ABSTRACT
Communal places provide the platform where people interact with each other and strengthen their communal networks in terms of social, cultural and economic reproduction. Diaspora consciousness is a particular kind of awareness said to be generated among contemporary transnational communities. South Asians in Kenya are not a monolithic ethnic group, but they are differentiated by religion and region of origin the so-called communities. In the Kenyan society as a whole the Asians are mainly members of the middle and upper classes. The vast majority of the Kenyan Asians are members of a community, but there are differences between the gendered age groups and the generations in this respect. This chapter discusses the additional way of dealing with diaspora is conceptualising it as a field of intersectionality. It explains the Boundary theory was developed mainly in social anthropology with its main exponent Fredrik Barth.
