MA in Liberal Arts

This Subject Includes

• Course No: HS 513
• Course: MA in Liberal Arts
• Semester: III
• Title: Transnationalism and Migration: Issues of Development
• Stream: Political Science

• Transnationalism, migration and globalization; colonialism and the history of world connections; cultural imperialism; nationalism and identity: a post-colonial understanding; commodification of local cultures; ethnography of selected transnational and migratory communities in India.

  Texts/References

  1. A. Benedict, 1991 Imagined Communities revised ed. London and New York: Verso

  2. H. Michael. Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-state. Routledge, New York:, 1997.

  3. A. Appadurai, Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of

  Minnesota Press, 1995; Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens (New York: New Press, 1999)

  4. A. Portes, L. E. Guarnizo and P. Landolt. �The study of transnationalism: Pitfalls and promise of an

  emergent field.� Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, no. 2 (March, 1999): 217-237.

  5. A. M. Kraut, Silent Travellers: Germs, Genes and the �Immigrant Menace.� New York: Basic Books, 1994.

  6. P. van der Veer, �Introduction.� In Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora, edited by van der Veer. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

  7. E. Ferris, 1993, Beyond Borders: Refugees, Migrants, and Human Rights in the Post-Cold War Era.

  Trenton, New� Jersey: The Red Sea Press and Geneva: the WCC Press.

  8. W. Giles, and H. Moussa, eds., 1996, Development and Diaspora: Gender and the Refugee Experience. Dudas, Ontario, Canada: Artemis Publishers.

  9. D. F. Karaka, 2000, History of the Parsis: Including Their Manners, Customs, Religion, and Present Position: Adamant Media Corporation; Mumbai