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ABSTRACT
The era of transnational capital ushered in India's engagement with the diaspora through three investment strategies – the Non-Resident Indian, the Person of Indian Origin and the Overseas Citizen of India policies give special incentives to diasporans to invest into the Indian economy over other non-residents. These policies brought with it political debates on the diasporan's moral suitability, which ranged from economic traitors to a forgotten and beloved family member who is waiting to come back into the fold. Diasporic investment is then a form of difference introduced by the state that can simultaneously resort to nationalism and nationality. I argue that the debates on diasporic Indianness reveal the anxieties bound up with India's neoliberal project, as the continual reassertion of a territorialized Indian identity is occurring at the same time Indian people, labor and resources are increasingly deterritorialized via neoliberal policies.
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Notes on contributor
Anita N. Jain is Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Women's Studies at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona. Research interests include Post-Marxist and Post-Colonial Studies. She is author of ‘Diasporic Tensions: Mapping the Contradictions of Indian Femininity’, in Dimensions of International Migration (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).