Transnational South Asians : the making of a neo-diaspora / edited by Susan Koshy and R. Radhakrishnan.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Koshy, Susan
Radhakrishnan, R. (Rajagopalan)
Language:English
Published: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
South Asian diaspora.
South Asians > Migrations.
South Asians > Foreign countries.
Physical Description:vi, 378 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Slaves, servants, and sugar barons in Mauritius: diversity and transformation in a historical South Asian diaspora / Marina Carter
  • Tazia Fiji!: the place of potentiality / Sudesh Mishra
  • Islamophobia and Muslim recognition in Britain / Steven Vertovec
  • South Asian assertiveness in Britain / Tariq Modood
  • Nuancing the "migrant experience": perspectives from Kerala, South India / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella
  • Dougla logics: East Indians, miscegenation, and the national imaginary / Viranjini Munasinghe
  • Roomful of Asha: gendered productions of ethnicity in Britain's "Asian underground" / Falu Bakrania
  • Coming out of the Almirah: South Asian Americans struggle with coming out in a gay America that looks nothing like them / Sandip Roy
  • The skins of pearls: remembering and forgetting in diaspora narratives / Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera
  • Braceros and techno-braceros: guest workers in the United States and the commodification of low-wage and high-wage labour / Sharmilla Rudrappa
  • The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora: warmongers or peace-builders? / Camilla Orjuela and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah
  • Bollywood, USA: diasporas, nations, and the state of cinema / Jigna Desai.