Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban

@cug.irins.org

Assistant Professor in Migration and Diaspora
Central University of Gujarat, India

Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban
Dr. Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban, is a Senior Assistant Professor, in the Centre for Diaspora Studies at the Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India and he was a visiting research Fellow (June 2022) at the Centre for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, and the Summer Institute fellow (June- July 2022) at Schusterman Center’s Summer Institute fellowship for Israel Studies at Brandeis University USA. His area of interest includes International Migration, Diaspora, Refugee, South Asia, South Asian Diaspora, Citizenship, Nation, Nationalism, and Transnationalism, Indian and Chinese Diaspora, Jewish Diaspora, Muslim Diaspora, Comparative Diaspora Studies, Contemporary English Literature/s, Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory, Interdisciplinary studies and Research Methodology. He has presented his research papers at various national and international conferences, attended summer schools etc.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Sciences, General Arts and Humanities
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Scopus Publications

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Scholar Citations

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Scholar h-index

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Scopus Publications

  • The Immigrant Policies of Canada and Racism: A Postcolonial Reading of the Indian Experience
    Sajaudeen Chapparban
    India Migration Report 2024 Indians in Canada, 2024
    The history of Indian migration to Canada goes back to the colonial enterprise of the mid- and late-19th century. Indians in Canada comprise the second-largest Asian and non-white community after the Chinese and have a unique experience of being, becoming, and belonging. Being the colonial subject of the British Empire, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1858), Indians were supposed to enshrine equal rights throughout the Empire but that did not work in practice because of the existing racial inequalities. Indians were subject to various discriminatory practices because of their racial and cultural differences in Canadian society. Starting from the colonial exclusionary immigrant policies to contemporary post/Multicultural policies shaped the psyches and experiences of assimilation and exclusion of the Indian community from mainstream white Canadian society. The present postcolonial reading critically analyses a brief history of the immigrant policies of Canada and how those policies affected the migration of non-white to Canada with special reference to the Indian diaspora. It also underscores how race played a vital role in engineering immigrant policies to exclude certain nationalities till the recent past because they did not look like the Canadian, the white. It also critiques the reprehensible reasons behind the introduction of Multiculturalism as state policies and immigrant policies that have shaped the Indians’ and other non-white communities’ experiences in Canadian society. And amidst these “ideal policies” how did the racist sentiments and leadership negotiate and function, which further contributed to the sparks of the racist attacks and discriminations against the coloured Canadians/immigrants in the post-multicultural Canadian society?
  • Literature of Girmitiya: History, Culture and Identity
    Neha Singh, Sajaudeen Chapparban
    Literature of Girmitiya History Culture and Identity, 2023
    This edited book discusses the indentured migration from various aspects and dimensions of Girmitiya, aiming to document the history and identity
  • Literature of Girmitiya: History, Culture, and Identity
    Neha Singh, Sajaudeen Chapparban
    Literature of Girmitiya History Culture and Identity, 2023
  • Agony of survival: Refugees and marginality in India during COVID-19
    Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban
    Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, 2022
    Marginality and refugees live side by side be it a normal situation or any kind of crisis. The COVID-19 not only multiplied the sufferings and marginalities of the refugee communities but also added and strengthened various stigmas, discriminations, and increased phobias about them. Refugees apart, the majoritarian imaginations tried to break the pandora box of COVID-19 on the heads of weaker and underprivileged sections of society which also includes the IDP COVID-19 is a virulent deadliest viral disease that spread across the world from Wuhan, China. It emerged from the family of Coronaviruses and this was the latest SARS-COV-2. It has disrupted human mobility across the national and international borders and imposed worldwide lockdown. IDP is an abridged form of an Internally displaced people/person, undocumented citizens, labour migrants, minorities, and backward classes. We have witnessed the discriminations against these people during the pandemic across the borders. Thus, COVID-19 has exposed the existing structural inequalities in our societies on the grounds of gender, caste, class, religion, race, etc. This chapter tries to analyze the situation of refugees in India during the disquieting time of the COVID-19 crisis, what challenges they face (racial, health-related, economic, political) and how did they struggle to survive through various possible means. It also underlines how legal weakness and socio-economic exclusion and misunderstandings led to the further subjugation, exploitation, and exclusion of refugees from all government schemes and social spheres. This discourse analysis takes the help of data from existing available interviews, reports, and blogs/news reports/newspapers. It also analyzes the role of national and international bodies and NGOs in mitigating the spread of this disease among refugees and helping them in difficult times and what are their challenges while assisting these deprived communities. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, S. Irudaya Rajan;individual chapters, the contributors.
  • Religious Identity and Politics of Citizenship in South Asia: A Reflection on Refugees and Migrants in India
    Sajaudeen Nijamodeen Chapparban
    Development Basingstoke, 2020

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The Indian Jewish Heritage: Cultural Identity and its Role in Indo-Israel Relations
    S Chapparban
    LitCult: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Discourse ISSN: 3049-1266 2 (1 … , 2025
    2025
  • Urdu Diaspora in Canada: Unveiling the Transnational Experiences through Jawaid Danish’s Hijarat Ke Tamashey
    SCS Shaheen
    Muslim English Literature 4 (1), 26-43 , 2025
    2025
  • Memory and tradition of the Bhojpuri diaspora: the socio-cultural aesthetics of Phagwa celebration
    N Singh, G Chand
    South Asian Diaspora 17 (1), 135-158 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Introduction: Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Theorizing Its Culture and (Post) memory
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • The Indenture Experiment in Mauritius: A Comparison Between
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Memory Beyond Black Waters: Mapping History, Language and Culture in Kalapani
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Fiji's Subaltern Women's Cry: Social and Psychological Repercussions
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • A Virtual Museum Experience in Fiji
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Homemaking in Girmitiya Diaspora
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • The Relationship and Impact of Bollywood on the Indian Diaspora
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Mapping locations in indenture ship lists
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • The immigrant policies of Canada and racism: A postcolonial Reading of the Indian experience
    S Chapparban
    India migration report 2024, 289-300 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • 19 The Immigrant Policies of Canada and Racism
    S Chapparban
    India Migration Report 2024: Indians in Canada, 289 , 2024
    2024
  • Resilience and Rebellion: Unveiling Narratives of Women in the Telangana Armed Struggle
    SSS Chapparban
    Osmania Journal of English Studies (OJES) 1 (23) , 2024
    2024
  • Transnational Subalternity: A Sub Theory within Subaltern Studies and the Post Migration Experience
    S Chapparban
    Explorations - E-journal of Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi 17 (17), 21 , 2024
    2024
  • Media and coexistence: review of the documentary The Elephant Whisperers
    S SA, N Singh
    Media Asia 51 (3), 506-511 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Diaspora and Life Narratives: A Conceptual Understanding
    AES Chapparban
    Journal of Literature and Aesthetics 24 (1), 98-105 , 2024
    2024
  • Kerala- Gulf Migration Corridor: Women’s Labour and Gender Stereotypes
    AES Chapparban
    THE THIRD VOICE REALITY AND VISION 6 (Issue No-1 | June, 2024), 110-115 , 2024
    2024
  • FLIGHTS OF FANTASY: IBNE SAFI’S PANACEA FOR A TRAUMATIZED NATION
    SSS Chapparban
    LangLit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal 10 (4 May 2024), 6 , 2024
    2024
  • Transnational Islam and Muslim Politics
    B Brodard, A Köroğlu
    2024

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Religious identity and politics of citizenship in South Asia: a reflection on refugees and migrants in India
    SN Chapparban
    Development 63 (1), 52-59 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 31
  • The Routledge handbook of refugees in India
    SI Rajan
    Taylor & Francis , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 30
  • Hijrat: The Islamic psychology of migration
    S Chapparban
    Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, 1067-1070 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 7
  • Literature of Girmitiya: History, culture, and identity
    N Singh, S Chapparban
    Literature of Girmitiya: History, Culture and Identity, 1-20 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 4
  • Refugees: Status, conditions, and their future
    SI Rajan
    The Routledge Handbook of Refugees in India, 3-32 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 4
  • Psychology of diaspora
    S Chapparban
    Encyclopedia of psychology and religion, 1880-1883 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 4
  • Addressing pain of women through folk culture: A case study of Bhojpuri diaspora in Mauritius
    N Singh
    International Journal of Applied Research 2 (12), 523-525 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 3
  • Memory and tradition of the Bhojpuri diaspora: the socio-cultural aesthetics of Phagwa celebration
    N Singh, G Chand
    South Asian Diaspora 17 (1), 135-158 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Agony of survival: Refugees and marginality in India during COVID-19
    SN Chapparban
    The Routledge handbook of refugees in India, 805-813 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 2
  • The immigrant policies of Canada and racism: A postcolonial Reading of the Indian experience
    S Chapparban
    India migration report 2024, 289-300 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Media and coexistence: review of the documentary The Elephant Whisperers
    S SA, N Singh
    Media Asia 51 (3), 506-511 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Transnational Islam and Muslim Politics: Policies, Identities, and Ideologies
    A Köroğlu
    Istanbul University Press , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Challenges to Muslim Identity in Transnational Spaces: A Comparative Study of Diaspora Fictions after 9/11
    SN Chapparban
    TRANSNATIONAL ISLAM AND MUSLIM POLITICS, 149 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • The Sacred Complex of Ganga Talao Mauritius
    N Singh
    Editorial Board 9 (3), 143 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • The Indian Jewish Heritage: Cultural Identity and its Role in Indo-Israel Relations
    S Chapparban
    LitCult: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Discourse ISSN: 3049-1266 2 (1 … , 2025
    2025
  • Urdu Diaspora in Canada: Unveiling the Transnational Experiences through Jawaid Danish’s Hijarat Ke Tamashey
    SCS Shaheen
    Muslim English Literature 4 (1), 26-43 , 2025
    2025
  • Introduction: Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Theorizing Its Culture and (Post) memory
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • The Indenture Experiment in Mauritius: A Comparison Between
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Memory Beyond Black Waters: Mapping History, Language and Culture in Kalapani
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024
  • Fiji's Subaltern Women's Cry: Social and Psychological Repercussions
    P Chaudhary, N Singh
    Girmitiya Culture and Memory: Navigating Identity, Tradition, and Resilience … , 2024
    2024