Where are you from? : Middle-class migrants in the modern world /

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An exploration of ethnic minority cultural change, this text examines first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. It argues that the nostalgia for culture obscures the complexities of change in migrant minority lives.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Panjabis (South Asian people) > England > London.
South Asians > England > London.
Middle class > England > London.
Immigrants > England > London.
Hindus > England > London.
Pendjabi (Peuple d'Asie méridionale) > Angleterre > Londres.
Sud-Asiatiques > Angleterre > Londres.
Classes moyennes > Angleterre > Londres.
Immigrants > Angleterre > Londres.
Hindous > Angleterre > Londres.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Hindus.
Immigrants.
Middle class.
Panjabis (South Asian people)
South Asians.
Einwanderung
Mittelstand
Soziale Identität
Ethnische Identität
Hindu
Pandschabi
Nationale Minderheit
Asiaten
South Asia > Emigration and immigration.
London (England) > Ethnic relations.
Asie méridionale > Émigration et immigration.
Londres (Angleterre) > Relations interethniques.
England > London.
South Asia.
London
Großbritannien
Asiaten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Questions of Ethnicity
  • 2. Being Vilayati, Becoming Asian: Keeping up with the Kapurs, the Chawlas, the Kalias, and the Aggarwals in London
  • 3. "I Am From Nowhere": Partition and Being Punjabi
  • 4. Becoming a Hindu Community
  • 5. The Search for a Suitable Boy
  • 6. Becoming British Asian: Intergenerational Negotiations of Racism
  • 7. Being British, Becoming a Person of Indian Origin
  • 8. "Where Are You Originally From?" Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Transnational Differences.

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