Migration, mobility and multiple affiliations : Punjabis in a transnational world /

"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irudaya Rajan S
Other Authors: Irudaya Rajan, S., Varghese, V. J., Nanda, A. K.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Delhi Cambridge university press 2015
Subjects:
Panjabis (South Asian people)
Sikhs
Transnationalism.
Caste.
Ethnicity.
Affiliation (Psychology)
Emigrant remittances.
Panjabis (South Asian people) > Foreign countries
Sikhs > Foreign countries
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transnational world and Indian Punjab : contemporary issues / S. Irudaya Rajan and Aswini Kumar Nanda
  • 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 / Usha George and Ferzana Chaze
  • Punjabi migration, Settlement and experience in the 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.

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