ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on examples relating to research management, collaborative relationships and staff and student mobility from two tertiary level institutions, namely The University of Trinidad and Tobago and The University of the West Indies that contribute to diasporic bonding within and between segments of the Indian diaspora. For the purposes of the chapter, collaborations with India and the 'old diaspora' especially, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Fiji and Mauritius and the 'new diaspora' namely; Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom are considered. It examines the rationale for research collaboration from the perspective of two HEIs in Trinidad and Tobago and also provide examples of some of the collaborative relationships with India/Indian diaspora. The examples cited show that the collaborations were generally determined by comparative advantage in the discipline or focal area of research and funding guidelines and as such, not based on primarily establishing strategic alliances with HEIs in the Indian diaspora.
