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Diaspora and identity : perspectives on South Asian diaspora / edited by Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 041582544X
  • 9780415825443
  • 9781138850712
  • 1138850713
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS13 .D53 2014
Contents:
Introduction : issues of identity in the South Asian diaspora / Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer -- Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position / Dibyesh Anand -- Another world of experience? : transnational contexts and the experiences of South Asian Americans / Bandana Purkayastha -- 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 / Pnina Werbner -- 'My language, my people' : language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians / Rusi Jaspal and Adrian Coyle -- The Sikh gurdwara in Finland : negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants' identities / Laura Hirvi -- Communal networks and gender : placing identities among South Asians in Kenya / Pascale Herzig -- Trajectory of social mobility : Asian Indian children coming of age in New York City / Rupam Saran -- The power of technology : a qualitative analysis of how South Asian youth use technology to maintain cross-gender relationships / Arshia U. Zaidi, Amanda couture and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale -- Place of subcaste (jati) identity in the discourse on caste : examination of cast in the diaspora / P. Pratap Kumar.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection DS 13 .D53 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5168560

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : issues of identity in the South Asian diaspora / Ajaya Kumar Sahoo and Gabriel Sheffer -- Diasporic subjectivity as an ethical position / Dibyesh Anand -- Another world of experience? : transnational contexts and the experiences of South Asian Americans / Bandana Purkayastha -- 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 / Pnina Werbner -- 'My language, my people' : language and ethnic identity among British-born South Asians / Rusi Jaspal and Adrian Coyle -- The Sikh gurdwara in Finland : negotiating, maintaining and transmitting immigrants' identities / Laura Hirvi -- Communal networks and gender : placing identities among South Asians in Kenya / Pascale Herzig -- Trajectory of social mobility : Asian Indian children coming of age in New York City / Rupam Saran -- The power of technology : a qualitative analysis of how South Asian youth use technology to maintain cross-gender relationships / Arshia U. Zaidi, Amanda couture and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale -- Place of subcaste (jati) identity in the discourse on caste : examination of cast in the diaspora / P. Pratap Kumar.

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