Sikhs in Barcelona. Characteristics, idiosyncrasy and the causalities in the creation and the settlement of a community in the global frame of transnational migrations
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https://doi.org/10.3989/dra.2021.017Keywords:
Sikhs, Barcelona, Migration and Diaspora, Globalization and Transnational CommunitiesAbstract
There are Sikhs living in different parts of Spain, but the oldest, most stable and organized community is settled in Barcelona. The Sikhs immigrated to Spain because of a number of reasons such as their idiosyncrasy; their historical and cultural background; and also because of phenomena such as globalization and global and transnational fluxes. The main aim of this paper is to make the Sikh community of Barcelona visible - and also the Sikhs in other parts of Spain. I am going to describe and explain why and how the Sikhs arrive in Barcelona and how they organize and live here, taking into account the differences between other places of settlement. Therefore, I have done anthropological fieldwork for more than 18 months, using the multi-sited ethnography in places such as Barcelona, London, Delhi and the Punjab. I have also done an extensive review of published literature.
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