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



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Autore: Raj Dhooleka Sarhadi <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Where are you from? [[electronic resource] ] : Middle-class migrants in the modern world / / Dhooleka S. Raj Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 305.6/9450421
Soggetto topico: Hindus - England - London
Immigrants - England - London
Middle class - England - London
Panjabis (South Asian people) - England - London
South Asians - England - London
Soggetto geografico: London (England) Ethnic relations
South Asia Emigration and immigration
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 research with Indian migrants and their children, this book examines how categories of identity, culture, community, and nation are negotiated and often equated.
Titolo autorizzato: Where are you from  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612759116
0-520-92867-9
1-59875-003-8
1-282-75911-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450141003321
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