This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century's "new cosmopolitans" flexible enough to adjust to globalization's economic, political, and cultural imperatives. They are thus uniquely adaptable to the mainstream cultures of the United States, but also vulnerable in a period when nationalism and security have...
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for Sout...
Why is it that certain minorities in Europe are seen as a threat to social cohesion?
Most literature views the issues raised by minorities through either the lens of immigration or the assimilation paradigm. In Postcolonial minorities in Britain and France, Shailja Sharma offers an alternative, redefining the discourse of 'us-versus-them' by locating its origins in this schism between nation and state. Modern migrants find themselves caught between these two entities - their presence and status is regulated by the state but their level of assimilation and...
Why is it that certain minorities in Europe are seen as a threat to social cohesion?
