The Diaspora and its Impact on Host Country: A Case of Indian Diaspora in United States

Abstract

The migration is a continuous process, people has been migrating from one part of world to another from ancient times. With the process of Globalization, the migration from Home County to Host country has increased tremendously over the last decades. People are migrating from their homeland to host country for better and comfortable life. This has created a serious impact on host societies in both positive and negative ways. However, the Indian Diaspora in the US popularly known as Indian Americans, with a population of around three million, have impacted the host country such as United States in positive terms. They are well placed in the education and economic fields in the US. They have become a productive section of US society and high level of education has significantly helped the Indian American community to achieve this status. They have left their mark as academicians, entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, engineers and financiers. They have made excellent progress in the field of science, technology, medicine and academia. Not only they have very well assimilated in the American society but also they have retained their Indianness, family values and contributed towards spreading Indian culture in the United States. Thus the present paper tries to examine the positive impact of the Indian community in the United States by analyzing their social, cultural, economic and political role in the United States.