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Author | : Susan Koshy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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"A milestone in diaspora studies, this collection will be useful for students of sociology, anthropology, history, politics, globalization, migration, transnationalism, and postcolonial studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Rajesh Rai |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2008-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134105959 |
Download The South Asian Diaspora Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book uses the concept of transnational networks as a way to understand the South Asian diaspora. Offering a unique and original insight into the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of South Asian studies, diaspora and cultural studies, anthropology, transnationalism and globalization.
Author | : Monisha Das Gupta |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822388170 |
Download Unruly Immigrants Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Unruly Immigrants, Monisha Das Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship. Since the 1980s many South Asian immigrants have found the India-centered “model minority” politics of previous generations inadequate to the task of redressing problems such as violence against women, homophobia, racism, and poverty. Thus they have devised new models of immigrant advocacy, seeking rights that are mobile rather than rooted in national membership, and advancing their claims as migrants rather than as citizens-to-be. Creating social justice organizations, they have inventively constructed a transnational complex of rights by drawing on local, national, and international laws to seek entitlements for their constituencies. Das Gupta offers an ethnography of seven South Asian organizations in the northeastern United States, looking at their development and politics as well as the conflicts that have emerged within the groups over questions of sexual, class, and political identities. She examines the ways that women’s organizations have defined and responded to questions of domestic violence as they relate to women’s immigration status; she describes the construction of a transnational South Asian queer identity and culture by people often marginalized by both mainstream South Asian and queer communities in the United States; and she draws attention to the efforts of labor groups who have sought economic justice for taxi drivers and domestic workers by confronting local policies that exploit cheap immigrant labor. Responding to the shortcomings of the state, their communities, and the larger social movements of which they are a part, these groups challenge the assumption that citizenship is the necessary basis of rights claims.
Author | : Ajaya Kumar Sahoo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134919689 |
Download Diaspora and Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to a deeper understanding of contemporary socio-cultural transformations and the way in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of such transformations. The book will be of interest to scholars of diaspora studies, cultural studies, international migration studies, and ethnic and racial studies. This book is a collection of papers from the journal South Asian Diaspora.
Author | : Reshaad Durgahee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2022-02-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316512266 |
Download The Indentured Archipelago Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A historical geographical comparison of the Indo-Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.
Author | : Bandana Purkayastha |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813535824 |
Download Negotiating Ethnicity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active in choosing and constructing their ethnic identities.Focusing on second-generation South Asian Americans, Bandana Purkayastha offers fresh insights into the subjective experience of race, ethnicity, and social class in an increasingly diverse America. Lucidly written and enriched with vivid personal accounts, Negotiating Ethnicity is an important contribution to the literature on ethnicity and racialization in contemporary American culture.
Author | : Gita Rajan |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2006-02-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804767842 |
Download New Cosmopolitanisms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century’s “new cosmopolitans”: flexible enough to adjust to globalization’s economic, political, and cultural imperatives. They are thus uniquely adaptable to the mainstream cultures of the United States, but also vulnerable in a period when nationalism and security have become tools to maintain traditional power relations in a changing world.
Author | : Babli Sinha |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-02-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1135718393 |
Download South Asian Transnationalisms Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United States, continental Europe, the Caribbean, and East Asia, the contributors interrogate the relationships between identity and agency, language and space, race and empire, nation and ethnicity, and diaspora and nationality. This book deploys transnational syntaxes such as cinema, dance, and literature to reflect on social, technological, and political change. Conceiving of the transnational as neither liberatory nor necessarily hegemonic, the authors seek to explore the contradictions, opportunities, disjunctures, and exclusions of the vexed experience of globalization in South Asia. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Author | : Vivek Bald |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2013-07-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 081478643X |
Download The Sun Never Sets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies which has, until recently, largely centered on literary and cultural analyses of an affluent immigrant population. The contributors focus instead on the histories and political economy of South Asian migration to the U.S.—and upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations—presenting a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the shifts in global power that have influenced the paths and experiences of migrants, from expatriate Indian maritime workers at the turn of the century, to Indian nurses during the Cold War, to post-9/11 detainees and deportees caught in the crossfire of the “War on Terror,” these essays reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism. Driven by a shared sense of responsibility among the contributing scholars to alter the profile of South Asian migrants in the American public imagination, they address the key issues that impact these migrants in the U.S., on the subcontinent, and in circuits of the transnational economy. Taken together, these essays provide tools with which to understand the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the place of South Asian migrants within it. Vivek Bald is Assistant Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. Miabi Chatterji received her PhD from New York University in American Studies. She serves on the Board of Directors of the RESIST Foundation and works with non-profit organizations such as NYUFASP, a group of NYU faculty working for shared governance at their institution. Sujani Reddy is Five College Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the Department of American Studies at Amherst College. Manu Vimalassery is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University.
Author | : Anupama Arora |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Download Transnational (un)belongings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study traces the century-old presence of South Asians in the U.S. that makes visible the ways in which these sub-continentals have interacted with and been inserted into the American landscape. Every chapter illuminates how first-generation South Asian Americans live complicated lives as transnationals by simultaneously engaging different locations---the historical and socio-cultural spaces of the present and an enduring connection and self-definition in relation to other homeland(s).