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Yearning for faraway places: the construction of migration desires among young and educated Bangladeshis in Dhaka
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-289
ISSN: 1547-3384
Yearning for faraway places: the construction of migration desires among young and educated Bangladeshis in Dhaka
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-289
ISSN: 1070-289X
Yearning for faraway places: the construction of migration desires among young and educated Bangladeshis in Dhaka
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-289
ISSN: 1547-3384
Country Report: Indian migration to the Netherlands
CARIM-India is co-financed by the European University Institute and the European Union. ; This paper presents the past and present state of affairs regarding migration from India to the Netherlands. The Netherlands have never been a very popular destination for migrants from India. If we, however, include the Hindustanis in the so-called Indian diaspora, the Netherlands are home to the second largest Indian diaspora in Europe. The Hindustanis are the descendants of British-Indian indentured laborers who migrated to the Dutch colony of Surinam between 1873 and 1916, and who moved on to the Netherlands in particular during the 1970s and 1980s. At present, the "Indian diaspora" in the Netherlands includes approximately 160,000 Hindustanis and 21,729 Indians (first and second generation immigrants). This paper deals with all those with apparent (ancestral) connections to India. Two phenomena stand out and make the Dutch case particularly interesting for a study of Indian migration to Europe. Besides the presence of the relatively large group of Hindustanis, we are currently witnessing a remarkable increase in the immigration of Indian knowledge workers in the country. In practice, the two distinct categories of people of Indian descent have very little in common. This paper investigates these different categories of ("old" and "new") migrants and analyzes the implications of contemporary Indian and Dutch policies on Indian migration to the Netherlands and on processes of identity formation amongst these migrants of Indian origin. ; CARIM-India: Developing a knowledge base for policymaking on India-EU migration
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Stimulating Flexible Citizenship
In: Journal of citizenship and globalisation studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1-13
ISSN: 2450-8632
This paper explores the relationship between migration and integration policies in the Netherlands, diaspora policies in India, and the transnational practices of Indian highly skilled migrants to the Netherlands. We employ anthropological transnational migration theories (e.g., Ong 1999; Levitt and Jaworsky 2007) to frame the dynamic interaction between a sending and a receiving country on the lives of migrants. This paper makes a unique contribution to migration literature by exploring the policies of both sending and receiving country in relation to ethnographic data on migrants. The international battle for brains has motivated states like the Netherlands and India to design flexible migration and citizenship policies for socially and economically desirable migrants. Flexible citizenship policies in the Netherlands are primarily concerned with individual and corporate rights and privileges, whereas Indian diaspora policies have been established around the premise of national identity.
Stimulating Flexible Citizenship: The Impact of Dutch and Indian Migration Policies on the Lives of Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in the Netherlands
In: Journal of citizenship and globalisation studies, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 1-13
ISSN: 2450-8632
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between migration and integration policies in the Netherlands, diaspora policies in India, and the transnational practices of Indian highly skilled migrants to the Netherlands. We employ anthropological transnational migration theories (e.g., Ong 1999; Levitt and Jaworsky 2007) to frame the dynamic interaction between a sending and a receiving country on the lives of migrants. This paper makes a unique contribution to migration literature by exploring the policies of both sending and receiving country in relation to ethnographic data on migrants. The international battle for brains has motivated states like the Netherlands and India to design flexible migration and citizenship policies for socially and economically desirable migrants. Flexible citizenship policies in the Netherlands are primarily concerned with individual and corporate rights and privileges, whereas Indian diaspora policies have been established around the premise of national identity.
'Hunger has brought us into this jungle': understanding mobility and immobility of Bengali immigrants in the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 23, Heft 4, S. 396-412
ISSN: 1363-0296
We are the True Citizens of This Country
In: Asian journal of social science, Band 45, Heft 6, S. 666-692
ISSN: 2212-3857
Democracy has generally been understood the best remedy to prevent societal violence, as it gives different groups a channel to voice their interests and grievances. However, in this article, that focuses on the Chittagong Hills, which for many decades has formed one of the most violent spaces in Bangladesh, we argue that, in reality, democracy and violence can be two sides of the same coin. This is not to say that in Bangladesh, where full liberal democracy is not in place, ordinary citizens have no values and idea(l)s of democracy and citizenship. On the contrary, in order to make sense of the intricate connection between democratic idea(l)s, and violent imaginations and practices, we focus in particular on the process of what we call the vernacularisation of democratic politics. We connect this process to the appropriation of citizenship and nationalism, by ordinary but radically differently-positioned people, in their daily realities. We demonstrate that widely shared imaginations of Bangladeshi-ness, as Bengali-ness or Muslim-ness, and of Bengalis/Muslims as the true nation and citizens of Bangladesh, are intimately connected with popular understandings and practices of democracy, which are based on the exclusion of the not-genuine-Bengalis, with the legitimisation and continuation of violence, and the exclusion of ethnic minorities in the Chittagong Hills.
Introduction: Aspiring migrants, local crises and the imagination of futures 'away from home'
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 249-258
ISSN: 1547-3384
Introduction: Aspiring migrants, local crises and the imagination of futures away from home
In: Identities: global studies in culture and power, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 249-258
ISSN: 1070-289X
The Borders that Divide, the Borders that Unite: (Re)interpreting Garo Processes of Identification in India and Bangladesh
In: Journal of borderlands studies, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 95-109
ISSN: 2159-1229
Religious Identity, Territory, and Partition: India And its Muslim Diaspora in Surinam and the Netherlands
In: Nationalism & ethnic politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 155-188
ISSN: 1557-2986
Religious Identity, Territory, and Partition: India and Its MuslimDiaspora in Surinam and the Netherlands
In: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 155-188
ISSN: 1353-7113