ABSTRACT This paper is a critique of India’s highly selective current foreign policy engagement among its diaspora populations, with special reference to medical graduates from the South African Indian diaspora. It begins from the realistic position that India cannot possibly be expected to accommodate the needs of all of its 25 million diaspora spread out in the different countries in which they are resident. But they can, as respondents for this project emphasized, possibly be more creative in the ways that they engage with intellectual and innovative potential from the diaspora populations that are not from the elitist entrepreneurial segments. In South Africa for instance, people of Indian origin (PIOs) medical graduates continue to suffer consequences of the inhibitive affirmative action policies in the country. Restricted to the African majority, affirmative action and budgetary restraints in health care delivery are denying hundreds of PIO graduates from acquiring Registrar posts that will lead them towards specialized medical qualifications. Against the background of such restraints many graduates are considering finding alternative relief outside of South Africa, and are raising questions about what the Indian state could do to nurture their talents. In view of this reality, this paper will engage in a brief overview of the non-resident Indian and PIO contributions to India’s foreign exchange reserves and development; how the state of India can possibly consider this situation for its longer term benefit, and how Goran Hyden’s theory of the ‘economy of affection’ can be implemented to develop a more inclusive nexus between the diaspora populations and their ancestral homeland.

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Pravasi Bharati Divas 和印度侨民通过“情感经济”的外展：修辞和现实

摘要 本文批判了印度在其侨民中高度选择性的当前外交政策参与，特别提到了来自南非印度侨民的医学毕业生。它始于这样一个现实立场，即不可能指望印度满足其散居在不同国家的所有 2500 万侨民的需求。但是，正如该项目的受访者所强调的那样，他们可以更有创意地利用非精英企业家群体的侨民群体的智力和创新潜力。例如，在南非，印度裔 (PIO) 医学毕业生继续遭受该国抑制性平权行动政策的后果。仅限于非洲大多数人，医疗保健提供方面的平权行动和预算限制使数百名 PIO 毕业生无法获得注册员职位，从而使他们获得专业医疗资格。在这种限制的背景下，许多毕业生正在考虑在南非以外寻找替代的救济方式，并质疑印度政府可以做些什么来培养他们的才能。鉴于这一现实，本文将简要概述非居民印度和 PIO 对印度外汇储备和发展的贡献；印度政府如何考虑这种情况以谋求长期利益，