Conclusion—The Diasporic Disquiet
摘要
Shifting away from the paradigm of celebrating roots, Migration Matters is concerned with problematizing the idea of home and the contours of gendered belonging and un-belonging. The conclusive chapter ties up the debates and arguments that have been foregrounded and analysed through the readings of the selected South Asian diaspora writers. It is clear that even though this is an age of transnational migration, the concerns of South Asian diaspora writers are more diasporic than transnational. Most migrant subjects are marked by hybridity and have multiple trajectories of displacement, yet there are as many who are born and raised within the diasporic space and grapple with their racial and ethnic identities rather than suffer the anxieties of dislocation. Migration Matters argues that the South Asian diaspora has not really transcended the differences of race, sex, gender, religion, and class into a transnational space of free-floating, rhizomatic nomads. Like the implosive postcolonial nation-state, the diaspora too, in spite of its tendency to slide into transnational cosmopolitanism, is imbricated in the politics of ethnic, cultural, and national categories; bound by the fluctuations of capital and marked by the insidious operations of power.