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Superdiverse Diaspora

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This chapter shifts the focus to a less studied ‘frame’ of the Tamil diasporic identification by turning attention to participants’ social relationships. The analysis explores the significance of these social relationships and the spaces in which they are enacted in engendering identification with a Tamil diaspora in these superdiverse migrants’ everyday life. The bulk of empirical material in this chapter draws on ethnographic work in community associations—spaces where the Tamil diasporic identity was self-consciously enacted and expressed. But, this chapter argues that while active reproduction of Tamil-ness amongst these associations’ diverse membership suggested common identification, even in the explicitly ‘Tamil’ setting of the community association where Tamil-ness was self-consciously reproduced and enacted, other intersecting identifications of statehood, caste and class came to matter experientially.

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Jones, D. (2020). Social Relationships. In: Superdiverse Diaspora . Global Diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28388-9_5

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