses the perpetration of Orientalism in the arena of contemporary South Asian literature in English: no longer an Orientalism propagated by Occidentals, but ironically enough, by Orientals, albeit by diasporic Orientals. This process, which is here termed as Re-Orientalism, dominates and, to a significant extent, distorts the representation of the Orient, seizing voice and platform, and once again consigning the Oriental within the Orient to a position of ‘The Other’. The article begins by analysing and establishing the dominant positionality of diasporic South Asian women writers relative to their non-diasporic counterparts in the genre, particularly within the last half decade. It then identifies three problems with the techniques employed by some diasporic authors which have exacerbated the detrimental effects of Re-Orientalism; the pre-occupation with producing writing which is recognisably within the South Asian genre, the problem of generalisation and totalisation, and the insidious nature of ‘truth claims’.

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Saha, Anamik. "Funky Days Are (Not) Back Again: Cool Britannia and the Rise and Fall of British South Asian Cultural Production." Journal of British Cinema and Television 17, no. 1 (January 2020): 6–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0505.

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This article explores the conditions that led to the rise and fall of British South Asian cultural production. Following a high point in the 1990s when for the first time a South Asian diasporic presence was felt in British popular culture, across television, film, music, literature and theatre, Asians have now returned to the periphery of the cultural industries. But this is not a simple case of British Asians falling in and out of fashion. Rather, as this article explores, British Asian cultural producers were enabled but then ultimately constrained by shifts in cultural policy (and specifically ‘creative industries’ policy) and, more broadly, by the politics of multiculturalism in the UK and beyond. In particular, it focuses on the moment of New Labour and ‘Cool Britannia’ as a significant cultural and political moment that led to the rise and subsequent demise of British Asian cultural production. Through such an analysis the article adds to the growing body of work on race and production studies. It demonstrates the value of the historical approach, outlined by the ‘cultural industries’ tradition of political economy, which is interested in how historical forces come together to produce a particular set of institutional and social arrangements that shape the practices of British Asian creative workers. While the article foregrounds television and film, it explores the field of British Asian cultural production more broadly and, in doing so, marks the ascendency of the ‘diversity discourse’ that characterises cultural policy in the present day.

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K, Ajith. "Nomads of the Twenty-first Century: Displacement and Repatriation in Temporary People." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 3 (March 28, 2019): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i3.7562.

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The term Diaspora has presumed different dimensions with the emergence ofpostcolonial literatures. Writers like Salman Rushdie, V.S.Naipauland JhumpaLahiri enrich the genre by including thoughts and experiences of the displaced and marginalized in their writings. Immigrant writings problematize the concepts home, homeland, identity and belongingness in transnational and national lands. Problems of migrants, from the third to the first world and from one state to another within a nation, were expanded to a global perspective with immigrant writings.Such works concentrate on the position of a subject in an alien culture, loss of identity and isolation witnessed by communities who are displaced from their homelands either by choice or by force. Deepak Unnikrishnan’s debut novel Temporary People, published in 2017, winner of the Restless Books Prize for new immigrant writing, narrates the fragmented lives of the guest workers of the United Arab Emirates who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea. Joining the row of Benyamin’s Goat Days, a novel about the enslavement in Saudi Arabia, Temporary People explores the experience of immigration,identity and exile in the Gulf and India from a South Asian perspective. Deepak Unnikrishnan portrays the cruel realities around the borders and the homelessness of living in a foreign land. This paper aims to analyze Temporary People as a novel belongs to the genre of Diaspora literature and its portrayal of displacement and repatriation.

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Foster, Christopher Ian. "“Leave to quit boundaries”: Danger, precarity, and queer diasporas in the South Asian Caribbean." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 57, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 31–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1866259.

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Bhanot, Kavita, and Balvinder Banga. "‘Writers Kavita Bhanot and Balvinder Banga in conversation: South Asian diasporic literature, culture and politics’." South Asian Popular Culture 12, no. 2 (May 4, 2014): 123–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2014.937025.

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Sarker, Sonita. "Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (review)." Callaloo 25, no. 2 (2002): 697–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2002.0099.

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Kalu, Anthonia C. "Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (review)." Africa Today 50, no. 1 (2003): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/at.2003.0059.

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Livingston, Robert Eric. "Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas (review)." Research in African Literatures 33, no. 4 (2002): 219–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2002.0111.

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Griffin, Gabriele. "Questions of mobility and belonging: diasporic experiences queering female identities in South Asian contexts." Textual Practice 25, no. 4 (August 2011): 731–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2011.586778.

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Kuo, H. J. "Revisiting Adultery: The Bodies of Diasporic Female Adulterers in South Asian Immigrant Narratives." Contemporary Women's Writing 8, no. 2 (April 18, 2014): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpu003.

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Lau, Lisa. "The language of power and the power of language." Power and Narrative 17, no. 1 (October 30, 2007): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.17.1.05lau.

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This article will discuss the complexity of positionality and the implications of writing in the English language in a South Asian context. Given the postcolonial heritage of South Asia, contemporary authors producing literature in English find themselves confronted with both tremendous opportunity as well as tremendous controversy. Literature has become a product in the circuit of culture, and the concluding sections will therefore discuss and explore how writers, and particularly diasporic writers, using English (as opposed to the other languages in India) are able to seize a disproportionate amount of world attention and consequently, through their choice of language, gain the power to make their presentations and representations dominant and prevalent in terms of distribution and influence.

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Rodríguez-Silva, Ileana M., and Laurie J. Sears. "Introduction: Thinking Comparison with the Politics of Storytelling." positions: asia critique 29, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8722743.

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This article highlights the overall aims of the special issue, which reconceptualizes island worlds as situated historical places, that is, islands and their networks as spaces that come to life through the multiple and contested meanings constantly attached to them, formed in the milieu of overlapping and competing European, US, and Southeast Asian empires and diasporas. By investigating the forms and politics of storytelling in the island South and Southeast Asia, along with parallel and intersecting formations in the Caribbean and diasporic Asian America, this article underlines the two scholarly interventions of the special issue in the study of world making: (1) it refashions the notion of comparison to move away from the project of “knowing”—habitually constituted through a top-down gaze aimed at assessment and measuring, which consequently leads to the formation of hierarchies, categories of containment, and reductionism—and to unearth forms of comparison emerging from local environments and local knowledge; and (2) in thinking of storytelling events or inscriptions as situated testimonies (i.e., identifying the politics of location of a telling), it centers affect and emotion as the means for unraveling and connecting different, contesting registers of experience.

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Park, J. N. H. "Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture; The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance." American Literature 82, no. 4 (January 1, 2010): 853–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-055.

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Schnepel, Ellen M. "East Indians in the Caribbean." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 73, no. 3-4 (January 1, 1999): 83–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002579.

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[First paragraph]Transients to Settlers: The Experience of Indians in Jamaica 1845-J950. VERENE SHEPHERD. Leeds, U.K.: Peepal Tree Books, 1993. 281 pp. (Paper £12.95)Survivors of Another Crossing: A History of East Indians in Trinidad, 1880-1946. MARIANNE D. SOARES RAMESAR. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago: U.W.I. School of Continuing Education, 1994. xiii + 190 pp. (Paper n.p.)Les Indes Antillaises: Presence et situation des communautes indiennes en milieu caribeen. ROGER TOUMSON (ed.). Paris: L'Harmattan, 1994. 264 pp. (Paper 140.00 FF)Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora. PETER VAN DER VEER (ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. vi + 256 pp. (Cloth US$ 39.95, Paper US$ 17.95)In the decade since 1988, Caribbean nations with Indian communities have commemorated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of East Indians to the West Indies. These celebrations are part of local revitalization movements of Indian culture and identity stretching from the French departement of Guadeloupe in the Windward Islands to Trinidad and Guyana in the south. Political changes have mirrored the cultural revival in the region. While the debate so often in the past centered on the legitimacy of East Indian claims to local nationality in these societies where African or Creole cultures dominate, in the 1990s leaders of Indian descent were elected heads of government in the two Caribbean nations with the most populous East Indian communities: Cheddi Jagan as President of Guyana in October 1992 (after a 28-year hiatus) and Basdeo Panday as Prime Minister of Trinidad in November 1995. Both men have long been associated with their respective countries' struggles for economic, political, and social equality. Outside the region during the summer of 1997, fiftieth-anniversary celebrations marking the independence of India and Pakistan from Britain confirmed that Indo chic — or "Indofrenzy" as anthropologist Arjun Appadurai calls it (Sengupta 1997:13) - has captured the American imagination with the new popularity of literature, art, and film emanating from India and its diaspora.

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Hui Kian, Kwee. "Chinese Economic Dominance in Southeast Asia: ALongue DureePerspective." Comparative Studies in Society and History 55, no. 1 (January 2013): 5–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417512000564.

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AbstractAs the industrialization process in Western European countries took off in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they largely turned to Asia and Africa for raw materials and other resources, as well as for markets of their manufactures. Various entrepreneurial diasporas, including the Indians, Lebanese and Chinese, were at the forefront to exploit these burgeoning economic possibilities, particularly in gathering local mineral and agricultural commodities and marketing European goods in the Afro-Asian regions. The Chinese activities in Southeast Asia stood out: they not only presided over the commercial realm but also organized mining production and cash crop agriculture in ways largely autonomous of the colonial regimes and Western entrepreneurs. How can we explain the dominance of the Chinese migrants and sojourners in the Southeast Asian economy from the 1850s to the 1930s? This paper repudiates the existing literature, which largely credits their economic presence to conscious immigration policies of the colonial authorities, and instead highlights the effects of a confluence of developments in the early modern period (ca. 1450–1800), including the sidelining of South Asians, West Asians, and regional trading communities in favor of the Chinese. A particular focus is the roles played by symbolic capital and mechanisms of advanced credit and spiral marketing, and how these gave the Chinese a comparative advantage over other trading groups.

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Karthikadevi, C. G., and C. Jothi. "Discourse of Psychoanalytic Insight and the Sufferings of Immigrants in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices." World Journal of English Language 12, no. 2 (March 15, 2022): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v12n2p72.

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South Asian novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of the most famous diasporic writers. She is also a great short-story writer, poet, and essayist. Her books have been translated into 29 languages including Hebrew, Dutch and Japanese. Her themes are relevant to South Asian Diasporic experience, History, Myth, Magic Realism and Cultural Diversity, Women Immigrants etc. Her works largely set in India and United States. There may be a galaxy of women writers. Most of her works give the insight and lively experience to the readers. Her poetic language in the text is far more appreciable. The reader may fall in love with the way of her expression and her beautiful poetic way of writing. She explores all her immigrant experiences through her writing. She gives life to her stories and fiction in such an excellent manner. She expresses her own pain and suffering especially through her women characters. Many autobiographical incidents are employed by her. So that she is distinguished from all other immigrant writers. Most of her works deal with the images of Bengali customs and habits. This paper is an attempt to deal with the psychoanalytic perspectives of the characters in Mistress of Spices and the predominant role of culture which focuses traumatic and sufferings of immigrants.

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Bigot, Corinne. "Diasporic culinary trajectories: Mapping food zones and food routes in first-generation South Asian and Caribbean culinary memoirs." Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55, no. 6 (November 2, 2019): 795–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2019.1680154.

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Gunew, Sneja. "“Mouthwork”: Food and Language as the Corporeal Home for the Unhoused Diasporic Body in South Asian Women’s Writing." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 40, no. 2 (June 2005): 93–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989405054309.

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de la Vega, Lia Rodriguez. "International Migration in South Asia: Notes on the “Illegal Migration” from Bangladesh to India." Oriental Anthropologist: A Bi-annual International Journal of the Science of Man 15, no. 2 (July 2015): 419–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0972558x1501500212.

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India is known for its huge diaspora of over 20 million people outside of the country, (MEA: 2002), whose growing importance has stimulated the development of a specific governmental structure to relate with it. At the same time India is known for receiving several migrants from different South Asian countries, such as Bangladesh, that is associated with “illegal immigration” and human trafficking. In turn, illegal immigration has been a burning issue in the North East of India associated with serious socio-political implications. Though India and Bangladesh depict different positions on the subject, they have put into practice a joint Coordinated Border Management Plan (CBMP), ned in July 2011, besides managing a ‘Task Force of Bangladesh and India for Rescue, Recovery, Repatriation and Integration of Trafficked victims/survivors’. The subject has precipitated questions on security in terms of, both, the states as well as the human beings involved/affected. Considering the above mentioned, this paper aims at analyzing the characteristic of illegal migration from Bangladesh to India by means of the analysis of documents and the review of literature on the subject. Taking up the dynamics of the contemporary positions of both the countires this research offers a critical analysis of the politically sensitive issue. Having signed an agreement on the enclaves issue and the renewal of the bilateral commerce, the two contiguous neihbours also highlight the need to monitor the border in a more effective way, and disable the policy of ‘vote bank’ amidst their other concerns. It seems worthy of attention therefore, that India and Bangladesh work for a more comprehensive approach to the question of security. It would be interesting to see if such an approach between them could also include on board, the issues connected with the development and empowerment of subjects and regions, both as a strategy and as a response to the subject.

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Brüske, Anne, and Caroline Lusin. "“One Continent/To Another”: Cultural flows and poetic form in the South Asian and Caribbean diasporas – and beyond." Atlantic Studies 13, no. 4 (September 23, 2016): 433–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2016.1229915.

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Ali, Ashna, Christopher Ian Foster, and Supriya M. Nair. "Introduction." Minnesota review 2020, no. 94 (May 1, 2020): 54–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-8128407.

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The first of its kind, this special focus section examines a relatively understudied concept and brings together new literary works and scholarship across continents and languages. Contemporary authors and activists like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, and Igiaba Scego contribute to a new literary, cultural, and political genre called migritude. Migritude initially indicated a group of younger African authors in Paris but has since expanded to include Europe beyond France, such as Britain and Italy, as well as South Asian and Caribbean diasporas. This body of work reveals intersections between complex histories of colonialism, immigration, globalization, and racism against migrants and highlights differences in region, class, gender, and sexuality that constrain the movement of many people. In an era characterized by openly belligerent nationalism and anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, this special focus section aims to unpack migritude cultural production in an international context to study and combat these violent trends.

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Livingston, Robert Eric. "BOOK REVIEW: Anuradha Dingwaney Needham.USING THE MASTER'S TOOLS: RESISTANCE AND THE LITERATURE OF THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORAS. New York: St. Martin's, 2000." Research in African Literatures 33, no. 4 (December 2002): 219–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2002.33.4.219.

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Kalu, Anthonia C. "BOOK REVIEW: Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney. USING THE MASTER'S TOOLS: RESISTANCE AND THE LITERATURE OF THE AFRICAN AND SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORAS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000." Africa Today 50, no. 1 (March 2003): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/aft.2003.50.1.139.

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Das Gupta, Monisha, Charu Gupta, and Katerina Martina Teaiwa. "Rethinking South Asian Diaspora Studies." Cultural Dynamics 19, no. 2-3 (July 2007): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374007080288.

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Kam, Chui Ping Iris. "Diaspora and identity: Perspectives on South Asian diaspora." Transnational Social Review 8, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 113–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21931674.2018.1425069.

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Maira, Sunaina. "South Asian women in the diaspora." Feminist Review 78, no. 1 (November 2004): 191–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400194.

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Rai, Rajesh, and Chitra Sankaran. "Religion and the South Asian diaspora." South Asian Diaspora 3, no. 1 (March 2011): 5–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2010.539030.

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Khondker, Habibul Haque. "South Asian Women in the Diaspora." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 34, no. 3 (May 2005): 271–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610503400326.

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Rege, Josna E. "Using the Master's Tools: Resistance and the Literature of the African and South Asian Diasporas. By Anuradha Dingwaney Needham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xii, 176 pp. $45.00." Journal of Asian Studies 60, no. 3 (August 2001): 826–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2700116.

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Dadswell, Sarah, and Graham Ley. "British South Asian theatres and the global South Asian Diaspora: Introduction." South Asian Popular Culture 7, no. 3 (October 2009): 161–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14746680903125465.

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