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Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Diasporas around the world, including Indian Diasporas, are attracting the significant attention of academic experts, social scientists, and policymakers in both host and destination states.
India has been the top source country for migrants to New Zealand, and many other popular destinations in the global west in the last decade.
In this context, global experts from academia, government, bureaucracy, and the representatives of the Indian Diasporas themselves are gathering together on Friday, February 17, in a conference on New Zealand story of Global Indian Diasporas at Auckland campus of Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
The two-day conference is organised by the New Zealand-India Research Institute (NZIRI), a national centre of Indian Studies in New Zealand, in collaboration with Auckland University of Technology, with the support of Asia New Zealand Foundation, Human Rights Commission and Education New Zealand.
The conference titled Global Networks-Indianness Abroad: The New Zealand Story, appears all set to revisit an important attribute of diaspora as described by Fiona Adamson and Madeleine Demetriou - a “social collectivity” with ability to sustain a collective national, cultural or religious identity through a sense of internal cohesion and sustained ties with a real or imagined homeland.
The keynote speaker will be Dr Purnima Mankeker from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who will be speaking on global cultural perspective on migration and the ‘unsettling India,’ and Professor Paul Spoonley, Pro-Vice Chancellor Massey University, who will be speaking on demographics, race relations and ethic relations.
The conference opening remarks will be delivered by Prof Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Director, NZIRI, and the Judith Collins, Minister for Ethnic Affairs.
Among other topics of interest in this conference, one of generic interest to the wider audience appears to be “Diasporic Living,” where several diaspora representatives themselves would be sharing their day to day life experience as a member of diaspora community in the host nation – New Zealand at this instance.
The speakers in this segment of the conference are Dr Paula Ray, Tracy Berno, and Jared-Mackley-Crump.
The conference convenors are Dr Alison Booth, Dr Vijay Devadas and Dr Tracy Berno of Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Diasporas around the world, including Indian Diasporas, are attracting the significant attention of academic experts, social scientists, and policymakers in both host and destination states.
India has been the top source country for migrants to New Zealand, and many other popular destinations in...
Diasporas around the world, including Indian Diasporas, are attracting the significant attention of academic experts, social scientists, and policymakers in both host and destination states.
India has been the top source country for migrants to New Zealand, and many other popular destinations in the global west in the last decade.
In this context, global experts from academia, government, bureaucracy, and the representatives of the Indian Diasporas themselves are gathering together on Friday, February 17, in a conference on New Zealand story of Global Indian Diasporas at Auckland campus of Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
The two-day conference is organised by the New Zealand-India Research Institute (NZIRI), a national centre of Indian Studies in New Zealand, in collaboration with Auckland University of Technology, with the support of Asia New Zealand Foundation, Human Rights Commission and Education New Zealand.
The conference titled Global Networks-Indianness Abroad: The New Zealand Story, appears all set to revisit an important attribute of diaspora as described by Fiona Adamson and Madeleine Demetriou - a “social collectivity” with ability to sustain a collective national, cultural or religious identity through a sense of internal cohesion and sustained ties with a real or imagined homeland.
The keynote speaker will be Dr Purnima Mankeker from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) who will be speaking on global cultural perspective on migration and the ‘unsettling India,’ and Professor Paul Spoonley, Pro-Vice Chancellor Massey University, who will be speaking on demographics, race relations and ethic relations.
The conference opening remarks will be delivered by Prof Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Director, NZIRI, and the Judith Collins, Minister for Ethnic Affairs.
Among other topics of interest in this conference, one of generic interest to the wider audience appears to be “Diasporic Living,” where several diaspora representatives themselves would be sharing their day to day life experience as a member of diaspora community in the host nation – New Zealand at this instance.
The speakers in this segment of the conference are Dr Paula Ray, Tracy Berno, and Jared-Mackley-Crump.
The conference convenors are Dr Alison Booth, Dr Vijay Devadas and Dr Tracy Berno of Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
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