Digital Diasporas: Labour, Affect and Technomediation of South Asia

Technomediation has been a key shaper of identity for bodies in the physical and virtual global space. Using a series of case studies ranging from IT outsourcing to health-care tourism, South Asian Digital Diasporas explores who we become when we enter these technomediated environments with particular bodies, socio-cultural literacies and technical skills.

By looking at the specific placement of South Asian bodies within these spaces as an adaptable, mobile workforce the book examines the mediation of race, affect and labour in a global socio-economic environment. Noting the subalternization of South Asian digital diasporas it highlights the complexities and nuances in the racing of the South Asian body and illuminates the innately unequal power structure of the virtual workspace.