Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations

by Ajaya K. Sahoo (Editor)

Overview

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations presents cutting-edge research on South Asian migrants written from a diverse theoretical and methodological perspective by leading scholars from around the world.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how South Asians negotiate and promote South Asian culture both within and outside the region while undergoing several challenges during the process of migration. The Handbook covers many dimensions of South Asian migrations written by leading scholars from across the world, including but not limited to sociology, history, anthropology, economics, political science, geography, education, psychology, literature, and cultural studies. Divided thematically into five broad sections the chapters critically analyse some of the pertinent issues of South Asian migrations:

• Contextualizing South Asian Migrations
• Migration, Language, and Identity
• Politics of Migration and Development
• Gender, Culture, and Migration
• Migration, Diaspora, and Transnationalism

Addressing these issues from a multidisciplinary, multigenerational, multiracial, and multi-ethnic perspective, the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations fills a gap in the literature and is an invaluable resource for students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032355450
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/27/2025
Pages:	372
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ajaya K. Sahoo is a Professor and Head of the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent edited books include the Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism (2022) and the Routledge Handbook of Asian Diaspora and Development (2021). He is also the editor of the Journal of South Asian Diaspora (Taylor & Francis/Routledge).

Table of Contents

Introduction – South Asian Migrations Part-I: Contextualizing South Asian Migrations Chapter 1. Irregular Migration in South Asia; Chapter 2. South Asians in Britain: Migration, Settlement, and Conflict; Chapter 3. The Complexity of Large-scale Migrations from South Asia to the Gulf; Chapter 4. Migration of Health Workforce in the South Asian Region; Chapter 5. Distress-induced Migration in South Asia: Can Watersheds Help as Infrastructures of Desirable Immobility? Part-II: Migration, Language, and Identity Chapter 6. South Asian Migrant Literature in the UK; Chapter 7. Racialized Language Ideologies Challenging the Educational Opportunities of South Asian Students in Hong Kong; Chapter 8. Migration and Domination: Gauda Saraswat Brahmanas of South Western India; Chapter 9. Language and Power in South Asian Transnational Migration: Case Studies from Pakistan; Chapter 10. Literary Perspective on Sri Lankan Migration to the United Kingdom Part-III: Politics of Migration and Development Chapter 11. Protection and Mobility in the time of Pandemic; Chapter 12. Reverse Capital: South Asian Migrants in Irregular Migration Contexts; Chapter 13. Staying On and “Immobility Capital”: Muslim Darzis (Tailors) in post-partition Calcutta, 1947-1967; Chapter 14. Citizenship Entangle: Politics of Migration and Identity in and outside Assam; Chapter 15. Motivational factors of Migration from Bangladesh to Italy Part-IV: Gender, Culture, and Migration Chapter 16. South Asian Diaspora, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Epistemological Omission of Caste; Chapter 17. ‘Lost Conversations’: The Negotiations and Violations of Emotion Cultures Embedded in Migrant Journeys; Chapter 18. Understanding Punjabi Mexican Family Life in America; Chapter 19. South Asian Transnationalism: Gender, Identities, and Virtual Spaces; Chapter 20. State, Refugees and Fuzzy Borders: Dialectics of Reciprocal Integration among Tibetan Refugees and Indian Hosts in Ladakh Part-V: Migration, Diaspora, and Transnationalism Chapter 21. Nepali Migration to Japan: From the ‘Vulnerable Invisible’ to the ‘Precarious Visible’; Chapter 22. Changing Contours of Nepali Diaspora in India; Chapter 23. Acculturation and Adaptation of Indian Immigrants in Portugal; Chapter 24. A bidesh called Italy: Migration from Bangladesh to Italy and beyond; Chapter 25. Italian Bangladeshis in Europe: Social Networks, Transnational Ties and Intra-EU Mobility; Index

Editorial Reviews

This rich, capacious collection of twenty-five essays accommodates a variety of important perspectives on South Asia’s culture of migration, the politics and economics of mobility, and the management of migration. Importantly, immobility is also factored into the analysis. Highly recommended.”

—Khachig Tölölyan, Professor of English, Wesleyan University, USA and Founding Editor, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies

 

“This Handbook draws on a global collection of scholars to illuminate the extent and diversity of the South Asian global diaspora, from more familiar stories of migration to the Gulf to less documented migrations of Tibet, Nepal and Assam. Interdisciplinary, historically and empirically grounded and theoretically diverse, this volume offers an indispensable guide for scholars and students alike.”

—Becky Taylor, Professor of Modern History, University of East Anglia, UK

 

“This Handbook is an invaluable resource. It will be essential for anyone interested in learning about the diversity and complexity of mobile South Asians who have created mixed communities in many countries in the twentieth century. Its authors represent a wide range of locations and orientations, providing a good sense of the perspective diversity that animates research, policies, and popular media concerning migration.”

—David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University, USA

 

“This is an impressive and comprehensive collection of essays that highlights the scope and scale of transnational migrations within South Asia and from South Asia across the world. Bringing together historical and contemporary case studies in an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume is rare in its wide-ranging collective look at both the better known emigrations out of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and making visible the less-known migration histories of Nepal, Tibet, and Sri Lanka.”

—Sana Aiyar, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

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