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THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL AND JURIDICAL CONTEXT ON IDENTIFICATIONS IN INDIAN GUJARATI "DIASPORA".

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What is "Indian diaspora", "Gujarat diaspora"? Do people of this diaspora identify themselves as Indian or Gujarati people? Does Indian-ness exist? Here are the issues we want to discuss, at a time when the Indian state is initiating a new policy towards people of Indian origin living outside India. My focus will be on people of Indian origin (PIOs), and more precisely of Gujarati origin (PGOs), living in the western Indian Ocean: in Reunion Island, a French island, in Madagascar, which was a French colony until 1960, and also in France . These people have been living outside India for several generations and most of them have now obtained another nationality. The offer of the PIO and CIO cards occurred in some points of the Indian diaspora network, where auto-representation and categorisation is varied, given the national and local context and individual social positions. Carefully examined, the diaspora is far from being united and homogeneous: each group has its own history, brought from Gujarat and developed in the periphery. Madagascar and Reunion Island are very contrasting examples of this context and provide detailed examination of the subjective and social process of categorisation and identification in which the Indian state offer of more "Indianness" takes place.
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hal-00988227 , version 1 (07-05-2014)

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Sophie Blanchy. THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL AND JURIDICAL CONTEXT ON IDENTIFICATIONS IN INDIAN GUJARATI "DIASPORA".: EXAMPLES FROM WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS AND FRANCE. 2008. ⟨hal-00988227⟩
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