Nation and Migration : The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora /

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Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is stre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: van der Veer, Peter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Edición:Reprint 2016
Colección:South Asia Seminar
Temas:
South Asian diaspora.
South Asians > Foreign countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgment
  • Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination
  • 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities
  • 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji
  • 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836-1885
  • 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad
  • 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space
  • 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade
  • 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965-1990
  • 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain
  • 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora
  • Contributor
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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