The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora

Daswani, Girish

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“…This approach led scholars to focus on the “making of home,” creativity and new forms of lives as collectives in the new place/space (Anthias, 1998; Constable, 2003, 2004). Furthermore, Daswani (2013) argued that “while “cultures” and “communities” are social constructs that spatially connect, and disconnect, people in real ways, its effects are never simply constructed but are also determined through relationships” (p. 31). However, Chakraborty (2019) suggests that “the idea of human dispersal has been central to the theorizing of diaspora.…”

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“…Migration and diaspora making happen in space, but they also matter in time, as they are a matter of time. Migration and diaspora studies predominantly focus on migration patterns, networks, and human movements (Anthias, 1998; Brah, 2005; Cohen, 2008; Daswani, 2013; Amrith, 2011; Clifford, 1994). Further studies have focused on the circulation of people, objects, and images between multiple spaces (home/host countries, multiple homes), on how they transfigure connections, the continuity of life and space, transform spaces, relationships, and memories.…”

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Thinking With Time: Reflections on Migration and Diaspora Studies Through Sri Lankan Tamil Marriage Migration

Maunaguru

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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Most of the migration studies or diaspora studies predominantly focus on migration patterns, human movements and their circulation over space. Recently a shift occurred focusing on nonhumans and immobility to analyze migration and diaspora. In this article by taking one of the features of Sri Lankan Tamil transnational marriage between Sri Lankan Tamils from Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan diaspora, I argue the importance of time and temporality to rethink about migration and diaspora studies. I show how different temporalities of things and humans that get (dis)entangled at different places and different points in the marriage migration process allow us to shift our lens slightly in future studies on migration and diaspora.

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Section: Potential and Rhizome: Diaspora And Migration Processmentioning

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Thinking With Time: Reflections on Migration and Diaspora Studies Through Sri Lankan Tamil Marriage Migration

Maunaguru

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…As in Fadi's story, returning home rarely turns out as anticipated, mainly because it exposes the illusion fostered among diasporas that two places exist simultaneously (Werbner 2013, 108). With time, “home” has grown into something different from what people have known or imagined, revealing their disconnection with the society they viewed as their homeland (e.g., Daswani 2013, 38; Tsuda 2003, 158). This realization engenders a fractured reality (Gilroy 1993, 126; see also Dayal 1996) and transforms diasporas’ double consciousness into what Sayad (1999) calls a “double absence,” the impossible ubiquity of migrant or diasporic lives.…”

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Homemaking as sensemaking

Lefort

2022

American Ethnologist

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As youth from the Levantine diasporas resettle in what is nominally their homeland, they compose narratives of home at the intersection of finding their place and the constant movement of their existence. Their homemaking efforts delineate places of belonging where these youth position themselves in a double relative location: the intersubjective (in relation to others) and the subjective (in relation to their projected life trajectory). While dwelling in places and wider societal landscapes, these relative locations are continually moving as the youth negotiate the meaning of their presence in the here‐and‐now, both diachronically (along the perceived direction of their life trajectory) and synchronically (toward others). This conceptualization questions the centrality of identity in the debates on migration and diasporas, and it makes visible how belonging emerges from the existential process of making sense of one's location between the self and others. [diaspora, home, emplacement, displacement, belonging, life trajectory, narrative, Lebanon, Canada]

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“…The 'Diaspora' concept, although currently attributed to many migrant groups (Daswani, 2013;Pries, 2013;Tölölyan, 1991) and often conflated with the term 'transnational community' (Ong, 2003, 86;Stanley-Niaah, 2009, 756) in its classical meaning refers only to those migrant groups that disperse due to a perceived or actual threat to its survival (Du Toit, 2003, 16;Tölölyan, 1996, 12; for more characteristics of Diasporas, see Clifford, 1994, Kearny, 1995, and Tölölyan, 2007. As I show in this article, Afrikaners indeed do this.…”

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Afrikaner Émigrés in Australia: Perception vs. Reality in Human Decision-Making

Jagtenberg¹

2017

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Based on ongoing ethnographic research among post-1994 first generation Afrikaner immigrants in Australia, I argue in this article that the majority of them base their decision to emigrate from South Africa on their perception of reality rather than on reality itself. The primary reason why they have left their home country was due to the 'affirmative action' policy, which they view as racist leading to 'reverse discrimination'. They believe that their children did not have a future in South Africa because of the fact that they have white skin. However, the preliminary results of this study show that in reality, only a very small number of participants have had an actual negative experience with affirmative action, and secondary sources demonstrate that white privilege still prevails in post-apartheid South Africa. Thus, the underlying, subconscious reason why Afrikaners are 1 This article was first presented at

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The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora

Cited by 8 publications

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Thinking With Time: Reflections on Migration and Diaspora Studies Through Sri Lankan Tamil Marriage Migration

Thinking With Time: Reflections on Migration and Diaspora Studies Through Sri Lankan Tamil Marriage Migration

Homemaking as sensemaking

Afrikaner Émigrés in Australia: Perception vs. Reality in Human Decision-Making

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