The Diasporic Pursuit of Home among the transnational Punjabi Community

  Migration in a globalised era has many socio-cultural and economic impacts on the people in the home and host country. Transnational character of the diasporic existence is the fact of life today. A talk by Dr. Steve Taylor, Northumbria University UK was organised by the Panjab University, Chandigarh at ICSSR, North Western Center Region. The talk was chaired by Prof. Manjit Singh and moderated by Prof. Surinder K. Kaur, both from the Department of Sociology of the same University on . His ethnographic study was among the Chammar and Jatt Sikhs in Wolverhampton, South Hall, New Castle in UK and in Eastern Punjab with an sample size of 1200 that includes 200 from UK and 1000 from Eastern Punjab. Dr Taylor was looking at the concept of home, or in other words what is the meaning of home for transnational punjabi community. Are they feeling lost or still feels their Virsa (heritage)  in Punjab? He was analy