Articles on the South Asian Diaspora

Journal Articles on the South Asian Diaspora
Compiled by: Monica Ghosh


South Asia Librarian
University of Hawaii
Hamilton Library
Asia Collection


This is a select list of journal and magazine articles on the South Asian Diaspora that have been indexed by two online journal indexes; Uncover and Expanded Academic Index. The list is being prepared as part of a Roundtable Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, March 10, 2000. It is a work in progress. My goal is to compile a comprehensive list of articles on the South Asian diaspora published between the years 1980-2000, and to cover all directions of the dispersal.

If you have citations that you want included in this bibliography, please forward your suggestions to me for review at monicag@hawaii.edu.


Journal Articles

Bailey, Nick, Alison Bowes and Duncan Sim. "Pakistanis in Scotland: Census Data and Research Issues." Scottish Geographical Magazine. 1995 111:1, 36.

Bhana, Hershini. "Splitting Open Wide: Letters of Exile." Socialist Review. Fall 1994 24:4, 109-150.

Brunvand, L., C. Henriksen and A. S. Sandberg. "Iron deficiency among pregnant Pakistanis in Norway and the Content of Phytic Acid in their Diet." Acta Obstetricia Gynecologica Scandinavica. August 1 1995 74:7, 520.

Dhaliwal, Amarpal K. "Introduction: India and Its Diaspora." Socialist Review. 1994 24:4, 1.

Dusenbery, Verne A. "The Poetics of Politics and Recognition: Diasporan Sikhs in Pluralist Polities." American Ethnologist. November 1997 24:4, 738-785.

Frazer, Timothy C. "English in Language Shift: The History, Structure, and Sociolinguistics of South African Indian English." Language. September 1994 70:3, 578-781.

Greenhalgh, Trisha, Cecil Helman, and A. MuÕmin Chowdhury. "Health Beliefs and folk models of diabetes in British Bangladeshis: a qualitative study." Bmj: British Medical Journal. March 28 1998 316:7136, 978-983.

Grewal, Inderpal. "The Postcolonial, Ethnic Studies, and the Diaspora: the Contexts of Ethnic Immigrant/Migrant Cultural Studies in the US." Socialist Review. Fall 1994 24:4, 45-74.

Hadi, Abdullahel. "Overseas Migration and the Well-being of Those Left Behind in Rural Communites of Bangladesh." Asia-Pacific Population Journal. March 1 1999 14:1, 43.

Hardy, J., J. Gray, and T. Greenhalgh . "Health beliefs among British Bangladeshis." Bmj: British Medical Journal. August 8 1998 317:7155, 412.

Hinnells, John R. "South Asian Diaspora Communities and their Religion: A Comparative Study of Parsi Experiences." South Asia Research. Spring 1994 14:1, 62-.

Huque, Ahmad Shafiqul. "Stranded Pakistanis and Burmese Muslims in Bangladesh: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions." Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. July 1 1990 11:2, 273-294.

Jacobson, Jessica. "Religion and ethnicity: dual and alternative sources of identity among young British Pakistanis." Ethnic and racial studies. April 1 1997 20:2, 238-256.

Khan, Aisha. "Juthaa in Trinidad: food, pollution, and hierarchy in a Caribbean diaspora community." American Ethnologist. May 1994 21:2, 245-269.

Koshy, Susan. "Category Crisis: South Asian Americans and the Questions of Race and Ethnicity." Diaspora. Winter 1998 7:3, 285-320.

Krishnaswamy, Revathi. "Mythologies of Migrancy: Postcolonialism, Postmodernism and the Politics of (dis) Location." ARIEL. January 1995 26:1, 125-146.

Lal, Vinay. "Sikh Kirpans in California Schools: the Social Construction of Symbols, Legal Pluralism, and the Politics of Diversity." Amerasia Journal. Spring 1996 22:1, 57-90.

Lawry, Sue. "Consanguineous Marriage in Pakistan and among British Pakistanis." Social Biology and Human Affairs. 1994 59:2, 82-87.

Mahmood, Raisul Awal. "Adaptation to a New World: Experience of Bangladeshis in Japan." International Migration. 1994 32:4, 513-532.

Mann, Harveen Sachdeva. "Bharat mein mahila lekhana, or, womenÕs writing in India: regional literatures, translation, and global feminism." Socialist Review. Fall 1994 24:4, 151-172.

McCarthy, B. "Ethnic differences in response to adversity. A community sample of Bangladeshis and their indigenous neighbours." Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 1989 24:4, 196-201.

McEvilley, Thomas. "Import/Export: Tracking the Indian diaspora." Art in America. October 1998 86:10, 75-83.

Nagar, Richa. "The South Asian Diaspora in Tanzania: A History Retold." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 1996 16:2, 62-80.

Needham, Anuradha Dingwaney. "Fictions of national belonging." Socialist Review. Fall 1995 24:4, 173-184.

Propert, C. S. J., V. Jayanthi and D. J. Pollock. "Crohn's disease in Bangladeshis and Europeans in Britain: an Epidemiological Comparison in Tower Hamlets." Postgraduate Medical Journal. November 1 1992 68:805, 914-920.

Puar, Jasbir K. "Writing my way "home": Travelling South Asian bodies and Diasporic Journeys." Socialist Review. Fall 1994 24:4, 75-108.

Rahman, M., Shimu, T.A., & Yamamoto, W. "Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices about HIV/AIDS among the overseas job seekers in Bangladesh." Public Health. January 1 1999 113:1, 35-38.

Rai, Amit S. "India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Spring 1995 4:1, 31-58.

Ralson, Helen. "Arranged, "Semi-Arranged", and "Love" Marriage Among South Asian Immigrant Women in the Diaspora and Their Non-Migrant Sisters in India and Fiji: A Comparative Study." International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Fall 1997 27:2, 43-68.

Rege, Josna E. "Victim into protagonist? ÔMidnightÕs ChildrenÕ and the post-Rushdie national narratives of the Eighties." Studies in the Novel. Fall 1997 29:3, 342-375.

Richman, Paula. "A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall, Greater London." Journal of the American Academy of Religion. March 1999 33-58

Sekiguchi, Mari. "Nepalis in India and their social and political movements." Ajia torendo = Asian trends. June 1 1994 66, 86. (Text in Japanese)

Shukla, Sandhya. "Building Diaspora and Nation: the 1991 ÔCultural Festival of IndiaÕ." Cultural Studies. May 1 1997 11:2, 296-315.

Softky, Elizabeth. "Cross-cultural understanding spiced with the India Diaspora." Black Issues in Higher Education. September 18 1997 14:15, 26-27.

Soysa, G.D.G.P. "Sri Lankan overseas women workers: Policy and issues." Asian Migrant. July 1 1992 5:3, 82-84.

Stahl, Charles W., and Ahsanul Habib. "The Impact of Overseas WorkerÕs Remittances on Indigenous Industries: Evidence from Bangladesh." The Developing Economies. September 1 1989 27:3, 269-285.

Subba, T.B. "The Nepalis in North-East India: Political Aspirations and Ethnicity." Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society. March 1 1994 29:1/2, 39-48.

Tomlinson, Sally. "Disadvantaging the Disadvantaged: Bangladeshis and education n Tower Hamlets." British Journal of Sociology of Education. 1992 13:4, 437-446.

Visweswaran, Kamala. "Diaspora by Design: Flexible Citizenship and South Asians in U.S. Racial Formations." Diaspora: a Journal Transnational Studies. Spring 1997, 6:1, 5-29.

Waghore, Joanne Punzo. "The Diaspora of the Gods: Hindu Temples in the New World System 1640-1800." The Journal of Asian Studies. August 1999 58:13, 648-650.

Werbner, Pnina. "Economic rationality and hierarchical gift economies: value and ranking among British Pakistanis." Man. June 1 1990 25:2, 266-287.

Werbner, Pnina. "Fun Spaces: On Identity and Social Empowerment among British Pakistanis." Theory, Culture and Society. November 1 1996 13:4, 53-80.

Werbner, Pnina. "Exemplary Personhood and the Political Mythology of Overseas Pakistanis." Social Analysis. July 1 1990 28, 51-69.

Werbner, Pnina. "The making of Muslim dissent: hybridized discourses, lay preachers, and radical rhetoric among British Pakistanis." American Ethnologist. February 1 1996 23:1, 102-122.


Magazine Articles by staff writers
(some authors are not known)

Arden. "The Tamil Diaspora and Eelam Lobbies." Lanka Guardian. February 1, 1994 16:19, 11-12.

"Bangladesh." Malaysian Business. April 1 1996 55.

"The Gulf Crisis." Far Eastern Economic Review. October 4 1990 150:40, 22.

Karmali, Naazneen. "Citibank: breaking the Rs. 1,000-crore barrier." Business India. February 19 1990 312, 88-96.

Khan, Ismail. "Journey of no return." Newsline. May 1 1993, 4:11, 42.

"New York: Indians Abroad." Far Eastern Economic Review. October 19 1989 146:42, 36-43.

Rahul, Jacob. "Overseas Indians Make It Big." Fortune. November 15 1993 128:12, 168.

Singh, Rahul. "A great Indian wave; Indians abroad decide to document their diaspora." Far Eastern Economic Review. October 19 1989 145:42, 36.

"Sri Lanka: Tamil TigerÕs overseas network faces setbacks." Far Eastern Economic Review. April 9 1998 161:15, 29.

"Synergy: How overseas Chinese and Indians can cooperate to help their motherlands." Asiaweek. July 19 1996 22:29, 12.

"World: As growing numbers of refugees seek sanctuary, affluent nations are hit by 'compassion fatigue'." Time. July 3 1989 134:1, 24.


Created: March 7, 2000
Last Update: April 19, 2000