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SUMMARY:Can an Indian be Chinese? | A workshop presented by Vidura Jang Bahadur (Northwestern)
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DESCRIPTION:Can an Indian be Chinese?  A transnational analysis of the laws that shaped the legal status of the desi Chinese in India  In this chapter\, I take a transnational approach to analyze the laws around nationality\, citizenship and immigration enacted by successive governments in China and pre- and post-independence India. I demonstrate how these laws shape the legal status of the desi Chinese—people of Chinese ancestry residing in the subcontinent since the eighteenth century. I argue that these laws are acts of imagination that are central to the constitution of community\, to territory\, and the state’s jurisdiction. My analysis of these laws\, legislative processes\, and the accompanying discourse around them as well as their interpretation and application by state and non-state actors reveals the tension between citizenship as it is enshrined by lawmakers and as it is lived in the everyday. I show how the interpretation and enforcement of these laws at various historical junctures both enabled and constrained the mobility of the desi Chinese within the British empire\, as well as their ability to claim Indian citizenship and its attendant rights. In addition to providing a much-required understanding of the legal status of the Chinese on the eve of the border conflict between India and China in 1962\, the laws and discourses that I analyze are very critical to understanding how the idea of citizenship has evolved in contemporary India.   Vidura Jang Bahadur is pursuing a PhD in Communication Studies in the program of Rhetoric and Public Culture at Northwestern University\, Evanston. Bahadur's doctoral dissertation\, dissertation\, “Invisible Citizens\,” builds on his photographic project and two-decade long engagement with desi Chinese communities in India—people of Chinese ancestry whose presence in the subcontinent can be traced back to the 18th century. His dissertation explores questions of identity\, belonging\, and citizenship as they are lived\, imagined\, and remade in the everyday\, especially through people’s engagement with images and image-making practices. Here\, image-making practices refers to a set of technologies that inform and are part of both state practices and the encounters that characterize vernacular life. Through his archival and ethnographic research within desi Chinese communities in India\, and in the Indian and broader Chinese diaspora in the United States and Canada\,he examines how individuals negotiate their sense of place within broader collectivities. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of cultural studies\, anthropology\, migration studies\, and the public humanities.  http://vidurajangbahadur.com/\, https://www.desichineseproject.com/  Lunch will be served at 12:30 and the workshop will start shortly after that.   
LOCATION:Harris Hall\, 101\, 1881 Sheridan Road\, Evanston\, IL 60208
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