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Where are you from? : Middle-class migrants in the modern world / Dhooleka S. Raj

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003

Online-Ressource (xvii, 267 p) ; 24 cm

Englisch

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 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; Glossary; A; B; D; G; I; J; K; M; N; O; P; R; S; V; W; Notes

BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index

Print version: Where Are You From? : Middle-Class Migrants in the Modern World

0-520-23383-2 ; 0-520-23382-4 ; 978-0-520-92867-1

978-0-520-23383-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2009

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

DA676.9.S6

305.6/9450421     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Hindus -- England -- London ; South Asia -- Emigration and immigration ; London (England) -- Ethnic relations ; Panjabis (South Asian people) -- England -- London ; South Asians -- England -- London ; Immigrants -- England -- London ; Middle class -- England -- London

South Asia - Emigration and immigration ; Electronic books

Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers how transnational ethnic minorities are circumscribed by nostalgia for culture. Where Are You From? argues that the nostalgia for culture obscures the complexities of change in migrant minority lives and limits the ways the politics of diversity can be imagined by the nation. Based on ethnographic r