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Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

vi, 378 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

South Asians--Foreign countries.
South Asians--Ethnic identity.
South Asians--Emigration and immigration.
South Asians--Migrations.
South Asian diaspora.
Transnationalism.

Other Authors:

Koshy, Susan.
Radhakrishnan, R. (Rajagopalan)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0195695895 (hbk.)
9780195695892 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2008331360

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)