| Description |
vi, 378 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
South Asian diaspora.
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South Asians -- Migrations.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125541 -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005907
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| Author |
Koshy, Susan.
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Radhakrishnan, R. (Rajagopalan)
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| LC no. |
2008331360 |
| ISBN |
9780195695892 hardback |
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0195695895 hardback |
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