Diaspora and identity : perspectives on south Asian diaspora / edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar (Editor)
Sheffer, Gabriel (Editor)
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2014.
Subjects:
Asian diaspora.
South Asians > Race identity.
South Asians > Foreign countries.
South Asia > Emigration and immigration.
Physical Description:viii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : issues of identity in the South Asian diaspora / Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer
  • Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position / Dibyesh Anand
  • Another world of experience? : transnational contexts and the experiences of South Asian Americans / Bandana Purkayastha
  • Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere at a time of terror : from local (benign) invisible spaces to seditious conspiratorial spaces and the 'failure of multiculturalism' discourse / Pnina Werbner
  • 'My language, my people' : language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians / Rusi Jaspal and Adrian Coyle
  • The Sikh gurdwara in Finland : negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants' identities / Laura Hirvi
  • Communal networks and gender : placing identities among South Asians in Kenya / Pascale Herzig
  • Trajectory of social mobility : Asian Indian children coming of age in New York City / Rupam Saran
  • The power of technology : a qualitative analysis of how South Asian youth use technology to maintain cross-gender relationships / Arshia U. Zaidi, Amanda couture and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale
  • Place of subcaste (jati) identity in the discourse on caste : examination of cast in the diaspora / P. Pratap Kumar.