Transnational South Asians : the making of a neo-diaspora

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1. Introduction (Susan Koshy) I SOCIAL NETWORKS, CULTURAL PRACTICES, AND THE PROCESSES OF SETTLEMENT 2. Slaves, Servants, and Sugar Barons in Mauritius: Diversity and Transformation in a Historical South Asian Diaspora (Marina Carter) 3. Taz?a Fiji! The Place of Potentiality (Sudesh Mishra) II RELIGION, DISPLACEMENT, AND BELONGING 4. Islamophobia and Muslim Recognition in Britain (Steven Vertovec) 5. South Asian Assertiveness in Britain (Tariq Modood) 6. Nuancing the 'Migrant Experience': Perspectives from Kerala, South India (Camilla and Filippo Osella) III RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE POLITICS OF LOCATION 7. Dougla Logics: Miscegenation and the National Imaginary in Trinidad (Viranjini Munasinghe) 8. Roomful of Asha: Gendered Productions of Ethnicity in Britain's 'Asian Underground' (Falu Bakrania) 9. Coming Out of the Almirah: South Asian Americans Struggle with Coming out in a Gay America that Looks Nothing Like Them (Sandip Roy) IV LABOUR REGIMES AND TRANS-ETHNIC HISTORIES OF DIASPORA 10. The Skin of Pearls: Remembering and Forgetting in Diaspora Narratives (Suvendrini Perera) 11. Braceros and Techno-Bracers: Guest Workers in the United States and the Commodification of Low Wage and High Wage Labour (Sharmila Rudrappa) V LONG-DISTANCE PATRIOTISM: HOST COUNTRIES, HOMELANDS, AND DIASPORAS 12.The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora: Warmongers or Peacebuilders (Camila Orjuela and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah) 13. Bollywood, USA: Diasporas, Nations, and the State of Cinema (Jigna Desai) Notes on Contributors Index

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