GEOGRAPHIES OF INDIAN TRANSNATIONALISM

This chapter focuses on three migrant communities in Australia Punjabis, Kannadigas and Indo-Fijians in order to address the spatial organisation of Indian diasporic transnationalism and the embedded continuities and discontinuities in these processes. It begins with a brief discussion of the important role of transnational kinship networks for Indian migrants. The chapter focuses on three migrant communities in Australia - Punjabis, Kannadigas and Indo-Fijians - in order to address the spatial organisation of Indian diasporic transnationalism and the embedded continuities and discontinuities in these processes. The discussion of the geography of Indian transnationalism draws on the experiences of Indian migrants in Australia and the enactment of their transnational way of life in the everyday. It emphasises the nature of transnational spaces as being socially constructed through the agency of migrants and therefore always of a dynamic nature.