Harbingers of global change : India's techno-immigrants in the United States / Roli Varma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varma, Roli, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, East Indian--United States.

Foreign workers, East Indian.

East Indians--Employment--United States.

East Indians.

Professional employees--United States.

Professional employees.

Engineers, Foreign.

Scientists, Foreign.

East Indians--Employment.

United States.

Scientists, Foreign--United States.

Engineers, Foreign--United States.

Technology transfer--United States.

Technology transfer.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

viii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

Harbingers of Global Changes enriches a revealing case study of a little-understood group of immigrants with the contemplation of broader social dynamics, including assimilation, acculturation, and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice. Author Roli Varma reveals how familiar obstacles to social equity-such as the silicon ceiling-are complicated by the unique constellation of social pressures confronting a group of scientists and engineers whose talent is highly valued, and yet whose presence as culturally unfamiliar human beings is received with unease and ambivalence. The analysis combines U.S. political and social history as it bears on immigration policy with a sensitive and balanced treatment of how India's techno-immigrants negotiate career, family, and loyalty to social-cultural traditions. Harbingers of Global Changed not merely a much needed addition to the emergent literature on the plight of international immigrant-professionals; it is a visionary look at where global society is headed in the twenty-first century, an epoch in which all human beings may become foreigners in the virtual techno-marketplace.

Contents:

Introduction

Immigration history

Insourcing expertise

Diaspora : long distance nationalism

Stereotypes and negotiated identity

The Silicon ceiling

Why so few?

(Re)modeling "minority"

Professional norms and organizational reality

The debate over science

Harbingers of global change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198 and index.

ISBN:

0739114581

OCLC:

62728523

Publisher Number:

9780739114582