Migration, mobility and multiple affiliations : Punjabis in a transnational world / edited by S. Irudaya Rajan, V.J. Verghese, Ashwini Kumar Nanda
- Bib ID:
- 6934335
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations (2010 : [Chandigarh, India])
- Description:
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- Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2015
- ©2015
- viii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781107117037 (hardback)
- 1107117038 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"Discusses caste consciousness and identity abroad, remittances, Sikh religious identity, traditions and practices, politics of 'Sikh separatism', transnational connections, crimes and violence, music, politics, religious transnationalism and social remittances".
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: Transnational world and Indian Punjab : contemporary issues / S. Irudaya Rajan, Aswini Kumar Nanda and V.J. Varghese
- Part I. A historical survey
- Punjabis in America / Bruce La Brack
- Punjabi-Sikh migration : Latin America : a geographic profile / Swarn Singh Kahlon
- Punabis/Sikhs in Canada : dimensions of integration / Usha George and Ferzana Chaze
- Punjabis in UK / Shinder S. Thandi
- Part II. Shifting contours of migration
- Volatile sanctuary : transnational migration and political asylum / Radhika Chopra
- Punjabi illegal migrants in France : tales of suffering, invisibility and marginalization / Nisha Kirpalani, Christine Moliner and Saad Muhammad
- Migration as a transnational enterprise : migrations from eastern Punjab and the question of social licitness / V.J. Varghese and S. Irudaya Rajan
- Part III. Social structures and organizational links
- The ambiguity of Punjabi transnationalism : caste and development within a transnational community / Steve Taylor, Manjit Singh and Deborah Booth
- Punjabi diasporas : conceptualising and evaluating impacts of diaspora-homeland linkages / Shinder S. Thandi
- Punjabi immigrant organisations in the UK and their transnational connections / Thomas Lacroix
- Part IV. Education and migration
- Transnational education of Punjabi Sikh children in Britain : moral quandaries of diasporic parenting / Kaveri Qureshi
- Transnational health institutions, global nursing care chains, and the internationalization of nurse education in Punjab / Margaret Walton-Roberts
- Part V. Family networks
- The Punjabis in Italy : the role of ethnic and family networks in immigration and social integration processes / Barbara Bertolani
- Gender, the life course and home making across Tanzania, Britain and Indian Punjab / Kanwal P.K. Mand
- Inter-generational tensions and cultural reproduction in a Punjabi community in England / Neelu Kang.
- Notes:
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- "After discussions with the editors of this volume, we organized an International conference on Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations : Punjabis in a Transnational World partly funded by the MOIA and the EC, at CDS during 22-23 March, 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Panjabis (South Asian people) -- Migrations -- Congresses
- Sikhs -- Migrations -- Congresses
- Caste -- Congresses
- Ethnicity -- Congresses
- Affiliation (Psychology) -- Congresses
- Emigrant remittances -- Congresses
- Panjabis (South Asian people) -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses
- Sikhs -- Foreign countries -- Social conditions -- Congresses
- Globalization -- Congresses
- Punjab (India) -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
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- Published
- Publication date:
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