A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar
The Indians of Antananarivo, a tiny minority of the urban population of Madagascar’s capital, are an original social group descending from a long-standing migration throughout the Indian Ocean in a colonial context. Although they have been living in the city for several generations and often occupy...
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ftgeorgetownuniv:oai:repository.library.georgetown.edu:10822/1088562 2024-09-15T18:02:39+00:00 A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar Fournet-Guérin, Catherine DigitalGeorgetown Coste, Didier Khona, Christina Pireddu, Nicoletta 2024 24 pages PDF http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1088562 https://doi.org/10.57928/k4sp-ac34 unknown http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1088562 doi:10.57928/k4sp-ac34 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism Vol. 2 Issue 1, 2024 Indians of Madagascar Antananarivo everyday cosmopolitanism urban minority colonial migrations postcolonial identities international circulations social and cultural geography 2024 ftgeorgetownuniv https://doi.org/10.57928/k4sp-ac34 2024-07-01T23:40:33Z The Indians of Antananarivo, a tiny minority of the urban population of Madagascar’s capital, are an original social group descending from a long-standing migration throughout the Indian Ocean in a colonial context. Although they have been living in the city for several generations and often occupy dominant social positions in terms of standard of living, they are still considered foreigners by local society and are subject to stigmatization. They form a heterogeneous group, connected to the outside world through an asserted Indian identity, as well as local and international links. Thinking in terms of cosmopolitanism allows us to consider both their urban spatial anchorage and their circulations in an open, globalized world. The presence of Indians in Antananarivo, here studied throughout leisure places and cultural venues run by Indians, contributes to the city’s cosmopolitanism, albeit rarely recognized and often devalued. On an international scale, many of them develop multiple identities, ambiguously turned towards contemporary India, and above all towards France--due to the colonial past–-and close islands, in a reticular manner. In their multiple and variable identities, the Indians of Antananarivo, though numerically very marginal, synthesize many conditions of the contemporary world: postcolonial, diasporic, minority, and cosmopolitan all at once. https://doi.org/10.57928/k4sp-ac34 Other/Unknown Material Close Islands Georgetown University: DigitalGeorgetown |
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The Indians of Antananarivo, a tiny minority of the urban population of Madagascar’s capital, are an original social group descending from a long-standing migration throughout the Indian Ocean in a colonial context. Although they have been living in the city for several generations and often occupy dominant social positions in terms of standard of living, they are still considered foreigners by local society and are subject to stigmatization. They form a heterogeneous group, connected to the outside world through an asserted Indian identity, as well as local and international links. Thinking in terms of cosmopolitanism allows us to consider both their urban spatial anchorage and their circulations in an open, globalized world. The presence of Indians in Antananarivo, here studied throughout leisure places and cultural venues run by Indians, contributes to the city’s cosmopolitanism, albeit rarely recognized and often devalued. On an international scale, many of them develop multiple identities, ambiguously turned towards contemporary India, and above all towards France--due to the colonial past–-and close islands, in a reticular manner. In their multiple and variable identities, the Indians of Antananarivo, though numerically very marginal, synthesize many conditions of the contemporary world: postcolonial, diasporic, minority, and cosmopolitan all at once. https://doi.org/10.57928/k4sp-ac34 |
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A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
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A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
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A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
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A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
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A Minority, Urban, and Cosmopolitan Group From an International Migration in Colonial Context: Spatialities and Identities of the Indians of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
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minority, urban, and cosmopolitan group from an international migration in colonial context: spatialities and identities of the indians of antananarivo, madagascar |
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