Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora Britain, Eas
Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat is the first detailed study of the cultural life and representations of the prolific twice-displaced Gujarati East African diaspora in contemporary Britain. An exceptio
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Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora
Maya Parmar
Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora Britain, East Africa, Gujarat
Maya Parmar Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The Open University Milton Keynes, UK
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Dedicated to my dearest parents, Mr Vijay Parmar and Mrs Bindubala Parmar, and all those who journeyed before them
Preface
‘I feel ke [that] this [Britain] is my home, this is where I belong […] even though I was born in Kenya.’ (Vijay Parmar, 23 September 2016)
Returning to Kenya for the first time after 50 years, having settled in Britain, Vijay Parmar, a member of the ‘double diaspora’, articulates, in the code-switching linguistics of English and Gujarati, his reflections around the themes of home-making and belonging. He clearly expresses an attachment to Britain, positioning it as home, though also signposted in that articulation is an interplay with his birthplace of Kenya. Both Vijay Parmar and his wife Bindubala Parmar were born in Nairobi, Kenya, whilst their familial and cultural heritage stems back to Gujarat, India. As teenagers they migrated to Britain: Bindubala Parmar with her respective family in 1970; Vijay Parmar on his own, to join his uncle already located in London in 1964. Their families had established lives in Kenya, over a long period. For example, on Bindubala’s grandmother’s paternal side, genealogical research suggests that the linea
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