9788188789733 - indian transmigrants: malaysian and comparative essay von ravindra k. jain (2 Ergebnisse)
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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Tamilian Labour and Malayan Plantations 1840-1938 3 Malaysian Multiculturalism and Indian Diaspora 4 Tamils on the Plantation Frontier in Malaysia Revisited 1998-99 5 Overseas Indians in Malaysia and the Caribbean 6 Culture Class and Mobility among Transmigrants A Comparative Exercise 7 Electronic Media… in Contemporary India and its Diaspora 8 Summary and Conclusion Includes Select Bibliography and IndexGiven the range intensity and magnitude of contemporary transnational migrations it seems entirely appropriate to designate this ?world on the move? as comprising from our point of view of Indian transmigrants The movement and global adaptations of this population are spread beyond single home and host societies to multiple locales both vertically and horizontally Ravindra Jain?s empirical studies in this book radiate from the vicissitudes of migrants from India to Malaysia on to those in the Caribbean and further on to Australia The spectrum of globalization in our times necessitates comparisons over still larger territories; therefore while focusing on particular Indian transmigrants East and West Jain?s perspectival vision encompasses the entire field of modern Indian diaspora As a pioneering and singularly wide-ranging narrative of the diaspora based primarily on the author?s fieldwork this book unravels facets of socio-cultural pluralism hybridization ethnic movements politico-economic mobility and global modernity over a vast territory The rich ethnographic detail is interleaved throughout with acute analysis and interpretation The methodology adopted here invites comparisons over a still wider terrain and is therefore of immense relevance to all students of globalization international migration socio-cultural transformation and political economy in the new millennium with special reference to the Asia-Pacific region 242 pp.
