The conference will host academics from all over the world presenting challenging views on Indian Diaspora Studies. They will be covering subjects and topics from disciplines such as anthropology, economics, law, politics, sociology, geography, art and media, and history.
Over the course of the three days of the conference the following papers will be presented. Please note that these papers can be work in progress. A full overview of the bio’s of the authors and abstracts can be downloaded here
- Amrita Sen – Traditional livelihoods and survival crisis: the politics of biodiversity conservation in Sundarban, West Bengal
- Anita C. Nanhoe, Anita Chedi, Hemadrie D. Mathura-Dewkinandan and Sherita Thakoerdat – Acceptance of homosexuality among Hindustani in the Netherlands
- Anita C. Nanhoe, Danielle J.F.D. Kretz, Hemadrie D. Mathura-Dewkinandan and Sherita Thakoerdat – When marriage becomes a prison. The role of honor based mechanisms in cases of partner violence among Surinamese Hindustani in the Netherlands
- Anjana Sukumary – How Thai-Sikh diaspora students’ identity affects their participation in extracurricular activities at the university
- Annapurna Pandey – Women and Religion in the Indian Diaspora
- Anushyama Mukherjee – Understanding homeland/s and identities: a study of Barkas in Hyderabad
- Apoorva Nanjangud – The known unknown: The ‘Bollywoodized’ imaginary of India among twice migrant communities in the Netherlands
- Arundhati Sethi – Bleeding boundaries: mapping the destabilization of territorial regimes in Anup Singh’s partition film: Qissa: a tale of a Lonely Ghost
- Ashutosh Kumar – Indians against the indenture system
- Atinder Pal Kaur – Male migration and challenges to gender equality? A study of Doaba Region of Punjab
- Ayfara Herbonnet– Attitudes of Hindustani mothers towards child labour – The case of Nickerie Suriname 2017
- Brij Maharaj – Go home! Go home to Mumbai! The anti-Indian discourse in the post-apartheid era
- Chan E. S. Choenni – Indians and political marginalization; the case of Fiji, Guyana and Suriname
- Clelia Clini – Representing partition: a British Asian perspective
- Crispin Bates and Linajyoti Medhi – Worker’s resistance and the end of indenture in Assam
- Crispin Bates, Marina Carter, V Govinden – The abolition of Indian indentured migration in Mauritius
- Des Bobby Luthra Sinha – Of Ubuntu and the rainbow: how Indian South Africans create social institutions in the New South Africa
- Divya Balan – Re-reading the Banyan tree analogy: the everyday life of Indian diaspora in Europe
- Eviane Cheng Leidig – From Cyber-Hindutva to Ab Ki Baar Trump Sarkar: A Twitter analysis of Hindu diaspora support for the populist radical right
- Goolam Vahed – Gokhale, Polak and the end of Indian indenture in Natal, South Africa
- Heena Mistry – Settler citizenship and indigeneity: Indians overseas and the claim to British imperial citizenship, 1918-1940
- Indra Boedjarath – Cultural scripts of suicide in the Indian diaspora
- Jaswina Elahi – Little informal institutions: traditional dances of the Surinamese Hindustani Community
- Johann Salazar – The gift of diasporic citizenship: the overseas citizenship of India scheme as a tool for nation-building
- Joy Prakash Chowdhuri – Social inequalities, governance and social justice in India
- Jwala Rambarran – Migration, diaspora, bonds and Suriname’s economic development. Tapping into the wealth of the Hindustani diaspora
- Ka-Kin Cheuk – Diasporic formation, sustained transience, and indifferent survival: Indian Sindhi traders in a local Chinese market
- Kalpana Hiralal – Indentured women in South Africa. Labour, survival, resistance and abolition 1860-1918
- Kamini Maraj Grahame and Peter R. Grahame – Reconfiguring identity in a transnational world: Indo-Trinidadians and the construction of Indianness
- Kamni Kumari – Diaspora as soft power: a case study of Indian Diaspora in the US
- Kapil Kumar – Challenging the myths and distortions of indenture history: the suppressed realities
- Koushiki Dasgupta – Reconciling boundaries and identities: the world of Bengali intellectualism in early 20th century America
- Madhuri Prabhakar – Poetry as resistance: hybridity and the ‘third space’ of Indian diaspora
- Manidipa Mistri – Understanding Indian diaspora: lifting the veil of diasporic crisis of dual identity
- Manoranjan Mohanty – Transnational Indian diaspora engagement and development: the transilient Fiji- Indian diaspora engagement and assimilation in transnational space
- Margriet-Fokken – To be considered foreigners no longer? Hindustani claims to citizenship in Suriname 1873-1921
- Maurits Hassankhan – The end of Indian Indenture and its impact on Suriname
- Megha Wadhwa – Tales of business entrepreneurs and professionals: exploring the working experiences of Indian immigrants in Japan
- Mohammed A. Kalam – Indian diaspora entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley and IT hubs and startups in South India
- Nalini Moodley-Diar – Post-Mandela; Post-Apartheid; Post-Colour Bar; Post-Coolie! Challenging POSTS through institutionalised self-realisation of Indians in South Africa: a case study
- Nare Galstyan – Engaging stateless and state-linked diasporas: what role does the homeland play?
- Narinder Mokhamsing – Girmitiya Culture: Music and Language Trends in Indian diaspora
- Praveen Singh – Floriculture as an emerging tool for women empowerment: a case study of Himalchal Pradesh
- Prinisha Badassy – A tissue of lies: crimes of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent assault by Indian domestic servants, colonial Natal
- Purvi Mehta – Anti-caste activism by the Dalit diaspora in the United States, 1970-2000
- Rachel Kurian and Kumari Jayawardena – Ethnicity and class division in Sri Lankan politics: gains and losses for plantation workers in the post-indenture period
- Rana P. Behal – Labour resistance in indentured plantations in Assam valley
- Rewa Singh – Indo-Fijians in Fiji: their acceptance to Pacific way of life and retention of their cultural heritage
- Rita Cachado and Inês Lourenço – Hindu-Gujarati diaspora in Portugal: the case of Our Lady of Fatima devotion
- Romina Rossi – Thinking the “maternal”: a psycho-anthropological perspective on motherhood among Hindu migrants settled in Rome
- Roshni Sengupta – From karwa chauth to active Hindutva: Bollywood and the makings of a Hindu ‘designer’ diaspora
- Sadish Dhakal – F1 race (the other kind): how the industry of international education provides a pathway to permanent migration
- Saikat Ghosh – Is the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in India able to address its targeted audience?
- Sandip Mondal – Double-exposure of authoriality in The Guru
- Sarojini Lewis – Traces of Bhojpuri female migrants in Surinam, interpretations & explorations of archival photographs
- Satya Yadav – Diaspora, dedication and development (3D): Indian perspective
- Sheetal Bhoola and Anad Singh – Title: Gujerati women expatriates from the United Kingdom in contemporary South Africa, Durban
- Sherry-Ann Singh – Cultural nationalism and Hindusim in Trinidad
- Shubham Singh – Transnational ethnoscape of the contemporary Indian Jewish diaspora in Jael Silliman’s The Man with Many Hats
- Simant Shankar Bharti – Violence against women in India: an intersectional approach to human rights
- Sudheesh Bhasi – ‘Rough and tough’ pilgrims and ‘decent’ pilgrims: class and aspiration in a growing Hindu pilgrimage cult in Malaysia
- Susan J. Chand and David T. Chand – Practicing Indian culture in a foreign land: a case of national identity and bonding
- Tina Dulam and Philip Hans Franses – How to gain brain for Suriname
- Vidya Ramachandran – Privileged Hybrids: examining ‘our own’ in the Indian-Australian diaspora
- Vladmir Ferreira, Clementina Furtado, Andre C. Tolentino,Arlindo Fortes and Antonio de Graca – A nation born in the XV century: trajectories and trends of a migrated people
