La cartografía de la movilidad: la diáspora en el marco de la articulación entre lo local y lo global

Abstract

The Indian diaspora, one of the largest ones in the world, is estimated at over 20 million Indians abroad, living in more than 70 countries with different volume of population in them, according to the High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora’s Report (MEA, 2022).

Sheffer (1986) points out that the triadic relationship among the country of origin, the diaspora and the country of residence becomes an integral and even permanent aspect of national and international politics. This relationship shows dynamics that articulate the local and the global and they include diverse subjects such as: the government’s politics of the country of origin towards the diaspora, its implications for bilateral and multilateral relationships, different issues about citizenship, the replication of local Indian political construction in the countries of residence, the implication of Indian emigrants in socio political issues in the countries of residence, the development of different economic interests which also imply especially identity issues, levels of influence and resources (Newland, 2010).

Thus, this article is an approximation to the diaspora in the context of the articulation between local and global, ending with the idea that the mere enunciation of the diaspora, from the considered perspective, shows an articulation, and this articulation is a permanent work, in the context of the identity meaning/re-elaboration of the meaning of “Indianness”, its scope on the configuration of space and time and the capacity of influence that this implicates.