Second-generation South Asian [im]migrants: a new frontier of diaspora tourism

ABSTRACT

Diaspora tourism refers to the travel and tourism activities of individuals or communities of a particular ethnicity or culture to their ancestral or historical destinations. The study of diaspora tourism remains a challenging endeavour, mainly due to the apparent inadequacy of previous studies. Diaspora tourism is often viewed as a form of ‘homecoming.’ I argue that tourism in the traditional sense is different from the tourism rganized by the second-generation diaspora because these generations do not simply go to their ancestor’s places to explore the connections. Hence, this research seeks to understand the lived experiences of second-generation immigrants better when they visit their ancestral lands and the influence of second-generation transnationalism on their experiences of diaspora tourism. This study will contribute to the literature on diaspora tourism by comparing first and second-generation immigrants and highlighting the differences in their tourism experiences in the South Asian diaspora.

KEYWORDS:

• Diaspora
• tourism
• culture
• second-generation
• South Asia

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Jannatul Ferdous

Jannatul Ferdous is Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Comilla University, Bangladesh. Dr Ferdous received her bachelor, masters, and M.Phil. in Public Administration from the University of Dhaka. Dr Ferdous contributed extensively to refereed journals and chapters in books. She published seven books. Her current interest includes governance, e-governance, trust, civil service system, gender, public policy, climate change, gender, and development. Currently, she is serving as the Chair of the technical committee of the ‘Combating Gender-Based Violence’ project of UN Women. She is also serving as an assistant proctor of Comilla University.