ABSTRACT The recent emigration from Indian Punjab has included Spain into the global Sikh diaspora. This group is selected to study the production of ‘diaspora space’ and the transformation of the territory included in it. To achieve this objective, we have focused on the historical migratory waves, the itineraries followed by immigrants and their internal mobility, which provides the essential mechanism for the expansion of diaspora space. Alongside this, an attempt has been made to delimit the extent of virtual space of diaspora through transnational communication links from Barcelona (the municipality with largest Sikh population in Spain) to rest of the world. The preliminary finding from the mixed methodology used in the research illustrated that the Sikh diaspora is a dynamic physical and virtual space, which is expanding firstly with intense immigrant flows from Punjab to new destinations, and secondly with the spread of advanced communication source like internet calling and other messaging services. Their appropriation of territory is visible in the form of Gurudwaras (Sikh temples) as a node of symbolic and communitarian network of the Sikh diaspora situated at different parts of Spain.

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锡克教侨民和西班牙：移民、超机动性和空间

摘要 最近从印度旁遮普省的移民已将西班牙纳入全球锡克教散居地。选择这个小组来研究“散居空间”的产生和其中包含的领土的转变。为实现这一目标，我们关注历史移民浪潮、移民所遵循的路线及其内部流动，这为侨民空间的扩展提供了必要的机制。除此之外，还尝试通过从巴塞罗那（西班牙锡克教人口最多的城市）到世界其他地方的跨国通信联系来划定侨民虚拟空间的范围。研究中使用的混合方法的初步发现表明，锡克教侨民是一个动态的物理和虚拟空间，它首先随着从旁遮普邦到新目的地的大量移民流而扩大，其次随着互联网电话和其他消息服务等先进通信资源的普及。他们对领土的侵占以 Gurudwaras（锡克教寺庙）的形式可见，作为位于西班牙不同地区的锡克教侨民的象征性和社区网络的节点。