From Traitor to Collaborator: Nepali Social Action in the Context of Immigration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora

The author challenges the idea of immigration as a unilinear experience progressing to the endpoint of assimilation. She maintains that scholarly research has trained the eye to look at immigration that way, but that the experience is a changeable process that includes dialogue, resistance and actio...

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1. VerfasserIn: Koirala-Azad, Shabnam (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2008
In: Social justice
Online Zugang: Volltext (Verlag)
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Assimilation (Sociology) > Social aspects
Assimilation of immigrants
Cultural assimilation of indigenous peoples
Emigration & immigration & psychology
Emigration & immigration > Social aspects
Nepali people
Social Action
Social History
Transnationalism > Social aspects
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Zusammenfassung:The author challenges the idea of immigration as a unilinear experience progressing to the endpoint of assimilation. She maintains that scholarly research has trained the eye to look at immigration that way, but that the experience is a changeable process that includes dialogue, resistance and action. As illustration, the author discusses Nepali immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area who established a transnational social action group called Kartabya. Hometown associations, home-host country relationships, indigenous practices and misunderstandings between those who remain and those who leave are mentioned.