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India Beyond India: Dilemmas of Belonging
People’s transnational mobilities, their activities to build homes in their countries of residence and their connectivities have resulted in multiplicities of belonging to encountered, imagined and represented communities operating within various political contexts. Migrants and their descendants labor to form and transform relations with their country of origin and of residence. People who see their origins in India but are now living elsewhere are a case in point. They have been establishing worldwide home places, whose growing number and vibrancy invite reconsideration of Indian diasporic communities and contexts in terms of ‘India(s) beyond India.’ Issues of belonging in Indian dia...
Contemporary India and South Africa
This book deals with the legacies of the Indian experiences of migration and diaspora in South Africa. It highlights the social imaginaries of the migrants and citizens as they negotiate between a reconstructed notion of ‘India’ and their real present and future in the country of citizenship. Both South Africa and India have had a long history of group-based identity movements against exploitation around caste and race, intersecting with class, gender, language, religion and region. The combined history has allowed them to participate in novel ways in the global arena as regional powers. The book suggests that the question of identity concerns itself with exploitation and oppression of e...
The People Speak--
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Globalization
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Black - Woman - Worker
In 1984, a survey into the status of Black women factory workers in the Durban-Pinetown area was conducted by the Institute for Black Research. The empirical study in this book has three components: (1) The self-evaluations of Black women of their roles in the home and the work place, based on 988 interviews; (2) the attitudes of Black male workers to women in industrial labour based on 243 interviews; (3) the attitudes of employers to their women employees based on interviews with 15 management representatives. (DÜI-Hff).
Participation, Globalisation & Culture
This book presents the best contributions and some more invited papers of a Conference which was organised at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa by the Research Committee 10 - Participation, Organisational Democracy & Self-Management of the International Sociological Association, and the South African Sociological Association, from 1 to 5 October 2000. The nineteen contributions come from Africa, America and Europe and cover the topic in an interdisciplinary way. A major concern within the process of globalisation being democratic participation and cultural diversity. A critique of this process and alternatives to it are presented with a number of case studies. Contents: Dasa...
Summering in South Africa
The Author Spent 3 Months I The Summer Of 1992 In South Africa To Study The Present Status And Future Prospects Of The Indian South Africans. The Book Presents His Diary Recorded By His Regularly A Record Of His Meetings And Conversation With Indians There. Wealth Of First Hand Information And Untutored Reactions. Good For Further Study As A Basis.
