South Asians overseas: migration and ethnicity

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List of figures List of maps List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Introduction: themes in the study of the South Asian diaspora Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec Part I. South Asians in Colonial and Post-Colonial Contexts: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec 1. Indians in Southeast Asia: imperial auxiliaries Hugh Tinker 2. Women under indenture in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 Jo Beall 3. Indians in the French Overseas Departments: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion Singaravelou 4. Oil boom and recession in Trinidad Indian villages Steven Vertovec 5. The Fiji Indians: marooned at home Victor Lal 6. The political position of Indians in South Africa Anthony Lemon 7. East African Asians through a hundred years Michael Twaddle Part II. South Asians in Contemporary Western Countries and the Middle East: Introduction Colin Clarke, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec 8. South Asian countries as competitors on the world labour market Beatrice Knerr 9. Asian Indians in the United States: a geographic appraisal Surinder M. Bhardwaj and N. Madhusudana Rao 10. Migration and kinship: the differential effect of marriage rules on the processes of Punjabi migration to Britain Roger Ballard 11. Transcontinental families - Gujarat and Lancashire: a comparative study Elinor Kelly 12. Boom and gloom: the success and failure of South Asians in Britain Vaughan Robinson 13. The participation of Asians in the British political system Muhammad Anwar 14. Bangladeshi community organisation and leadership in Tower Hamlets, East London John Eade 15. Manchester Pakistanis: division and unity Pnina Werbner Author index Subject index.

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