Punjabi Dance Classes in the Auckland Region Assignment
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Running head: PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKALND REGIONPunjabi Dance Classes in the Auckland RegionName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note
1PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKLAND REGIONTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Basic Idea of the Dissertation..........................................................................................................2Research Objectives.........................................................................................................................3Research Questions..........................................................................................................................4Literature Review............................................................................................................................4Coming of Indians to New Zealand.............................................................................................4Dance Culture of India.................................................................................................................6Punjabi “Bhangra” Dance of India..............................................................................................7Indian Diaspora in New Zealand.................................................................................................8Methodology....................................................................................................................................8Analysis.........................................................................................................................................10Results and discussion...................................................................................................................19Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................22Bibliography..................................................................................................................................23
2PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKLAND REGIONIntroductionThe common features that have been observed across several societies are migrants, ethnicdiversity as well as multiculturism. These arise as a result of diversity which exists within thenations and also the increasing rates of global migration. New Zealand is no exception to thisrule as several ethnic groups from around the globe have been attracted to New Zealand due tothe existing pro-immigration policies and the migrant history of the country. This has resulted ina society which is highly diverse and Auckland today boasts of a cultural diversity that is higherthan London [ CITATION Tap14 \l 16393 ]. Asians today form New Zealand’s fourth largestgroup in terms of ethnicity. Chinese and Indians are the leading two minorities in thenation[ CITATION Pea16 \l 16393 ]. Among the Indian population in Auckland, the maximumstrength is of the Gujarati and Punjabi communities and hence several cultural activities of thesecommunities are known to exist in the region. The Punjabi dance classes held at several institutesare among them. This dissertation will be taking into consideration the Punjabi dance classes inthe Auckland region.Basic Idea of the DissertationThe basic idea of this dissertation is to find out about the Punjabi people dancing theircultural identities in a region which can be associated with several cultural identities. It isregarding the people who continue the dance practices that belong to the place of their birth andalso regarding the people who continue to dance the culture which belonged to their forefatherswho had migrated to Auckland region of the nation. Thus, it can be said that this thesis is relatedto transnationalism and migration and also to the “transactional social spaces” which forms acomplex web which go on to construct the lived experience of people in the Auckland region.
3PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKLAND REGIONThe dissertation is also regarding finding out the local which is embodied both here as well asnow and also within the migrated cultural practices. The thesis will be looking at the ways inwhich these practices have been maintained and also at the ways in which they have changed in anew environment in a different nation, in an urban environment that is unique in itself and howthe combination of global and local have taken place to form “glocal”. The dissertation dealswith diversity and multi-culturalism and the ways in which people live together in a region that ismade up of several cultures. It is regarding the ways in which they celebrate value andacknowledge cultures that are distinct and that have diverse practices. It is also regarding thefrictions which take place between various cultures within the communities. It is regarding thereasons as to why or why not people take the decision to be a part of the dance practice classesthat belong to a culture which is distinct from their own. It is also about how cultural danceoccurs in a place which is multi-cultural and diverse. It is about the example which Aucklandsets in the 21st century urban life. It is regarding the urban space and the ways in which peoplehave been imbuing it with life energy as well as presence by means of Punjabi dancing. It isregarding the ways in which the region is brought to life by the people and the ways in whichthey form connections within their communities by means of cultural practices. It is also aboutthe things which make the region special, give the people a feeling that they are at home and howit makes the region feel as being “their place” and also make the region “our place”.Research ObjectivesIt is essential to make a note of the fact that “New Zealand Indian” is a category that is morecomplex than what it was more than thirty years back. Today it consists of several religious,linguistic and regional groups along with various generations and is a representation of the
4PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKLAND REGIONvarious experiences of migration. The specific nature of the ways in which the Punjabi Indiansborn as well as raised in New Zealand actually practice and perform their ethnicity is malleable,dynamic and fluid. In addition to this, being a diasporic trans-national community, negotiationand re-negotiation of their identities take place in varied social contexts and also across theboundaries of the nation. However, the main purpose of conducting this study is to carry out anexploration of the experiences of the Indians in New Zealand in managing, accepting as well asrejecting and also negotiating their identity in their day to day lives by holding “Punjabi danceclasses”. It tries to identify complex and at times problematic ways in which the identity of aPunjabi from New Zealand is managed or mismanaged and the means through which the shapingand reshaping of the boundaries of this particular group residing in the Auckland region takesplace.Research QuestionsThis study will be answering the following questions –1.How does the Punjabi population of New Zealand still identify strongly with its “ethnicancestral roots”?2.How does the New Zealand born Punjabi population define and represent its Indianidentity?Literature ReviewComing of Indians to New ZealandThe popular belief is that Indians are newcomers to New Zealand but this is not true. The firstrecords of an Indian migrant to New Zealand is that of a Bengali sailor who in 1809 had jumped
5PUNJABI DANCE CLASSES IN THE AUCKLAND REGIONship and had started to live with the local Māori[ CITATION Ban06 \l 16393 ]. In the secondhalf of the 19th century several Indians landed on New Zealand’s shores indicating the start of anIndian diaspora. However, the community of South Asia in New Zealand was established by thePunjabi as well as Gujarati families who had migrated prior to Second World War [ CITATIONLec10 \l 16393 ]. The influencing factors for the early migration of the Indians were sponsorpatronage, kinship ties and family. This is called chain migration. In the initial stages thediaspora of Indians in the region was mostly homogeneous in economic and social terms[ CITATION Ban06 \l 16393 ].In the latter part of the 1980s the “post-war immigration” ofIndians came to New Zealand when the immigration became more skill based. The Indiancommunity’s composition was altered by this new immigrant influx into thecountry[ CITATION Zod10 \l 16393 ]. The patterns of immigration led to cultural, social as wellas demographic alterations in the ethnic group of Indians. Even though the classification in thecensus is as Indian ethnic group, homogeneity is lacking in the Indian community. This isreflected by the linguistic and religious diversity of the Indian community. The home nation’sdiversity can be seen in the Indian ethnic group’s composition in New Zealand[ CITATIONPea16 \l 16393 ]. This is largely varied from the original Hindu and Sikh migrants.Linguistically, the migrant Indians mostly speak English and Hindi. The other main languagesspoken by them include Punjabi and Gujarati [ CITATION Zod10 \l 16393 ]. In terms of theiridentity the migrant Indians have been observed to be well versed in the process of articulatingtheir identity in a world that is globalised which means that they are able to handle in a skilfulmanner and put together varied fragments of their culture [ CITATION Kne06 \l 16393 ]. NewZealand’s ethnic Indian group is able to make a shift among several cultural contexts like that ofthe home nation and also of the host nation. This is done relatively easily by them as the Indian
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