Judith Misrahi-Barak, Ritu Tyagi and H. Kalpana Rao, eds. Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives

Up until recently, the field of diaspora studies in India had overwhelmingly manifested interest in the “new diaspora,” the post-independence waves of migrations to Canada, the USA, Europe or Australia, and overlooked the “old diaspora” (Mishra 2007), a category referring to earlier waves of Indian...

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Autor principal: Lerouge, Valentine
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Publicat: Postcolonial Literatures and Arts 2025
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Up until recently, the field of diaspora studies in India had overwhelmingly manifested interest in the “new diaspora,” the post-independence waves of migrations to Canada, the USA, Europe or Australia, and overlooked the “old diaspora” (Mishra 2007), a category referring to earlier waves of Indian migration driven by the indentured labor system, which saw millions of Indians being forcibly transported to British, French, and Dutch colonies in the Caribbean, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the P...