Multiple homemaking : the ethnic condition in Indian diaspora societies / Ruben Gowricharn.

"This book develops a theoretical perspective on homemaking as the ethnic condition of Indian diaspora communities. It draws on empirical case studies to elucidate the multiple homemaking practices of two overseas Indian groups and their relations to their homeland, namely the Surinami Hindustanis a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gowricharn, Ruben S., 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
East Indians > Foreign countries > Social conditions.
East Indians > Foreign countries > Ethnic identity.
East Indian diaspora.
Transnationalism.
Physical Description:ix, 182 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : the issue of immigrant homemaking
  • British Indian ethnogenesis : their historical homemaking in the Caribbean
  • Ethnicity and political integration : making the political home
  • Homemaking by Douglarisation?
  • Institutional homemaking of Dutch Hindustanis
  • Second-generation transnationalism
  • Technology, social networks and culture of young Hindustanis
  • Shopping in Mumbai : transnational homemaking.