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Producing Diasporas and Globalization: Indian Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai

Date

2008

Authors

Neha Vora

Abstract

Through ethnographic examples, I explore two modes of diasporic subjectiv- ity that I observed among middle-class Indian migrants in Dubai-racial consciousness and consumer citizenship. However, I argue that the alignment of academic and diasporic informants' understandings of mutually exclusive domains such as culture, nation, economy, and state lead to the relative invisibility of this large population in most literature on South Asian diaspo- ras, and I point to a need to theoretically and methodologically begin our anthropological research with how and when domains become distinct for migrant subjects, rather than taking them as a priori forms.

Journal title

Anthropological Quarterly

Volume

81

Issue

2

Page numbers

377-406

Publisher

The George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research

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Economic sectors

General relevance - all sectors

Target groups

Researchers

Geographical focuses

India and Regional relevance

Spheres of activity

Anthropology

Languages

English