Producing the domestic abroad: diasporas in international relations

In The Past Few Decades, And Across Disparate Geographical Contexts, States Have Adopted Policies And Initiatives Aimed At Institutionalizing Relationships With Their Diasporas. These Practices, Which Range From Creating New Ministries To Granting Dual Citizenship, Are Aimed At Integrating Diasporas As Part Of A Larger Global Nation That Is Connected To, And Has Claims On The Institutional Structures Of The Home State. Although Links, Both Formal And Informal, Between Diasporas And Their Presumptive Homelands Have Existed In The Past, The Recent Developments Constitute A Far More Widespread And Qualitatively Different Phenomenon. In This Book, Latha Varadarajan Theorizes This Novel And Largely Overlooked Trend By Introducing The Concept Of The Domestic Abroad. Varadarajan Demonstrates That The Remapping Of The Imagined Boundaries Of The Nation, The Visible Surface Of The Phenomenon, Is Intrinsically Connected To The Political-economic Transformation Of The State That Is Typically Characterized As Neoliberalism. The Domestic Abroad Must Therefore Be Understood As The Product Of Two Simultaneous, On-going Processes: The Diasporic Re-imagining Of The Nation And The Neoliberal Restructuring Of The State. The Argument Unfolds Through A Historically Nuanced Study Of The Production Of The Domestic Abroad In India. The Book Traces The Complex History And Explains The Political Logic Of The Remarkable Transition From The Indian State's Guarded Indifference Toward Its Diaspora In The Period After Independence, To Its Current Celebrations Of The Global Indian Nation. In Doing So, The Domestic Abroad Reveals The Manner In Which The Boundaries Of The Nation And The Extent Of The Authority Of The State, In India And Elsewhere, Are Dynamically Shaped By The Development Of Capitalist Social Relations On Both Global And National Scales.--publisher's Website. Introducing The Domestic Abroad -- Reimagined Nations And Restructured States: Explaining The Domestic Abroad -- Putting The Diaspora In Its Place: From Colonial Transnationalism To Postcolonial Nationalism -- The Making And Unmaking Of Hegemony: Indian Capitalism From Swadeshi To Swraj -- From Indians Abroad To The Global Indian. Latha Varadarajan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 10 1. Introducing the Domestic Abroad......Page 14 2. Reimagined Nations and Restructured States: Explaining the Domestic Abroad......Page 33 3. Putting the Diaspora in Its Place: From Colonial Transnationalism to Postcolonial Nationalism......Page 62 4. The Making and Unmaking of Hegemony: Indian Capitalism from Swadeshi to Swraj......Page 89 5. From Indians Abroad to the Global Indian......Page 118 Conclusion......Page 153 Appendix......Page 168 Notes......Page 172 Bibliography......Page 230 B......Page 246 C......Page 247 E......Page 248 H......Page 249 I......Page 250 N......Page 251 P......Page 252 S......Page 253 V......Page 254 Z......Page 255