Diaspora/Migration

Books
Three Muslim Families, Three Cities: A Review of Muslims of Metropolis
Through the stories of a Bangladeshi family in New York, a Palestinian family in London, and a Kurdish family in Germany, Kavitha Rajagopalan's Muslims of Metropolis is a necessary intervention into the popular discourse that informs our ideas about Muslims.
by Omer Shah
From Issue 34 May 11th, 2009

Features
The Work of Domestic Work
Domestic workers' unions in India educate workers about their rights and advocate at the local, national, and international level for women pulled into this industry as a result of poverty, displacement or trafficking.
by Sister Josephine Amala Valarmathi
From Issue 30 November 10th, 2008

Forum: Movements in Migration
Power of Love and Money
Sending a remittance is an individual act of love from the sender to the receiver. Collectively, it can be transformed into economic power.
by Francis Calpotura
From Issue 27 November 12th, 2007

Forum: Movements in Migration
Diversity and Struggle in the Arabian Gulf
A history of South Asian migration to the Arabian Gulf, from the imperial days when it was linked to the British Raj to the post oil-boom frenzy of today. By carefully exploring the extended histories of South Asian migrants to the Gulf, Kanna debunks the idea of South Asians as "alien" and looks at the impact of oil in changing perceptions of South Asian migration to the region.
by Ahmed Kanna
From Issue 27 November 12th, 2007

Forum: Movements in Migration
Story of a Nepali in Exile
An interview with Mahabir Chaudhari, a Nepali human rights defender now living in exile in New York. He explores the complexities and challenges faced by many migrants who have sought political asylum to escape Nepal's over a decade-long civil war.
by Rob Verger
From Issue 27 November 12th, 2007

Forum: Movements in Migration
The Making / Migrant Song / Sound the Alarm
In the following excerpt from Migritude, a one-woman spoken-word theater piece, Shailja Patel brings us the story of South Asian migration to East Africa.
by Shailja Patel
From Issue 27 November 12th, 2007

Features
Londonistan Recalled
Muslim migration to the UK is de-historicized, colonial legacies are ignored, and contemporary racism is overlooked, in Christopher Hitchens' England.
by Brendan LaRocque
From Issue 26 July 30th, 2007

Features
The Battle Over California's Textbook
Hindu groups' efforts to revise school textbooks in the name of second generation Indians' self esteem would erase the truth of the caste system, patriarchy and minority oppression.
by Kausalya
From Issue 22 March 20th, 2006

Editorial
Why the "Gay Rights Movement" is Anti-Immigrant Rights
The "gay rights" movement has rarely shared a table with the immigrant rights movement. Focused on the right to marry and rights of citizens, it leaves behind much needed coalition building between the movements.
by Debanuj Dasgupta
From Issue 20 September 15th, 2005

Editorial
Becoming in Diaspora
Are we Rushdie’s "bastard children" of history, hybridity, and violence, from which transformation and tomorrows can generate? What kind of diaspora are we becoming?
by Angana Chatterji
From Issue 19

Features
From Kabul to Kanda
Afghan Refugees Struggle for Justice in Japan
by Rupali Ghosh
From Issue 18

Books
The Trouble with Secularism
A Review of Amitava Kumar's Husband of a Fanatic
by Hirsh Sawhney
From Issue 18

Film
Inna Babylon
Mutiny and the Soul Rebels from the Subcontinent
by Sohail Daulatzai
From Issue 18

Interviews
Hybrid and Alive
An Interview with Pianist Vijay Iyer
by Manu Vimalassery
From Issue 17

Features
Challenging the Foreign Exchange of Hate
The Campaign To Stop Funding Hate Documents the Hindutva Money Trail
by Angana Chatterji
From Issue 16

Forum: Dogmas of War
Passports and Pink Slips
Immigration and Labor After 9/11
by Manu Vimalassery
From Issue 15

Forum: The South Asian American Generation
An Activism of One's Own
Reflections on cross-border activism in the West and "back home"
by Ajay Gandhi
From Issue 14

Books
Of Foreigners and Fetishes
A Reading of Recent South Asian American Fiction
by Sheetal Majithia
From Issue 14

Forum: Come, Africa
Sailing Into the Past
The African Experience in India
by Edward A. Alpers
From Issue 13

Forum: Come, Africa
Uncovering the Links, Part 1
The Crows and Pawns of British Colonialism
by Paul Greenough
From Issue 13

Forum: Come, Africa
Uncovering the Links, Part 2
From Africa With Love
by Allen Roberts
From Issue 13

Forum: Come, Africa
Saboteurs? Or Saviours?
The Position of Tanzanian Asians
by Richa Nagar
From Issue 13

Film
Which Way Is East?
Two views of the film version of Ayub Din Khan's East Is East
by Sujani Reddy and Badal Malick
From Issue 13

Books
Here's Our Labor. Now How About Our Lives?
The Karma of Brown Folk and Passport Photos
by Raza Mir and Sujani Reddy
From Issue 13

Features
Afro-Asia in Pakistan
Historic, political and intellectual linkages between Africa & Pakistan
by Hasan Mujtaba
From Issue 13

Forum: Eat This!
Behind Swing Doors: South Asian Workers Speak
Interviews with New York City food service industry workers
by Nargis Akhter, Nahar Alam, and Anannya Bhattacharjee
From Issue 12

Features
Sovereign Cybernation of Sikh Diaspora @ K300
by Amardeep Singh
From Issue 12

Film
Bollywood Comes To Nigeria
by Brian Larkin
From Issue 8

Features
Jungleeji's Advice for the Love Lorn
by Ginu Kamani
From Issue 7

Forum: Class Encounters of the South Asian Kind
One Big, Happy Community?
Class Issues Within South Asian Homes
by The SAMAR Collective
From Issue 4