CfP: Indian Diaspora in Development of Home and Host Countries | 10-11 January 2015

The Organisation for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI) hosts an international conference on Indian Diaspora in Development of Home and Host Countries: A Comparative Perspective in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India January 10-11, 2015.

Organizers welcome conference papers that focus on, but are not confined to, the following sub-themes:

1. India and its Global diaspora: Historical Linkages and Modern migration
2. Contribution of the Indian Diaspora to their host countries.
3.     The role of the Indian diaspora in the development of India: Historical and Contemporary
4. Journeys of the Women of Indian diaspora: as ‘carriers of culture’, preservers of identity, and contestations of gender roles
5. Problems of connectivity:  The Indian diaspora from different regions within India.
6. Indian Foreign Policy: Comparative Importance of diaspora as a heritage and strategic resource for emerging India

Abstracts in 250 words are invited on any of the sub-themes by 15^th of November 2014 to coordinator at  odiseminar@gmail.com.

Modest accommodation and free conference meals and kits will be provided to those participants whose final paper (5000 words) is received by 15^th of December 2014. The abstract selection will be communicated by 19^th of November 2014. There will be no registration fee for the seminar. Papers from the conference may be published in the peer reviewed journal Diaspora Studies, published by Routledge, U.K..