Ethnic Sociability: Holidays of Dutch Hindustanis in Spain

Jaswina Elahi

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Chapter 6 Ethnic Sociability: Holidays of Dutch Hindustanis in Spain

In: World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora

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Pages:: 58–66

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004388048_007

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Diaspora communities are established ethnic minorities groups that can easily be conceived of as imagined communities. However, imagined communities manifest themselves temporarily in different forms, including community festivities, weddings, birth ceremonies and religious and cultural gatherings. These kinds of activities are characterised by a short duration and they occur in the host country. This paper addresses a different manifestation of the imagined community: an ethnic community in action illuminated by physical interaction during organised travel across the European continent. It addresses the holiday experience of a large group of Dutch Hindustanis, descendants of British Indian indentured labourers in Suriname, during a bus trip from the Netherlands to Spain. This paper thus describes a relatively unknown topic of settled diaspora communities. Based on participant observation during an annual bus trip and a weeklong stay in Lloret de Mar (Spain), this paper describes ethnic sociability and the bonding effects within the group, notably, the re-establishment of old and the emergence of new bonding effects. Consequently, the manifestation of the imagined diaspora community differs from the familiar manifestations of diaspora communities in their cities of residence, as mentioned above. The topics illuminating the cohesion of the community include the institutional set up, the travel and the stay in Spain. This paper is theoretically relevant in that it addresses a highly under-researched phenomenon of diaspora communities, specifically how their social cohesion is re-established and sustained during the bus travel and stay in Spain.

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World of Diasporas: Different Perceptions on the Concept of Diaspora

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 117

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004388048

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 Nov 2018

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