Sikh Diaspora Nationalism in Canada

Shahed, Kalam

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“…Axel (2001: 5) shows, for instance, that the 1984 attack by the Indian Army on the Golden Temple played a major role in the emergence of a Sikh diaspora consciousness. Interestingly, Axel also shows that it was the process of diaspora formation which produced the idea of the Sikh homeland, Khalistan , and not the other way around, as generally assumed in diaspora studies (see also Shahed, 2019).…”

Section: Actors Temporalities and Contexts Of Deterritorialization Within The Countries Of Settlementmentioning

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Towards a theory of diaspora formation through conflict deterritorialization

Féron

Voytiv

2021

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Building on different cases of conflicts in homelands triggering diaspora mobilization, we develop a theory of diaspora formation through processes of conflict deterritorialization. We argue that an armed conflict in the country of origin can trigger specific processes of diaspora formation in the countries of settlement and in the transnational space, depending on the actors involved and the particular context in both the home and host countries. We suggest that this specific non‐linear process of diaspora formation can happen at the individual and collective levels, and can both turn a migrant into a diasporic individual as well as mobilize diasporic individuals for collective action. This mobilization, we argue, builds on narratives about and from the homeland, the country of residence, and the transnational space, and can, in turn, lead to conflict autonomization in diaspora settings.

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Section: Actors Temporalities and Contexts Of Deterritorialization Within The Countries Of Settlementmentioning

confidence: 79%

Towards a theory of diaspora formation through conflict deterritorialization

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Voytiv

2021

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response

Waldinger

Shams

2023

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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The global dimensions of diasporic politics and state response have generated a large, interdisciplinary literature. Yet, scholars struggle to find the most productive conceptual tools, as one literature, at point of origin, studies emigration and the other, at point of destination, studies immigration. The transnational turn in the social sciences four decades ago propelled scholars to study cross-border political mobilization by viewing immigration and emigration as two sides of the same coin. This article provides a guide to this scholarship. We show how the political nature of cross-border movements creates and circumscribes conditions for diasporic political mobilization. We then identify the different types of cross-border political activities and the modalities of corresponding home state policies. We conclude by reflecting how the world today has changed since the geopolitical moment in which the transnational turn was born and what these changes mean for studying immigrant and emigrant cross-border politics. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 49 is July 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Sikh Diaspora Nationalism in Canada

Abstract: A collective memory of the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial periods in

Cited by 2 publications

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Towards a theory of diaspora formation through conflict deterritorialization

Towards a theory of diaspora formation through conflict deterritorialization

Cross-Border Politics: Diasporic Mobilization and State Response

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