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Title Migration, mobility and multiple affiliations : Punjabis in a transnational world / edited by S. Irudaya Rajan, V.J. Varghese, Aswini Kumar Nanda
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Contents Introduction: Transnational world and Indian Punjab : contemporary issues / S. Irudaya Rajan, Aswini Kumar Nanda and V.J. Varghese -- Part I.A historical survey -- Punjabis in America / Bruce La Brack -- Punjabi-Sikh migration : Latin America : a geographic profile / Swarn Singh Kahlon -- Punabis/Sikhs in Canada : dimensions of integration / Usha George and Ferzana Chaze -- Punjabis in UK / Shinder S. Thandi -- Part II. Shifting contours of migration -- Volatile sanctuary : transnational migration and political asylum / Radhika Chopra -- Punjabi illegal migrants in France : tales of suffering, invisibility and marginalization / Nisha Kirpalani, Christine Moliner and Saad Muhammad -- Migration as a transnational enterprise : migrations from eastern Punjab and the question of social licitness / V.J. Varghese and S. Irudaya Rajan -- Part III. Social structures and organizational links -- The ambiguity of Punjabi transnationalism : caste and development within a transnational community / Steve Taylor, Manjit Singh and Deborah Booth -- Punjabi diasporas : conceptualising and evaluating impacts of diaspora-homeland linkages / Shinder S. Thandi -- Punjabi immigrant organisations in the UK and their transnational connections / Thomas Lacroix -- Part IV. Education and migration -- Transnational education of Punjabi Sikh children in Britain : moral quandaries of diasporic parenting / Kaveri Qureshi -- Transnational health institutions, global nursing care chains, and the internationalization of nurse education in Punjab / Margaret Walton-Roberts -- Part V. Family networks -- The Punjabis in Italy : the role of ethnic and family networks in immigration and social integration processes / Barbara Bertolani -- Gender, the life course and home making across Tanzania, Britain and Indian Punjab / Kanwal P.K. Mand -- Inter-generational tensions and cultural reproduction in a Punjabi community in England / Neelu Kang
Summary "Discusses caste consciousness and identity abroad, remittances, Sikh religious identity, traditions and practices, politics of 'Sikh separatism', transnational connections, crimes and violence, music, politics, religious transnationalism and social remittances"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2016)
Subject Panjabis (South Asian people) -- Migrations
Sikhs -- Migrations.
Transnationalism.
Caste.
Ethnicity.
Affiliation (Psychology)
Emigrant remittances.
Panjabis (South Asian people) -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions
Sikhs -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions
Sikh diaspora -- Social conditions
castes.
ethnicity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Affiliation (Psychology)
Caste
Emigrant remittances
Emigration and immigration
Ethnicity
Sikhs -- Migrations
Transnationalism
SUBJECT Punjab (India) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject India -- Punjab
Form Electronic book
Author Irudaya Rajan, S. (Sebastian), 1959- editor.
Varghese, V. J. (Vekkal John), editor.
Nanda, A. K., editor.
ISBN 9781316337950
1316337952
9781316570173
1316570177