Asha Chand
Asha Chand is a Lecturer in Journalism at the School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney. She was born in Fiji where she grew up on a sugar cane farm. She began working as a journalist for the Fiji Sun which was shut down at gunpoint during the 1987 coup. She then joined the News Corporation owned national daily, The Fiji Times, where she was chief of staff, before migrating to Australia in 1998. Asha is a PhD candidate at UWS and her research focus is migration, matchmaking and the media in the Fiji Indian community in Sydney. She curated a three-month long exhibition titled The Chutney Generations at the Liverpool Regional Museum in Sydney in 2007. The exhibition, as well as a 48-page colour catalogue, has featured some aspects of her research. Chutney was used as a metaphor to describe the twice displaced Fiji Indians in their multicultural spaces.
Asian Australian Studies Research Network
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