Migration has taken a new hue post-liberalization reform since the 1990s. With the removal of unnecessary controls, it is fostered nowadays by free and open global markets and driven by the availability of greener pastures in new lands. That is why skilled and educated people are more welcome in these lands than war refugees or asylum-seekers. Such migrants are productive for the host countries, and because they also send remittances to their home countries, they contribute to the economies of both nations (Sahay 3). While reasons for migration could be multiple, like climate-induced problems, war-triggered dispersal, money-driven desires, and religious persecution, settlement in new lands is heavily influenced by homeland policies for migrants. However, it needs to be said that the old notion of diaspora as pain, exile, and trauma has undergone a paradigm shift, and it is now “viewed more positively as a kind of post-national cosmopolitanism or Creoleness in which the diasporic subject represents a new, more advanced stage of politically and culturally heterogeneous citizenry” (Buchanan 137).

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Migrant Sensibility

  • Hem Raj Bansal

摘要

Migration has taken a new hue post-liberalization reform since the 1990s. With the removal of unnecessary controls, it is fostered nowadays by free and open global markets and driven by the availability of greener pastures in new lands. That is why skilled and educated people are more welcome in these lands than war refugees or asylum-seekers. Such migrants are productive for the host countries, and because they also send remittances to their home countries, they contribute to the economies of both nations (Sahay 3). While reasons for migration could be multiple, like climate-induced problems, war-triggered dispersal, money-driven desires, and religious persecution, settlement in new lands is heavily influenced by homeland policies for migrants. However, it needs to be said that the old notion of diaspora as pain, exile, and trauma has undergone a paradigm shift, and it is now “viewed more positively as a kind of post-national cosmopolitanism or Creoleness in which the diasporic subject represents a new, more advanced stage of politically and culturally heterogeneous citizenry” (Buchanan 137).