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Diasporas:
General Perspectives and Overview
Kee Pookong
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
[email protected]
5th DIVERSITY MATTERS
a Commonwealth forum on cultural diversity
Diasporas in the Commonwealth
Monash Malaysia
19 – 20 November 2008
Outline
Conceptualizing
“Diasporas”
Importance of Diasporas
Chinese and Indian
Diasporas
Challenges and Issues
Evolution of the Concept
Dia speiro (Greek) = to scatter seed
Greek colonial expansion: 800 - 600 BC
Jewish history = forced exile, victimization, myth
of return
586 BC through Holocaust (1938-1944),
Israel state (1948) and Present
African Diasporas
1960s -Forced dispersion, homelands
Recent liberal usages of the term
Any form of real or imagined community
Some Essential Characteristics
Dispersal in two or more countries
Memory of original homeland
Alienation, marginalisation or exclusion in host land
Relationship with kin in other diasporic communities
Preserve ethnic boundaries
Ongoing relationship with ancestral land
Idealization or discourse of return
Diasporas – Typologies
Displacement by causes (Robin Cohen, 1997)
Victim Diasporas
Jews, African、Armenian
Migratory Diasporas – Labor, Traders, Refugees
Chinese, Indian, Palestinian, Italian, Greek, Japanese
Ideological (Religious) Diasporas
- Islam, Hindu, Sikhs
Imperial Diasporas
British, German
Importance of Diasporas
• An analytical concept:
– History of human experience: dispersion, identity, longing,
and return
• A practical concept:
– Of interest to states – political, economic, or cultural
mobilization
– International organizations – development
– International relations
Special relevance in a globalized world –
Compression of time and space
Transmitters of funds and ideas
Global production networks
Production, distribution, consumption, R&D
Role in an Information Age
Information vs. Knowledge and Understanding
Mass migration (200 million “migrants”)
Size, direction, characteristics and timing
The Chinese Diaspora(s)
Long History of Chinese Migration
Admiral Zheng He [Cheng Ho] – 1405-1433
Columbus’s
St Maria
1834 Abolition of slavery
1842 Treaty of Nanjing
Indentured labor
• Forced opening of Chinese ports
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, USA
White Australia Policy, 1901
Chinese Immigration Act, 1923, Canada
Source: Adam McKeown, 2004, Global Chinese Migration, 1850-1940
The Chinese “Diaspora(s)”
“Overseas Chinese” or “Chinese Overseas”?
Chinese Categorization
Zhong Guo Ren (Chinese nationals)
0verseas Chinese (Hua Qiao – Chinese Sojourners)
Chinese nationality
Huaren (Ethnic Chinese)
Chinese identity
Hua yi (People of Chinese Descent)
“Assimilated”, Inter-married
Overseas Chinese “GNP”, 1990
SUS$354 billion
Chinese
Overseas
Chinese
US$ 450 billion
Source: The Economist (London), July 1992
Percentage of Direct Foreign Investments in China by Sources, 1994
Singapore, 3%
Others, 4%
Japan, 6%
Rest of S.E Asia,
2%
USA, 7%
Rest of OECD,
8%
Hong Kong,
59%
Taiwan, 11%
Source: State Statistical Bureau, China, 1995 (see Encyclopedia of Chinese Overseas, 1998, Page 111)
1995
1996
1998
1997
1995
Distribution (%) of “Chinese Overseas” in Selected Countries, 2003
Estimated Total 37,500,000
Russia 0.53%
Canada 3.89%
USA 8.49%
UK
0.72%
Netherlands 0.38%
France
0.61%
Germany 0.27%
Japan
India 0.38%
1.28%
Myanmar 2.71%
Vietnam 3.25%
Laos
0.46%
Thailand 19.18%
Cambodia 0.86%
Philippines 2.92%
Malaysia 16.09%
Brunei
0.01%
Singapore 6.99%
Indonesia, 19.62 %
Australia 1.56%
New Zealand 0.34%
Source: The Almanac of Overseas Chinese Economy, Taipei (in Chinese) various years
Chinese Diaspora:
Number and Percentage in Selected Countries, 2003
Russia
200,000 (0.14%)
Canada
1,458,000
(4.6%)
USA
3,186,000
(1.1%)
Japan 479.000
UK 271,000(0.45%)
Netherlands143,000(0.88%)
France229,000(0.38%)
Germany103,000(0.13%)
India
141,600
(0.01%)
(0.3%)
Myanmar 1,018,074 (2.1%)
Vietnam 1,220,000 (1.53%)
Laos 172,933
(3.2%)
Thailand 7,193,000 (11.0%)
Cambodia 321,180 (2.4%)
Philippines 1,096,169 (1.3%)
Malaysia 6,036,000 (24.1%)
Brunei 5,579
(14.4%)
Singapore 2,621,000 (76.8%)
Indonesia, 7,362,000 (3.4%)
Australia
585,000 (2.93%)
New Zealand
127,000 (2.67%)
Source: The Almanac of Overseas Chinese Economy, Taipei (in Chinese) various years
Chinese Diaspora Population Distribution (%), 2003
Number: 37.5 Million
Myanmar,
2.71%
Philipine,
2.92%
Vietnam,
3.25%
Others, 16.85%
Indonesia, 19.62%
Thailand, 19.18%
Canada, 3.89%
Singapore, 6.99%
Malaysia, 16.09%
USA, 8.49%
Indians Diasporas
Mass migration started with the colonial era in the 19th
century
some 28 million Indians emigrated , 1846-1932
some 4.5 million settled in Malaya and Burma between 1882 and
1937
Mostly working class – coolie migration (plantation workers,
labourers)
Post-Independence: migration to Britain
Since 1970s: highly skilled migrants to the USA, Canada and
Australia
Policy Development
• High Level Committee on Indian Diasporas Report, 2001
• Indian Diaspora Day – Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, January 9th
• Overseas Citizenship of India Act, December 2005 – dual
citizenship to PIOs (Persons of Indian Origin)
Indian Diaspora: Distribution (%) in Selected Countries, 2001
Total Estimate: 16,943,580
Canada
2.84%
USA
9.91%
UK 7.08%
Netherlands 1.28%
Kuwait 1.74%
Bahrain 20.22%
Qatar 10.77%
UAE 5.61%
Saudi Arabia 8.85%
Oman 1.84%
Myanmar 17.13%
Malaysia 9.83%
Singapore 1.81%
Kenya
0.6%
Trinidad Tobago 2.95%
Guyana,2.33%
Suriname 0.89%
Fiji
1.99%
Mauritius
4.22%
South Africa
5.9%
Reunion Is.
1.3%
Australia
1.12%
Source: The Indian Diaspora, High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora, New Delhi, 2001
http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm, 2001
Indian Diaspora:
Number and Percentage in Selected Countries, 2001
Canada 851,000 (2.84%)
UK1,200,000 (2.11%)
Netherlands217,000(1.36%)
USA 1,678,765 (0.6%)
Kuwait295,000(13.09%)
Bahrain130,000(20.22%)
Qatar131,000(24.95%)
UAE 950,000(32,76%)
SaudiArabia1,500,000(6.98%)
Oman312,000(13.57%)
Myanmar 2,902,000 (6.24%)
Malaysia 1,665,000
(7.27%%)
Singapore 307,000 (9.72%)
Kenya 102,500
(0.36%)
TrinidadTobago500,600(64,59%)
Guyana395,350(51.01%)
Suriname150,000(34.25%)
Mauritius
715,756
(60.35%)
South Africa
1,000,000
(2.23%)
Reunion Is.
220,055
(31.02%)
Australia
190,000 (1.02%)
Source: http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/contents.htm, 2001
Fiji
336,829
(42.1%)
Indian Diaspora Population Distribution (%), 2001
Number: 16.9 Million (20 million?)
Myanmar
17%
Others
26%
USA
10%
Mauritius 4%
Malaysia
10%
Canada 5%
South Africa
6%
UAE
6%
UK
7%
Saudi Arabia
9%
Chinese and Indian Diaspora: Compared
37 million
20 million
80% in Southeast Asia
Wider scatter, including Africa,
(Nanyang – South Seas)
Caribbean, Middle East
Historically more varied –
Historically, majority were
merchants, traders, and
labourers
Greater degree of Chinese
integration and assimilation
–Christianity, intermarriage;
forced assimilation
plantation worker sand
labourers
Less predominantly male (under
British regulated indentured
system); arranged marriages;
larger numbers;; Hindu religion;
caste
- Relative homogeneity
Buddhist, Ancestor
Worship, secularization
Common written
language
Greater diversity
Aryan – Dravidian
Religion (Hindu, Sikh,
Parsi, Muslim,
Buddhist)
Language (Hindi, Tamil,
Punjabi, Telugu)
Caste
Regional (Dialect)
identities
- Regional identities
Popular Cultures
Chinese Cultural “Centre”,
“Semi-Periphery”,
“Periphery”
1.
Centre: China
2.
Secondary Centres:
Taiwan, Hong Kong
3.
Tertiary Centres (subcultures): Singapore, San
Francisco, SydneyMelbourne
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Bollywood – Bombay
Kollywood - Kodambakkam,
Madras (Tamil)
Indo-Caribbean Diaspora
Literature
Day
Deng Xiaoping 邓小平: 1904-1997
Night
Deng Lijun 邓丽君: 1953-1995
Chinese Overseas investment
(FDI) in China
les than 5% of the
Chinese counterparts
Active global diasporic
meetings/conferences of clan,
dialect , and business groups
Less active
World Chinese
Entrepreneurs Conventions
(since 1991);
Hakka, Teochew and other
dialect group conferences
Convergence in Chinese and Indian
Diaspora Experience
Migration and the highly skilled, professional and
entrepreneurial especially to the USA, Canada,
Australia (and Singapore)
Two-stage or multi-stage migration: re-migration
Return migration and circular migration (brain
circulation)
1998
2006
Migration and Re-Migration:
Chinese-Australians as a Microcosm of the Diaspora
Birthplaces of People of Chinese Ancestry, Australia, 2006
Australia
Indonesia, 3.6%
Cambodia
Australia, 22.8%
Viet Nam, 6.4%
China ( exclud
Province )
Hong Kong (
Taiwan
Malaysia
Singapore, 3.5%
Singapore
Vie t Nam
Malaysia, 10.0%
Cambodia
Indone sia
East Timor
Taiwan, 3.7%
Hong Kong 10.1%
China Mainland
30.5%
Laos
Thailand
Papua New
All Othe r Bir
RE-MIGRATION
Estimates of Overseas Chinese Population in Selected South-East Asian Countries (Various Years)
and Proportions of Chinese Among Immigrants to Australia from these Sources (2001 Census)
Challenges and Issues
Conceptual
Semantic - Analytical Rigor
Proper Noun
quasi-Proper Noun
common noun
“Oxymoronic definitions” (Dufoix2003) –
“Queer diaspora”, “Soccer diaspora”, etc
State Responses to Ethno-cultural and
Religious Diversity
Destination country
Source country
• Extermination
• Encourage integration to
• Assimilation
• Selective Inclusion
• Multicultural
local community
• Diaspora mobilization for
political party or national
interest
• Extraterritoriality
• Global or Local
International Relations: Identity Politics; Diasporas as Non-State Global Actors
Jus Sanguinis, Jus Solis, or?
1. Jus Sanguinis – Birthrights by descent (blood)
2. Jus Solis –
Birthrights by place of birth
3. Dual Nationality
4. Individual Choice?
The Three “Ds” of Migration
The Migrant Experience : on-going
Dirty, Demanding, Dangerous
Continued “proletarianisation” of diaspora members in
the South & North vs. “professionalisation” in the North
(Bhikhu Parekh et al, 2003)
The Main Causes of Migration
Demography, Development,Democracy
Diasporas – as a democratization, development, and
demographic change agents
Global Communities?
Internet Connectedness – Selected Birthplace Groups, Victoria,
78%
Australia 2006
85%
China(Mainland)
Hongkong
88%
Taiwan
85%
Singapore
85%
Malaysia
Vietnam
84%
Indonesia
Cambodia
65%
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