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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"South 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 …
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Acculturation and food consumption of South Asian diaspora in the UK: moderating influence of Religious identity and the neighbourhood
… hosting 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
My 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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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
… experiences of colonialism and partition in South Asia as critical to understanding the construction of theological boundaries and suspicion toward anything perceived as Western or colonial. These historical legacies continue to shape political and religious discourse within the South Asian …
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Navigating Ties Amid Divides: South Asian Panethnic Identification and Belonging
This dissertation examines how South Asian identity is constructed, expressed, and negotiated within Canada’s multicultural and racialized context, with a specific focus on the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Drawing on forty-five in-depth interviews with participants of South Asian ancestry from eight …
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Tales from the diaspora : a narrative enquiry into second-generation South Asian Britons
… through 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 …
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Sind and the partition of India, c.1927-1952
… Hindus 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 …
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Annihilation And Accumulation: Postcolonial Literatures On Genocide And Capital
<p>The emergence of South-South relations in politics and economics refracts strangely through the literature produced in these postcolonial regions. Two primary worldviews emerge in these texts. The first focuses on the continued presence of imperial powers in the South and their culpability in …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… Storytelling, 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 …