TY  - BOOK
AU  - van der Veer,Peter
TI  - Nation and Migration: The Politics of Space in the South Asian Diaspora 
T2  - South Asia Seminar
SN  - 9780812232592
AV  - DS339.4 
U1  - 909 20
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - South Asian diaspora
KW  - South Asians
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgment --; Introduction: The Diasporic Imagination --; 1. A Sikh Diaspora? Contested Identities and Constructed Realities --; 2. Bhakti and Postcolonial Politics: Hindu Missions to Fiji --; 3. Projecting Identities: Empire and Indentured Labor Migration from India to Trinidad and British Guiana, 1836–1885 --; 4. Homeland, Motherland: Authenticity, Legitimacy, and Ideologies of Place among Muslims in Trinidad --; 5. Hindus in Trinidad and Britain: Ethnic Religion, Reification, and the Politics of Public Space --; 6. New York City's Muslim World Day Parade --; 7. Indian Immigrants in Queens, New York City: Patterns of Spatial Concentration and Distribution, 1965–1990 --; 8. Gendering Diaspora: Space, Politics, and South Asian Masculinities in Britain --; 9. New Cultural Forms and Transnational South Asian Women: Culture, Class, and Consumption among British South Asian Women in the Diaspora --; Contributor --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access
N2  - Peter van der Veer and the contributors to this volume explore the relationship between South Asian nationalism, migration, ethnicity, and the construction of religious identity. Although nationality and diaspora seem to represent opposite ideas and values, the authors argue that nationalism is strengthened, even produced, by migration
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