Producing Diasporas and Globalization

Indian Middle-Class Migrants in Dubai

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2990230
AutoresNeha Vora (0009-0000-7615-2076, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen81
Número2
Páginas377-406
Fecha de publicación2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/anq.0.0010
OpenAlexW2041402722
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas45
Referencias citadas16

Through ethnographic examples, I explore two modes of diasporic subjectivity 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 diasporas, 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

Citizenship · Consciousness · Diaspora · Epistemology · Ethnography · Globalization · Invisibility · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy