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

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-520-23383-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raj, Dhooleka S.

Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dhooleka S. Raj is a Visiting Scholar in Women's Studies at Harvard University. She was formerly a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and Smuts-Hinduja Fellow at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.