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.

Diabetes in the South Asian diaspora

2011 ◽  
pp. 1803-1805
Author(s):  
Srikanth Bellary ◽  
Kamlesh Khunti ◽  
Anthony H. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Usa ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Second World

Increased labour demands in Europe following the Second World War led to a migration of workers from the Indian subcontinent to many parts of Europe. A further wave of migration occurred in the 1960s and 1970s because of political turmoil in East Africa. More recently, technological progress and the need for skilled labour has resulted in migration to different parts of the world, including the USA and Canada. The term ‘South Asian’ broadly refers to people of Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi origin, but those from Sri Lanka and Nepal are commonly also included. Although there is considerable heterogeneity between these subgroups, they share many sociocultural factors.

Indian Merchant Networks Outside India in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Preliminary Survey

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Markovits
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
South Asian History ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Asian History ◽  
First World

In spite of the recent flowering of studies on the South Asian diaspora, we are nevertheless left with many gaps in our knowledge and many unanswered questions. The bulk of existing work is still focused on the migration of agricultural labour and the ‘Little Indias’ it spawned in various corners of the world. The recent migrations of educated professionals to the countries of the ‘First World’, particularly the USA, are also attracting increasing attention. The whole field of migration and diaspora studies remains, however, dominated by a host country perspective which tends to obliterate the general picture from the point of view of South Asian history.

Recovering the past in Jodhaa Akbar: Masculinities, Femininities and Cultural Politics in Bombay Cinema

2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahnaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
South Asian Diaspora ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Diaspora

As the dominant media institution in South Asia, Bombay cinema's cultural production of narratives, images and spectacle plays a crucial role in the effort to consolidate and project definitions of the nation. Moreover, such images are exported to the South Asian diaspora worldwide as part of the processes associated with the globalized cultural product referred to as Bollywood. This discussion examines the production and reception of the 2008 film Jodhaa Akbar both as process and product of complex historical, cultural and political nation-building projects in which gender plays a central role.

Connemara Marble, Co. Galway, Ireland: a Global Heritage Stone Resource proposal

2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (1) ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson ◽  
Louise Caulfield ◽  
Martin Feely ◽  
Ambrose Joyce ◽  
Matthew A. Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Dolomitic Limestone ◽  
The West ◽  
Ornamental Stone ◽  
Ornamental Stones ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Extensive Growth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Hydrothermal Metamorphism

AbstractConnemara Marble, a well-known distinctive decorative stone from the west of Ireland, is herein proposed as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Connemara Marble is a sillimanite-grade ophicarbonate, dominated by dolomite and calcite with varying proportions of serpentine, diopside, forsterite, tremolite clinochlore and phlogopite. The marble displays intricate corrugated layers that range in colour from white through sepias to various shades of green. These features impart unique characteristics that set the marble apart from other ornamental stones. Characteristics reflect amphibolite-grade metamorphism of an impure siliceous dolomitic limestone during the Grampian orogeny (475–463 Ma). Olivine, diopside, tremolite along with calcite and dolomite were formed during the peak of metamorphism which was followed by a later pervasive hydrothermal metamorphism that led to the extensive growth of serpentine after olivine and diopside. It has been used since Neolithic times, but has been quarried and fashioned in Connemara since the eighteenth century, and widely utilized in buildings in Ireland and the UK, for cladding, banisters, columns and church fittings. Later in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries it was exported in large quantities to the USA for use in civic and educational buildings. Its many uses as an ornamental stone in the interiors of buildings and in Irish jewellery commands worldwide acclaim.

scholarly journals What can lifespan variation tell us about trends in life expectancy in high income countries?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Hiam ◽  
J Minton ◽  
M McKee
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Environmental Event ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Lifespan Variation ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Building on the findings of presentations 1 and 2, we turn to two further measures of population health: life expectancy at birth and lifespan variation. Life expectancy at birth provides a single figure that captures the overall mortality experience of a nation, and, in the absence of data artefact, a wide-scale environmental event such as war or natural disaster, a disease epidemic or mass migration, life expectancy can be expected to continue to improve in HICs. Concurrently lifespan variation, which measures the average gap between the age at death of an individual and the remaining life expectancy at that age, should decrease as life expectancy increases. Recent analysis of life expectancy improvements in HICs by the Office for National Statistics, using Human Mortality Database data, found that while Japan continues to see improvements, the UK and the USA fell to the bottom of the rankings. Economically, both the UK and Japan have experienced 'lost decades' of poor economic growth, in 1990s and 2010s respectively. Yet, while Japan continued to see life expectancy improvements, in the UK life expectancy stalled, and both countries saw an increase in lifespan variation. In this presentation, we will present the analysis of lifespan variation of 5 HICs: the USA, where life expectancy has declined, the UK, where gains in life expectancy have trailed behind those in other industrialised countries, Japan, which has seen sustained progress, and France and Canada, neighbours of the UK and USA respectively, which lie in the middle. We will examine what can be determined from these measures over periods of poor economic growth, and the implications for achieving 'sustainable growth'.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF ACCULTURATION ON THE BRAND SELECTION OF THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rizwan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Brand Choice ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Diaspora ◽  
The Uk

It is found throughout the literature that culture is an important influence on consumer behaviour. Those people who migrate to another country belong to a different class of consumers, who is influenced by home or host culture simultaneously. This study is aimed to explore the influence of acculturation on the brand choice of the South Asian immigrants in the UK. This study used a quantitative methodology to test a proposed model, developed with the help of past studies. A survey instrument was developed to collect data from the South Asian immigrant population living in the UK. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypotheses. The study found that various personal factors like length of stay in the UK and income positively influence the acculturation, while acculturation decreasing with the increasing age among the South Asians in the UK.This study provides an insight about looking beyond the demographic variables while developing strategies to attract the market segments. The brand marketing management in the UK and other western countries while attracting the diaspora should understand the level of acculturation of their target market. The retailers may also consider the consumer cultural profile while deciding their product mix.

The Way of Hilton: Esprit de Corps in the UK and the USA in the Twentieth Century

Ensemblance ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 194-229
Author(s):  
Luis de Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Version ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Team Spirit ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This chapter shows how and why English uses of the idiom ‘esprit de corps’ in the twentieth century were not only increasingly frequent, but also dominantly laudative. The English version of the phrase tended to forget the pejorative political meaning invented by the Philosophes in the eighteenth century. If esprit de corps continued to thrive in several discourses (military, political, intellectual and theoretical, corporate, sports...), it was with a meaning that was increasingly generic and standard, often close to the idea of team spirit with a bellicose and enthusiastic twist. American managerial discourse reinvented esprit de corps in the twentieth century as an anthem of what the author proposes to call regimental capitalism,an alternative to trade-unionism The chapter also narrates the case of Conrad Hilton, the founder of the international chain of hotels, who explicitly transplanted his experience of military esprit de corps in France during WWI into his philosophy and practice of management.

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.

Inventing music education games

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ghere ◽  
Fred M. B. Amram
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
British Patent ◽  
The Usa ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

The first British patent describing an educational game designed for musical ‘amusement and instruction’ was granted in 1801 to Ann Young of Edinburgh, Scotland. The authors' discovery of Young's game box has prompted an examination of the nature and purpose of the six games she designed. Ann Young's patent is discussed in the context of her cultural environment, the history of women inventors, and eighteenth century educational theory. The activities are compared with musical instruction games recently patented in the UK and the USA.

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