Routledge Handbook of Indian Transnationalism

Introduction – Indian Transnationalism; PART I Migrant/Workers Lives; 1 Globality in Exceptional Spaces: Service Workers in India’s Transnational Economyi; 2 Skill Gap and Brain Drain for United States: Impact of Trump Executive Order on H1B and India; 3 From Students to Spouses: Gender and Labour in Indian Transnationalism; 4 Transnationalism and Return Migration of Scientists & Engineers from the United States to India; PART II On Culture and Identities; 5 Translocal Puja: The Relevance of Gift Exchange and Locality in Transnational Guyanese Hindu Communities; 6 Indian Music and Transnationalism; 7 Transnational Collaborations by Selected Contemporary Indian Dancers; 8 Revealing the Messiness of Transnational Identities: Second-generation South Asians in Canada; 9 Negotiating transnational identity among second generation Indian residents in Oman; PART III Political Engagement in Transnational Spaces; 10 Transnationalism and Indian/American Foreign Policy; 11 Constructing Hindu Identities in France and the United States: A Comparative Analysis; 12 Facing Strong Head Winds: Dalit Transnational Activism Today; PART IV Gender and Indian Transnationalism; 13 Experiences of Empowerment and Constraint: Narratives of Transnational Indian Women Entrepreneurs; 14 Indian Origin Women: Organising Against Apartheid; 15 Workers, families, and households: Towards a gendered, raced, and classed understanding of Indian transnationalism in Canada; 16 Is Migration a Ticket to Freedom? Exploring Sense of Freedom among Indian Women in Toronto; 17 Middling Tamil Migrant Workers and the Translocal Village in Singapore; PART V On Historic and Contemporary Networks in Transnational Spaces; 18 The Transnational Mobility of Indians in the time of the British Empire; 19 Layered Cities, Shared Histories: Gold, Mobility and Urbanity between Dubai and Malabar; 20 Emergence of Singapore as a Pivot for Indian Diasporic and Transnational Networks