AP/ANTH 3530 3.00 The South Asian Diaspora, Anthropological Perspectives
Not Offering in Fall/Winter 2026-27:
This course considers anthropological perspectives on the history of migration from the South Asian subcontinent, and will examine the configuration of South Asian cultures, identities, and politics. We will explore anthropological theories migration to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and will examine how both the country of arrival, as well as the country of departure shape migration. We will explore genres such as ethnography, memoir, fiction and film. We will examine themes such as citizenship, the state, diaspora, gender, and globalization. We will consider how South Asian immigrants negotiate citizenship, identity and belonging, while maintaining real and imagined social, political, and economic ties to countries on the subcontinent. As we will see, cultural productions of diasporic communities collapse binaries of “home” and “abroad” prompting new ways of thinking about the global map of “South Asia”.