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Now and Then ‐ Diasporic Identity Processes Among South Asian Young Adults in Scandinavia

Rashmi Singla (Department of Psychology and Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark)

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care

ISSN: 1747-9894

Article publication date: 1 October 2008

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Abstract

This paper explores some social‐psychological aspects of South Asian young adults in Denmark, including identity processes through social relations across geographical borders and psychological diaspora consciousness, and is a follow‐up of a project conducted in the mid‐nineties, in Denmark (N = 14). Diasporic conceptualisations focusing on human‐centredness and processes in migration, combined with a lifecourse perspective, provide the theoretical framework for this study. The method used is in‐depth interviews, analysed through condensation and meaningful categorisation of the narratives. The young adults are perceived as active actors in relation to their life situation. The results show the young adults', as well as the parental generations', re‐interpretation of the self, other and home. They also show that the young adults' diasporic identities involve the countries of origin as well as the Scandinavian welfare societies. However, the myth of return is not supported, although the countries of residence have adopted increasingly restrictive migration policies in the past years.

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Singla, R. (2008), "Now and Then ‐ Diasporic Identity Processes Among South Asian Young Adults in Scandinavia", International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 16-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/17479894200800009

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