“What kind of Indian are you?” Frictions and fractures between Singaporean Indians and foreign-born NRIs
In April 2016, a news blog post titled, “Singaporeans take back Mandarin Gardens from Indian expats”,1 was met with much more interest than is usually garnered by happenings in the community. Describing how migrant Indians asserted dominance over the management committee of a condominium in the...
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| Format: | Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2435 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146542 https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2435 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In April 2016, a news blog post titled, “Singaporeans take back Mandarin
Gardens from Indian expats”,1 was met with much more interest than
is usually garnered by happenings in the community. Describing how
migrant Indians asserted dominance over the management committee of
a condominium in the eastern part of Singapore, the post claimed that as
a result, they started using management funds for activities that unfairly
represented the interests of expatriate Indians. The changes that they had
attempted to make included instituting a cricket pitch for the children
on condominium grounds,2 replacing a Thai restaurant with an Indian
one, and using communal funds for Deepavali celebrations. The post
continued that Singaporeans clawed back control by showing up in force
at the next Annual General Meeting of the condominium, which had even
been dubbed “Mumbai Gardens” as a result of the overrepresentation of
expatriate Indians in the estate. |
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