Making a Community Embedded in Mobility: Refugees, Migrants, and Tourists in Dharamshala (India) (December 2018)
Natalia Bloch (Author)
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Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Pages: 36-54
Edition Details: Special section: Postcolonial Intersections: Asia on the Move
Language: English
This case study of Dharamshala (India), a community that emerged as an outcome of mobility just a few decades ago and is constantly fueled by refugees, migrants, and tourists, aims to challenge the conceptual boundary between a receiving society and mobile Others, and to pose questions about community making in the context of postcolonial mobility. The history of Dharamshala reflects both the legacy of colonialism and the modern processes of mobility in postcolonial Asia. The town’s highly fluid and heterogeneous community consists of people of different nationalities, ethnicities, religions, and castes from Tibet, Nepal, the Global North, and various Indian states. Most are seasonal migrants attracted by the success of Tibetans in turning this in fact refugee settlement into a popular tourist destination, while some have already settled there. Communities embedded in mobility—for which mobility is an everyday lived experience—reshape our thinking about adaptation processes and social coexistence.
...MoreArticle Mayurakshi Chaudhuri; Viola Thimm (December 2018) Introduction: Postcolonial Intersections. Asia on the Move. Transfers (pp. 28-35).
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