Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives

印度和中国的移民社区：比较的视角

Jayati Bhattacharya, Coonoor Kripalani, 编者

出版日期：2016年

出版商：Anthem Press India Anthem Press India / ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

页数： 305

代码： NSC23

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书名：9789380601793

Priyanka Chatterjee, Asian Journal of Social Science 46, 2018, 775 - 792.

"本卷的编辑们通过富有洞察力的文章，为'家'、'身份'、'移民'、'国籍'和'散居'的变化体验提供了新鲜而有吸引力的维度。引言指出了跨越固定边界所产生的复杂性，然而，这些边界是朦胧的，它们划定了地理轮廓，同时又限制了文化、语言和其他类别的认同。这些跨越运动穿透了其他有限的空间，然后打开产生了跨意识，尽管身份是否 "以其自身的独特性和完整性感而繁荣"（p.xiii）仍有争议，从而质疑民族国家的完整性。

本卷从多维的立场来处理空间身份的复杂性，通过生活空间、经济网络、文化互动和宗教协同的相互联系的坐标来解读印度和中国在南亚和其他地区的散居运动。

移民的竞争地位赋予了他们一种多元性，开启了从不稳定中演变出来的可能性。本卷倾向于挑出这种不稳定性，这种不稳定性是移民立场中固有的，它不允许对与这种运动相关的术语有任何限制性的理解，因此允许它在不断发展的跨国和跨文化接触所带来的模糊性中保持肥沃的调查土壤。"

Nayan Chanda. Global Asia, Vol. 10:2, Summer 2015.

".... 这本由两位印度学者编辑的16篇论文集，主要涉及今天印度和中国社区的社会、经济和政治生活，并对世界上两个最重要的散居地鲜为人知的方面投下了有力的一瞥。

这些文章讲述了一个引人入胜的故事，即二者如何在不同的方向上发展--一个被印度国内当局忽视，另一个被从孙中山到习近平的中国领导人培养。这两个侨民之间的关系以及他们接触到的地方为多元文化和宗教融合提供了令人惊讶的见解。....

这本书对于理解来自亚洲两个最古老文明的人民在他们所收养的国家中的动态是一个宝贵的帮助"。

许倩仪。Aseasuk News No. 59 Spring 2016, 18.

".... 虽然研究某一特定移民社区的南-南移民流动的编辑卷比较常见，但比较两个民族移民社区的作品则相对罕见。更难得的是，有跨学科的书，对两个大型移民社区之间的交集和互动进行探讨。本书正是在这里与众不同。

......编辑们精心挑选了一些章节，并将其并列在一起，以利于比较的姿态。

对于有兴趣了解移民经验的学者来说，本卷是一个有用的资源--特别是从移民和散居社区的角度。从历史、地理、政治科学、人类学、社会学和电影研究等学科中，本卷中的各章展示了印度和中国移民经历中强烈的相似性和差异性。更重要的是，这本书强调了印度和中国移民社区在移民和建设新家园过程中的韧性，无论他们在哪里定居。随着世界逐渐变得无国界和跨国，新的移民映射到旧的路径和既定的社区，这本书使我们认识到，移民是一个日益复杂的现象，需要更新的方法和手段，以便我们充分理解。

关于该出版物

这本跨学科的论文集为了解亚洲和全球各地的海外印度和中国社区提供了一个窗口。作者们讨论了文化和宗教 "他者 "的互动作用，对当地信仰和习俗的散居吸收，以及这些社区特有的实际商业网络和运作机制。在新加坡东南亚研究所和香港大学亚洲研究中心组织的国际研讨会上，本卷探讨了移民社区的材料、文化和想象力特征，并将这两个重要社区纳入比较框架。

Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives

Jayati Bhattacharya, Coonoor Kripalani, editors

Date of publication: 2016

Publisher: Anthem Press India / ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

Number of pages: 305

Code: NSC23

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ISBN: 9789380601793

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Review

Priyanka Chatterjee, Asian Journal of Social Science 46, 2018, 775 - 792.

"The editors of the volume offer fresh and engaging dimensions to the changing experiences of 'home,' 'identity,''migrant,' 'nationality,' and 'diaspora' through insightful essays. The introduction marks out the complexities that arise from crossing fixed boundaries, however, shadowy, which demarcate the geographical contours, while constricting the cultural, lingual, and other categories of identification. These across-movements perforate other limited spaces that then open up to generate trans-consciousness, although whether identities "thrive with their own sense of uniqueness and integrity" (p.xiii) remains debated, thus questioning the integrity of the nation-state.

Addressing the complexities of spatial identities from a multidimensional stance, the volume reads the diasporic Indian and Chinese movements across South Asia and beyond through the interconnecting coordinates of lived spaces, economic networks, cultural interactions, and religious synergies.

The contesting position of the migrants endows them with a plurality that opens up possibilities that evolve out of an instability. The volume tends to tease out this instability that is inherent within a migrant position that does not allow any constricted understanding of terms associated with such movements, hence allowing it to remain a fertile ground for investigation in the ambiguity posed by the ever-evolving transnational and transcultural engagement across boundaries."

Nayan Chanda. Global Asia, Vol. 10:2, Summer 2015.

".... This collection of 16 essays, edited by two Indian scholars, deals mostly with today's social, economic and political life of Indian and Chinese communities and casts a powerful light on little-known aspects of two of the world's most important diaspora.

The essays tell a fascinating story of how the two developed in different directions – one ignored by Indian authorities at home, the other cultivated by Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Xi Jinping. The relationship between these two diaspora and where they came into contact offer surprising insights into multiculturalism and religious fusion. ....

This book is an invaluable aid to understanding the dynamics of the people from two of Asia's oldest civilizations making it in the countries they adopted."

Koh Sin Yee. Aseasuk News No. 59 Spring 2016, 18.

".... While it is relatively common to find edited volumes examining South-South migration flows of a particular immigrant community, it is relatively rare to find works that compare two ethnic immigrant communities. It is even rarer to find interdisciplinary volumes that interrogate the intersections and interactions between two large ethnic immigrant communities. It is here that this book differentiates itself.

... the editors have carefully selected and juxtaposed chapters in a way that facilitates the comparative gesture.

This volume is a useful resource for scholars interested in understanding the migrant experience - especially from the perspectives of migrant and diasporic communities. Drawing from the disciplines of history, geography, political science, anthropology, sociology, and film studies, the chapters in this volume showcase strong parallels and divergences in the Indian and Chinese immigrant experiences. More importantly, this book highlights the resilience of Indian and Chinese immigrant communities as they migrate and build their new homes wherever they may settle. As the world becomes progressively borderless and transnational, and new migrations map onto old paths and established communities, this book brings home the fact that migration is an increasingly complex phenomenon that requires renewed approaches and methodologies for us to fully comprehend."

About the publication

This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia and across the globe. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious "other", the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the Uniiversity of Hong Kong, this volume explores materials, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.