Indian Diaspora crossing border-relation between origin and destination

印度侨民有着悠久的历史，随着最近的全球化，他们在包括日本在内的世界许多地方定居下来。该项目着眼于印度居民如何创造“自己的空间”的生活空间，并以印度人在东京的主要存在的知名地区之一西kasai为案例研究。现在大约有17000名印度人居住在日本，仅在东京就有6400名印度人居住。随着20世纪90年代的单身工程师家庭的加入，工作场所以外的社交网络在21世纪开始加强，形成了一个印度社区。互联网的全球网络似乎更迅速、更有力地塑造了民族身份和“自己的地方”。为印度人建立了许多社会组织和宗教设施。印度的节日如新年、圣日、排灯节和逾越节都是有组织的。已经建立了以英语授课的印度学校。看来，除了宗教和母语之外，国籍观念似乎提供了更多需要的门槛，让人们聚在一起，感受自己是一个社区。

Indian Diaspora has a long history and with the recent globalization, they are found settling down in many parts of the world including Japan. The project looks into how the Indian residents create the living space as`own space', taking a case study of one of the well-known areas for dominant presence of Indians, Nishikasai, in Tokyo. Now about 17000 Indians reside in Japan, and in Tokyo alone about 6400 Indians live. With families joining the single engineers of 1990s, social network outside the work place started strengthening in 2000s, leading to formation of an Indian community. The global network of internet seems to shape ethnic identity and `own place', more quickly and strongly. A number of social organizations and religious facilities got developed for Indians. Indian festivals like New Year, Holy, Diwali and Dusserah are organized. Indian schools with English medium have been set up. It appears that besides religion and mother tongue, idea of nationality seems to have provided more-needed threshold for getting together and feeling themselves as community.