Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
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This book tries to examine the issues of international migration of Indians to the Persian Gulf countries in the era of globalization. It analyses the diverse situations in which Indian immigrant community work in the Gulf countries and the kind of problems they face. Not only does it discuss the consequences of migration on migrants and their families back home, it also addresses their issues and concerns after returning back to the homeland. By way of doing ...
The Indian diaspora today is one of the largest diasporas in the world. They form a strategic resource in intellectual, economic and cultural spheres besides being goodwill ambassadors of India in the land of their adoption. Recent developments in the fields of communication and transportation technology have facilitated the linkages between India and the Indian diaspora. The essays included in this volume examine the historical context of Indian emigration, the ...
This book offers rich insights into the historical processes, dynamics of contemporary global forces and influences on identity issues, generational differences, and issues arising in the Indian diaspora. The first section addresses the issues of struggle for retention of cultural identities of Indians in the old diasporic countries. The second section focuses on the contemporary context of migration of Indians to the developed countries and their contribution to ...
The Indian diaspora has developed institutions, orientations, and patterns of living specific tot he institutional structures and socio-political contexts of different hostlands. ?These patterns have been marked by the influences of the hostland culture as well as by relations with the homeland. This book examines different aspects of the Indian diaspora. Studying the transnational nature of the middle class Indian immigrants, it emphasises that they have the ...
India is relatively a latecomer to the very concept of globalisation and have only embarked towards this journey around fifteen years ago… The impact of this globalisation embrace are still being playing out although certain trends are now beginning to become apparent. The present book deals with an interesting collection of essays by specialist scholars on different aspects of sociological perspectives on globalisation. The book will be useful not only to ...
The book brings together research, critical analysis, and new areas of investigation in the discipline of sociology. The topics included in the book are education, development, NGOs, gender, environment, Diaspora, philanthropy, ethnicity and identity. The book is useful not only for sociologist but also for social anthropologist, political scientists, demographers, NGOs, and scholars interested in research on voluntary sectors.
Although there have been some discussions about 'diaspora' in the past, this has been more pronounced in the intellectual and public domain during the last decade of the 20th century. Why has 'diaspora' attracted such scholarly interest only recently? Who are the protagonists who have made important contributions to the field? Essays provides some answers by focusing on themes such as immigration, transnationalism, ethnicity, identity, religion, politics, ...
The concept of diaspora has been much debated during the past decade in terms of the essential and additional features that go with it, arguing which groups or communities could beuld not be designated as diaspora. The Indian diaspora today, with a strong community constituting more than 20 million and spreading across a hundred countries, continues to grow in size and making its transnational presence felt. This collection of essays traces some of the plurality ...
Over the past thirty years, the sociological study of ageing has progressed from being a narrowly focused and modestly sized, problem-oriented sub-field of disciplinary inquiry to its current status as a distinct, extremely wide-ranging endeavour that deals with many aspects of older people's economics, social and cultural lives. This volume brings together a broad range of theoretical essays and specific case studies by some of the eminent scholars in the field. ...