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Nation and Migration : The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora / Peter van der Veer.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 Available online
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- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- South Asia Seminar (47th : 1991 : University of Pennsylvania)
- Series:
- Anniversary Collection
- South Asia Seminar
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Asian diaspora.
- South Asians--Foreign countries.
- South Asians.
- South Asia--Emigration and immigration.
- South Asia.
- South Asia--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.) : 7 illus.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination
- 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities
- 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji
- 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836–1885
- 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad
- 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space
- 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade
- 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965–1990
- 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain
- 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora
- Contributor
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781512807837
- 1512807834
- OCLC:
- 979634327
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