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The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations

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The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations examines the social and cultural textures of contemporary Sikh and Ahmadiyya diasporas in respect to experiences and memories of violence. Nijhawan’s work is grounded in methods of anthropological fieldwork and qualitative social research on precarious subject positions and vulnerable social relations. The introduction contextualizes the book’s conceptual framework by drawing on the literature of diasporas, precarity, (urban) space, generations, and (heterodox) religious subjectivities. Nijhawan aims to show how a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs has had to negotiate both the legacies of past violence and the objectifying categorizations and normative regulation of current citizenship regimes. This is achieved by a focus on everyday practices and key sites of normative regulations such as (asylum) law, public discourses on religion, citizenship discourses and youth, as well as family and community as sites of intergenerational transfers of memory.

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Nijhawan, M. (2016). Introduction. In: The Precarious Diasporas of Sikh and Ahmadiyya Generations. Religion and Global Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48854-1_1

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