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Indian Diaspora-Challenges in the 21st Century ANAND SINGH (University of Kwazulu/Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban, South Africa) 2009 Pages: 120 Size: 180x240 ISBN 81-85264-50-3 Binding: Hard Price: US $ 30/- Rs. 750/- (Special Volume of The Anthropologist - No. 4) Most of the papers that appear in this Special Edition of The Anthropologist were scheduled for presentation at the International Congress for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES) that was to take place in Kunming, China, from 15 to 22 July 2008. They would have been among the first set of papers under the banner of the Commission for Migration and Diaspora Studies - which sent out a call for papers that included broad areas of interest that linked up to what the Commission purports to stand for. However, the Congress did not take place because, seemingly, the pressure of the Olympic Games that was scheduled for the following month in Beijing and the protests against the Chinese occupation of Tibet that foreclosed on the Olympic Games, created problems for the Chinese state to deal with similar problems that were foreclosing on this ICAES event as well. Delegates to the Congress were insisting upon a forum to discuss the Tibetan issue as well as the issue of human rights in China itself. Many of us had considered this to be an ambitious call and least expected the Chinese authorities to accede to it. The Congress was, not unexpectedly, postponed under the guise of problems other than what was generally perceived to be the real causes of the postponement. The main reason that was being touted by the Congress organiasers was the issue of finance, but people were not convinced by this, especially since the conference organizers very readily reimbursed delegates for their losses on prepaid airfares or hotel accommodation if they could show proof of payment. CONTENTS
Editorial
List of Contributors
Anand Singh Contextualising Migration and Diasporic Studies in the 21st Century IUAES Commission on Migration
Ravindra K. Jain Reflexivity and the Diaspora: Indian Women in Post-Indenture Caribbean, Fiji, South Africa and Mauritius
Shobhita Jain Transmigrant Womens Agency in Global Processes: India and its Diaspora
Gerelene Jagganath Pattundeen Negotiated Identities: South African Indian Women Transnationals in Durban, KwaZulu Natal
Kara Somerville Marriage and Childbirth as Transnational Triggers: Homeland Attachments of Second-Generation Indo-Canadians
Rupam Saran In Between Indianness and Americanness: Second-Generation Asian Indian Youths in New York
Parmatma Saran Asian Indian Experience in the United States: Then and Now
Shanta Singh and Anand Singh Environmental Design, Crime and the Re-Racialisation of South African Society
Kalpana Hirala The Gujarati Hindu Community in Kwazulu/Natal
Goolam Vahed Caste, class and identities among Surtee Muslims in KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), c. 1880-2009
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