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Transnational South Asians : the making of a neo-diaspora

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Transnational South Asians : the making of a neo-diaspora / edited by Susan Koshy and R. Radhakrishnan.

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New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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vi, 378 p.; 23 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Slaves, servants, and sugar barons in Mauritius: diversity and transformation in a historical South Asian diaspora / Marina Carter -- Tazia Fiji!: the place of potentiality / Sudesh Mishra -- Islamophobia and Muslim recognition in Britain / Steven Vertovec -- South Asian assertiveness in Britain / Tariq Modood -- Nuancing the "migrant experience": perspectives from Kerala, South India / Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella -- Dougla logics: East Indians, miscegenation, and the national imaginary / Viranjini Munasinghe -- Roomful of Asha: gendered productions of ethnicity in Britain's "Asian underground" / Falu Bakrania -- Coming out of the Almirah: South Asian Americans struggle with coming out in a gay America that looks nothing like them / Sandip Roy -- The skins of pearls: remembering and forgetting in diaspora narratives / Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera -- Braceros and techno-braceros: guest workers in the United States and the commodification of low-wage and high-wage labour / Sharmilla Rudrappa -- The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora: warmongers or peace-builders? / Camilla Orjuela and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah -- Bollywood, USA: diasporas, nations, and the state of cinema / Jigna Desai.

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