Socio-economic development and the demographic and epidemiological transitions: effects on psychosocial circumstances and lifestyles

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Raj S. Bhopal
Keyword(s):  
Trans Fatty Acids ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Haemorrhagic Stroke ◽  
High Heat ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
Psychosocial Status ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Epidemiological Transitions

Diabetes mellitus, CHD, and ischaemic, but not haemorrhagic stroke, are closely linked to rising affluence and the accompanying changes in life expectancy and in lifestyles. These changes take place in the context of the demographic and epidemiological transitions. These phenomena could explain the rise in diabetes, CHD, and stroke in populations including South Asians but not why the rates of these diseases exceed those in populations who are already at an even more advanced stage in these transitions. Changes in psychosocial status, including the stresses of migration, social change, and work patterns and lifestyle accompanying these transitions have been especially rapid in the South Asian diaspora. The recent high-heat cooking hypothesis, which proposes South Asians’ cooking styles produce atherogenic substances including advanced glycation products and trans-fatty acids, illustrates how affluence and behaviours might influence disease. Together, these general explanations set the stage to examine specific risk factors.

South Asian Diaspora

2019 ◽  
pp. 396-407
Author(s):  
Sam George
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asians ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Software Engineers ◽  
The Uk

South Asia accounted for more than 32 million emigrants worldwide. These figures do not include the Old Diaspora –when millions were taken to work as indentured labourers, losing all links to their ancestral homelands. Most early migratory interactions, initiated by foreigners who came for trade or conquest, took people out of this region, a people that did not venture far from home. The dispersion out of South Asia can be divided into three waves: the Old Diaspora (early to mid-eighteenth century), the New Diaspora (1940s to 1990s) and the Modern Diaspora (beginning in the early 1990s). This latest diaspora is marked by mass migration of software engineers to Western countries, especially the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia. South Asians are very religious and are less landlocked than people of other faiths in the region. The alienation that result from transplantation in religious and spiritual terms, make migration for South Asians a ‘theologising experience’. Many South Asians have joined the Christian fold in diasporic locations as they feel less stigma than in their ancestral homelands. Uncertainties about the future keep immigrants continually on the edge, which leads some to a deeper spiritual quest.

Australianama

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samia Khatun
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
Broken Hill ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Indian Ocean World

Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long been an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world, today the site of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territories contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- Cold War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the perspectives of those colonized by the British, Khatun highlights alternative contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people. Australianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books across the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge traditions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Aboriginal and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast, complex libraries that belie colonized geographies, Khatun shows that stories in colonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past, present and future.

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