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Indian Diaspora: Dilemmas and Concerns

2013· article· en· W278919828 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
C. V. Padmaja

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiaspora, migration, transnational identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiasporaHomelandIdentity (music)Context (archaeology)ImmigrationSpace (punctuation)SociologyGender studiesHistoryMedia studiesAnthropologyAestheticsArtPolitical sciencePoliticsLawPhilosophyArchaeologyLinguistics
DOInot available

Abstract

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The writers of the diaspora desired to keep alive their traditions in their writings; their basic inspirations are their memories of the past from the motherland. When the immigrants recollect their past, they are not only nostalgic about their memories but about their geographical place which is not only a geographical physical space but also the mentally conjured psychological cultural space. The paper attempts to show how an immigrant writer creates a third space in order to escape from the conflicting situation of choosing the host culture and the native culture as foundation for identity construction. In this new identity, s/he precipitates the past as well as present cultures, showing the diasporic literature as highly vibrant and expressive of the split self of an immigrant.Diaspora is not merely a scattering or dispersion but an experience made up of collective and multiple journeys; an experience determined by who travels, where, how and under what circumstances (Pal et al, 2004, p. 14).Tapas Chakraborty observes that diaspora has two kinds of people: doubly privileged and doubly underprivileged.The doubly underprivileged are those who have lost both homelands as illegal immigrants abroad, have lost izzat. They can't come back without having earned the money, which they lost when they left.The doubly privileged are the people who are 'high placed' in both homeland and the host country (Sharma et al, 2004, p. 55).In the words of Vijaya Mishra, the Indian context has two kinds of diaspora:The old Indian diaspora which is a diaspora of exclusivism, as opposed to new Indian diaspora characterized by mobility, because they created relatively self- contained Tittle Indians' in the colonies (Sharma et al, 2004, p. 82).The Indian diasporic communities have not decreased the intensity of the country but have expanded the borders of India by carrying their cultural baggage to the host culture. People migrate to other countries with many dreams, hopes and aspirations. However, we see many of their hopes and dreams remain fantasies and unrealistic. The question is where do people who have been with the host country for more than a decade stand in the society now? What is their place in that country? This idea can be pursued from Gupta (2003):Today, I live in Canada, having left my home, in Calcutta, not 50, but a little more than 25 years ago. I honestly do not know if I am any more 'independent' today than I would have been had I never left India in 1971. Regardless of whether one considers me a writer or not, I suppose I carry the brand name 'expatriates' (p. 40).An immigrant consciously or subconsciously tries to adapt the host country's culture to prosper and develop in the new culture. Indians who migrated to other countries for economic betterment, now with increased economic strength, play a crucial role in emerging trade, investment, technology and tourism. The people of Indian diaspora carry conflicting contradictory irresolvable cultural codes and pale images of civilization, and when these people are forced to be absorbed into the host country, they manifest maladjustments, because of the social hierarchies and racial, ethnic and cultural differences present within the settler country.Those of first generation Indian diaspora could not assimilate themselves into the host country as they are nostalgic of their homeland and still confined to the principles that nurtured them. The second generation of Indian diaspora gradually got involved with the host country. The third generation of Indian diaspora adapted to the host country. The Indian immigrants formed little Indian colonies in the host countries (such as America, Africa, Canada and UK) and made a noteworthy existence. These little Indian colonies resemble the mother country and in the words of Paranjape (2004),It is not just the homeland that creates diaspora but that diasporas also create the homeland (p. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.130
Threshold uncertainty score0.992

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.267 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2013
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