10 research outputs found
The Politics of (In)security: Reconstructing African-Asian Relations, Citizenship and Community in Post-Expulsion Uganda.
No full textThis dissertation explores the dynamics of geopolitical South-Southism and the
possibilities and limits of renewed African-Asian relationships in contemporary Uganda.
More specifically, I analyze processes of post-1990s Ugandan Asian and South Asian
migration to Uganda and the re-integration of a South Asian racialized minority in
President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) national order.
First, I demonstrate that contemporary Uganda is a historically and culturally specific
space characterized by the intersection of Ugandan Asians who remained in the country
after former President Idi Amin’s 1972 expulsion decree, Ugandan Asian returnees, and
new economic migrants from the South Asian sub-continent. Through ethnographic and
historical method, I utilize the analytics of citizenship, sovereignty, and security (as well
as political economy, race, culture ethnicity, gender, and sexuality) to explore the lived
experiences of Ugandan Asians who remained, Ugandan Asian “returnees,” and new
South Asian migrants in Kampala. Oral history interviews with Ugandan Asians who
remained in Idi Amin’s regime (1972-1979), research at the Uganda Investment
Authority (UIA) in Kampala, ethnographic analysis of the politics of South Asian
community-building, and an examination of the practices of Ugandan African and South
Asian women as they respond to the increasing vulnerability of Indian women and their
bodies—all of this material reveals historical transformations in South Asian inclusion
and exclusion in Uganda and the multiple registers of racialized insecurity within which
Ugandan Asians and new South Asian migrants are embedded. While the post-1990s
state recognizes, legitimates, and manages South Asian presence in the country by
constructing Ugandan Asians and South Asian migrants as “investors,” I show that South
Asian women are rather invisible and unrecognized by emerging modes of neoliberal
economic and security-oriented global and state governance. Furthermore, I argue that
Ugandan Asians and South Asian migrants are engaged in a number of flexible
securitization practices both in Uganda and in transnational contexts. These flexible
securitization practices allow them to respond to the historical politics of racialized
insecurity by enhancing their sense of personal, family, and community-based security.PhDAnthropologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/97891/1/anneeth_1.pd
1970s Uganda: Past, Present, Future
No full text This paper explores the ongoing presence of the 1972 expulsion of the racialized Asian population by former president Idi Amin in contemporary Uganda. The expulsion was a “critical event” and thus the paper uses an “anthropology of the event” approach to focus on the architecture of silence and historical consciousness of the event in urban Kampala. The four arenas of focus are: (1) official state narratives; (2) community mobilization and public forums on urban African-Asian relations; (3) memories, adventure tales, and narratives expressed by Ugandan Asian men; and (4) the infrastructure and material culture of 1970s Asian property expropriation. </jats:p
The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations: Violence, Memory, and Agency. Michael Nijhawan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 289 pp.
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What is the transnational in transnational feminist research?
No full textThe focus on the transnational in feminist research aims to decentre Western epistemologies, shaking the foundation of the sometimes taken-for-granted framework of Western—and specifically UK, US or European-focused—feminist research in the English language; it aims to disrupt the embedded hegemonies of nationalist ideologies, in all their heteropatriarchal connotations. The transnational as a qualifier for feminist research methods and methodologies specifically aims to continue the project of transnational feminism, understood as a feminist paradigm and plural field of feminist thought, research and practice that can manifest as scholarly, intellectual and activist projects. Transnational feminisms, as activism and scholarship, have largely been developed and influenced by the work of self-identified women-of-colour feminists located in the Global North and postcolonial scholars or ‘Third World feminists’ located both in the North and South. While situated knowledges and feminist methods and methodologies that engage with the process of knowledge production from a critical and intersectional perspective represent ongoing explorations in Feminist Review, the focus on feminist methodologies from/with a transnational angle has added, we believe, a special urgency to this themed issue
Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the MASALA Study
No full textSouth Asians are a fast-growing, heterogeneous ethnic group in the United States. However, they remain understudied in health equity research despite experiencing a high burden of cardiovascular disease. Biased assumptions, such as the model minority myth, obscure their unique experiences of discrimination—a known contributor to cardiovascular disease–related health inequities. The form and pattern of everyday discrimination among South Asians has been largely unexamined. We addressed this gap by examining the dimensionality of the everyday discrimination scale (EDS) and its potential predic- tors among South Asians. Data are from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA; 2010–2018), a cross-sectional community sample (N=1164, 52% male, Mage=56.73, SDage=9.41). Structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis was used to conduct confrmatory factor analyses to estimate a measurement model for the latent variable of everyday discrimination and a structural model to examine associations between hypothesized predictors and the latent everyday discrimination variable. Confrmatory factor analyses revealed that a six-item, unidimensional version of the EDS ft the data best. SEM analyses showed that everyday discrimination was socially patterned across individual-, health-, community-, and cultural characteristics. Findings highlight the importance of considering how social positionali- ties and context may shape exposure to everyday discrimination. Importantly, our results have implications for identifying South Asian individuals at an increased risk of experiencing everyday discrimination and its associated health inequities, including cardiovascular disease–related outcomes
