In Search of Identity Perspectives from Second Generation South Asian diaspora

Introduction: In search of identity: perspectives from second generation South Asian diaspora

Diotima Chattoraj and Anindya Basu

1. Struggles for identity formation: second-generation South Asian diaspora overseas

A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah

2. Desis’ identity crisis in America: examining cultural and racial politics in Samira Ahmed’s Love, Hate and Other Filters (2018) and Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers (2021)

Hannah Ming Yit Ho

3. Floating notions of selfhood: interrogating cultural displacement across generations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

Aparna Singh

4. ‘Decolonising socio-political consciousness': second-generation LGBTQIA + South Asian experiences of finding the self and community in Aotearoa New Zealand

Cayathri Divakalala and Vinod Bal

5. Aligned and shifting identities in distant diasporas: a multigenerational examination

Susan Banki and I. P. Adhikari

6. Renegotiating being Tamil post-‘Tigers’: second-generation Tamils in Germany

Thivitha Himmen and Eva Gerharz

7. Narratives shaping the perceptions of the second-generation Afghan diaspora: is Afghanistan a militant, occupied and politically disordered country?

A. K. M. Ahsan Ullah and Diotima Chattoraj

8. Beyond convergence, divergence and resilience: identity construction of the second generation of the Bangladeshi diaspora in a globalised world

Nayeem Sultana and Md. Israt Rayhan

9. Hindutva, Hindu Diaspora and Communal Unrest in Leicester

Amit Ranjan and Dhimoyee Banerjee

10. Educating Indians, learning ‘Indianness’: navigating pluralistic educational infrastructures in diasporic Singapore

Emma Grimley, Orlando Woods and Lily Kong

11. India diaspora in Western Europe: adapting and negotiating identity

Sheetal Sharma

12. Identity threat through the lens of heritage language maintenance: second-generation Indian diaspora in Sydney, Australia

Ragni Prasad

13. The challenges of confronting racism as a social disease by second-generation Indians in social and professional space in Australia: A qualitative study

Neetu Kalra and Arumugam Seetharaman

14. Home away from home: negotiating a sense of belongingness among Punjabi diaspora in Netherlands

Atinder Pal Kaur and Bhupesh Gopal Chintamani

15. Enculturation and ethnic identity: the second-generation Malayalee diaspora in Ontario, Canada

W. Lijo Lal and M. S. Jayakumar

16. Certitude of belongingness: affective ties and changing politics of identification within the Nepali community in Darjeeling, India

Nilamber Chhetri

17. Second-generation South Asian [im]migrants: a new frontier of diaspora tourism

Jannatul Ferdous

Biography

Diotima Chattoraj is a Research Fellow at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information in Nanyang Technological University. Additionally, she is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the department of Social and Health Sciences in James Cook University, Singapore. A qualitative researcher, she focuses on Asian migration, international relations, consumer psychology and advertising effects. She has authored more than 30 journal articles, 8 books, 14 book chapters in leading journals. Additionally, she is the Deputy Editor of South Asia Research, Associate Editor of South-East Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal and serves as a peer reviewer for several refereed journals.

Anindya Basu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Diamond Harbour Women’s University. She has held this position since 2017, following her tenure as Assistant Professor at Women’s Christian College, Kolkata, from 2011. A rank-holder in both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in Geography at the University of Calcutta, she is also a recipient of the UGC-Junior Research Fellowship. Her academic interests span socio-political geography, urban-environmental issues, and tourism geography. Basu has successfully undertaken three sponsored research projects and has presented over one hundred papers at national and international conferences and seminars. She has also published approximately seventy research papers and book chapters. In addition to her research and teaching contributions, she serves as a peer reviewer for several refereed journals.