ABSTRACT

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations presents cutting-edge research on South Asian migrants written from a diverse theoretical and methodological perspective by leading scholars from around the world.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how South Asians negotiate and promote South Asian culture both within and outside the region while undergoing several challenges during the process of migration. The Handbook covers many dimensions of South Asian migrations written by leading scholars from across the world, including but not limited to sociology, history, anthropology, economics, political science, geography, education, psychology, literature, and cultural studies. Divided thematically into five broad sections the chapters critically analyse some of the pertinent issues of South Asian migrations:

  • Contextualizing South Asian Migrations
  • Migration, Language, and Identity
  • Politics of Migration and Development
  • Gender, Culture, and Migration
  • Migration, Diaspora, and Transnationalism

Addressing these issues from a multidisciplinary, multigenerational, multiracial, and multi-ethnic perspective, the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations fills a gap in the literature and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

South Asian Migrations

part I|66 pages

Contextualising South Asian Migrations

chapter 2|11 pages

South Asians in Britain

Migration, Settlement, and Conflict

chapter 5|11 pages

Distress-induced Migration in South Asia

Can Watersheds Help as Infrastructures of Desirable Immobility?

part II|58 pages

Migration, Language, and Identity

part III|71 pages

Politics of Migration and Development

chapter 12|11 pages

Reverse Capital

South Asian Migrants in Irregular Migration Contexts

chapter 13|21 pages

Staying On and “Immobility Capital”

Muslim Darzis (Tailors) in Post-partition Calcutta, 1947–1967

chapter 14|10 pages

Citizenship Entangle

Politics of Migration and Identity in and outside Assam

part IV|63 pages

Gender, Culture, and Migration

chapter 16|13 pages

South Asian Diaspora, Gender, and Transnational Lives

Epistemological Omission of Caste

chapter 17|10 pages

“Lost Conversations”

The Negotiations and Violations of Emotion Cultures Embedded in Migrant Journeys

chapter 19|11 pages

South Asian Transnationalism

Gender, Identities, and Virtual Spaces

chapter 20|10 pages

State, Refugees, and Fuzzy Borders

Dialectics of Reciprocal Integration among Tibetan Refugees and Indian Hosts in Ladakh

part V|62 pages

Migration, Diaspora, and Transnationalism

chapter 21|14 pages

Nepali Migration to Japan

From the “Vulnerable Invisible” to the “Precarious Visible”

chapter 24|10 pages

A Bidesh called Italy

Migration from Bangladesh to Italy and Beyond

chapter 25|13 pages

Italian Bangladeshis in Europe

Social Networks, Transnational Ties, and Intra-EU Mobility