Bridging imaginations : South Asian diaspora in Australia
The volume focuses on the South Asian diaspora in Australia, bringing out the significant impact of the diaspora on Australia's multicultural landscape and in furthering South Asian-Australian engagement. It shows the South Asian diaspora to be a dynamic community in transit, highlighting the achievements of the diaspora during the last decade. It discusses the complex and diverse aspects of the Indian diaspora there, as it comprises a variety of people: from colonial indentured workers to political asylum seekers and those in transnational marriages with students and high-end professionals. With case studies as of Bengali migrants there and their politics of nostalgia, it views the way the migrants negotiate culture and experiences. It comments on the problems of refugees and their experience of citizenship, narrating stories of asylum seekers --Publisher
Print Book, English, 2013
Published by Readworthy Publications in association with Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network, New Delhi, 2013