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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Asian diaspora."”.
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IN THE WEB WE CONNECT: USES OF SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG THE SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA IN THE U.S.
… patterns of use of social media among the South Asian diaspora living in the U.S. In doing so, the study uses a broader framework of bridging and bonding social capital to examine how South Asian people in the U.S. maintain relationships with friends both back home and in their host society via …
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Acculturation and food consumption of South Asian diaspora in the UK: moderating influence of Religious identity and the neighbourhood
… more than 10% ethnic minorities, and the South Asians constitute an ethnic group. Living in a dissimilar culture may cause an acculturative stress on the immigrants. They may undergo the process of adapting to a new culture. On the contrary, some individuals may attempt to maintain their …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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Shiftings of the self : towards a deterritorialized view of identity and belonging : the case of East and Central African-Asians in Canada
… study, members of the East and Central African-Asian diaspora residing in Canada. The respondents are Ismaili by faith, a spiritual identity that underpins all other aspects of their identity construction. They may identify as Indian by origins, African by place of birth or upbringing, and …
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Racial Identity Within the Indo-Caribbean Community: A Proposed Model
<p>Part of the South Asian diaspora, the Indo-Caribbean community is a particularly marginalized minority community as a result of colonialism. Indo-Caribbeans are only considered the majority ethnic group in the country of Guyana, where there is a high rate of suicide mostly among Indo-Caribbean …
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Identity Denied: Minority-Within-Minority Discrimination and the Contradictions of British Multiculturalism
… and religious discourse within the South Asian diaspora, where notions of theological purity and loyalty to Islam have become deeply entwined with national identity. In this context, the Ahmadiyya community is both politically and theologically othered, viewed with suspicion due to its …
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Tales from the diaspora : a narrative enquiry into second-generation South Asian Britons
… interviews, of seven second-generation South Asian Britons; five men and two women, aged at the time of the interviews between 35 to 50 years. My participants are higher professionals who have married out of their ethnic and linguistic communities, and who are parents of dual-heritage children …
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Sind and the partition of India, c.1927-1952
… comprise the world’s most widespread South Asian diaspora. When the British divided their Indian empire in 1947, unlike Punjab, Bengal, and Assam, they did not partition Sind (today a part of Pakistan), despite the minority campaign for a partition of the region. Sind’s partition in 1947 was …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
… through. East Africa is also home to a South Asian diaspora that arrived before the European powers and now advance India's exponential trade relations with Africa.</p> <p>M.G Vassanji's <i>The In-Between World of Vikram Lall</i> caricatures one of these "Asian Shylocks" to critique the …
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Situating the Identities and Experiences of Asian American Pacific Islander Students at an Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution
Background: Asians and Asian Americans neither look alike nor speak the same language. Despite many differences in the Asian diaspora, the people who define it are often viewed as a homogenous entity or population. This homogenization is also evident in educational contexts (B., Chang, 2017). The …
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Cruelty Counts: Anti-Asian Violence and its Queer Afterlives
… examines the afterlives of violence in queer Asian/American and diasporic visual and performance culture. As a broad response to the conjuncture of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed attention to anti-Asian violence, this project rethinks violence beyond its familiar terms as a scene …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada, explores the multifaceted narratives of South Asian migrants navigating cultural, social, and systemic landscapes in Canada. By employing a hybrid qualitative methodology, the study integrates three distinct yet …
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American Desi : representation and reproduction in diaspora /
This study explores ~ow South Asian diasporic film represents and reproduces South Asian identity in the diaspora. It commences with a review of the literature in cultural studies and post-colonial theory on identity in the diaspora. A textual analysis of three films: American Desi, …