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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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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2008
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Social justice
Jahr: 2008, Band: 35, Heft: 4, Seiten: 107-122 |
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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. |
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