Little Bangladesh - Ahmed, Zahir
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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of Bangladeshi diaspora in USA on themes such as economic advantages of migration beyond sociological models of globalization; Bangladeshi diaspora and Little Bangladesh; oral histories of settlement and incoming migrants; imagined homelands; trans-business; and Islam and transnationalism.

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This volume presents a comprehensive overview of Bangladeshi diaspora in USA on themes such as economic advantages of migration beyond sociological models of globalization; Bangladeshi diaspora and Little Bangladesh; oral histories of settlement and incoming migrants; imagined homelands; trans-business; and Islam and transnationalism.
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Autorenporträt
Zahir Ahmed is a Professor of Anthropology at Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his BSS and MSS in sociology from the University of Chittagong and his MA and DPhil in social anthropology from the University of Sussex. He has published several articles and book chapters. He has worked on the Bangladeshi diaspora in London, Birmingham, Leicester, and Brighton while affiliated with the University of Manchester and University of Sussex. He also received funding from the IIES as a Senior Fulbright Fellow to conduct research on the Bangladeshi diaspora in the USA, and Southern California in particular. During this, he was affiliated with the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He has collaborated with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, London on the research project "Parliamentary Democracy and Public Engagement in Westminster, Ethiopia and Bangladesh." He is a founder chair of the Society for Anthropological Research Bangladesh (SARB). He is also a long-time member of American Anthropological Association (AAA), and currently serves on a specially commissioned Task Force on the Proliferation of Border and Security Walls.