(Re)membering diaspora: Uneven geographies of Indian dual citizenship

Linking mountain identities throughout the world: the experience of Swiss communities

“…However, the question of whether transnationalism necessarily weakens Nation-States has been discussed. 11 As a matter of fact, it has been proved that many transnational initiatives, such as networks of nationals located abroad, 12 reinforce national identities. Therefore, it is worth looking for specific practices which could illustrate a major alternative: the mobilization of symbolic resources and new forms of collective identities which could foster national and transnational identities at the same time.…”

Globalising knowledge networks: Universities, diaspora strategies, and academic intermediaries

“…They have also examined the implications these efforts have for both sending and receiving countries, and for members of the diaspora themselves (Dickinson and Bailey, 2007;Gamlen, 2013;Ho, 2011;McConnell, 2012;Mullings, 2011). Rather than taking the fact of the diaspora for granted, and examining the political processes through which they are mobilised, analysts influenced by the governmentality literature are concerned to understand how diaspora strategies constitute the diaspora as a particular kind of governmental category, and how it is that off shore citizens are constituted as particular kinds of political-economic subjects (Kalm, 2013;Kunz, 2012).…”

“…These strategies reflect attempts by international institutions, governments and other organisations to identify and harness the energies and resources of their offshore citizens in order that they are more likely to support the development aspirations of their former home country. Examples discussed in the academic literature include Australia (Hugo, 2006), Jamaica (Mullings, 2011), India (Dickinson and Bailey, 2007), New Zealand (Larner, 2007), and China (Yang and Welch, 2010), amongst others. These accounts show that whereas once the interest in diasporic contributions to economic development was confined to poorer countries, and focused largely on efforts to increase the flows of remittances or to encourage expatriates to return, today such initiatives are increasingly widespread and are promoted by international institutions and national governments alike.…”

Replacing the nation in the age of migration: negotiating South Asian identities in Toronto

“…For societies of origin, the South Asian diaspora's transnational activity resists or enhances the post-colonial nationalisms of South Asia. For instance, the call for the homeland of Tamil Eelam championed by many Sri Lankan Tamils is violently resisted by the Sri Lankan state, while much of the Indian diaspora, once a marginal and at times threatening figure for the post-colonial state, is today reconnected to the homeland through the figure of the "global Indian" (Dickinson & Bailey 2007;Varadarajan 2010). Toronto is today a central node in this dispersed and intricate diaspora that spans over one hundred countries (Maharaj 2003).…”