Diaspora and Identity (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on South Asian Diaspora
Redaktion: Sahoo, Ajaya; Sheffer, Gabriel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism.

This book is a collection of papers from the journal South Asian Diaspora.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134919611
• Artikelnr.: 57006665

Autorenporträt

Ajaya Kumar Sahoo is currently an Assistant Professor & Director of the Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad. His areas of research interests comprise international migration, South Asian diaspora, transnationalism, religion, and ageing. He is the Editor of South Asian Diaspora and Reviews Editor of Journal of Intercultural Studies. Gabriel Sheffer is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His research interests are in the field of diaspora and transnationalism, diaspora-homeland relations, and ethnic politics. He has authored numerous publications on topics related to his research interests. He is the editor of Modern Diasporas in International Politics (Croom Helm/St. Martin's Press, a pioneering text in the political study of diasporas).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Issues of Identity in the South Asian Diaspora 2.
Diasporic Subjectivity as an Ethical Position 3. Another world of
experience? Transnational contexts and the experiences of South Asian
Americans 4. Revisiting the UK Muslim diasporic public sphere at a time of
terror: from local (benign) invisible spaces to seditious conspiratorial
spaces and the 'failure of multiculturalism' discourse 5. 'My language, my
people': language and ethnic identity among British born South Asians 6.
The Sikh gurdwara in Finland: negotiating, maintaining and transmitting
immigrants' identities 7. Communal networks and gender: placing identities
among South Asians in Kenya 8. Trajectory of social mobility: Asian Indian
children coming of age in New York City 9. The power of technology: a
qualitative analysis of how South Asian youth use technology to maintain
cross-gender relationships 10. Place of subcaste (jati) identity in the
discourse on caste: examination of caste in the diaspora