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Keep Moving On: The Migration of a Punjabi-Sikh Family

Author : Amrit Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781777334802
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Keep Moving On: The Migration of a Punjabi-Sikh Family written by Amrit Singh and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017, Amrit Singh experienced the deaths of his grandmother and uncle. Soon after, his mother was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Raised in a family that lacked open communication among each other, Amrit struggled to understand his place in the world as the lives and histories of the people closest to him were being lost to time. When the family comes together to care for his mother over the course of her treatment, Amrit begins a journey of unearthing and preserving the stories of his elders. He discovers the details of his father's years travelling undocumented and working at sea, the political and economic factors that sparked his family's relocation out of Punjab, the challenges they faced as new immigrants in Canada, and how key moments of his life still connect to his parents' migration. 'Keep Moving On' is a memoir that finds parallels between family members born in different eras and circumstances, and explores themes of mental health, intergenerational trauma, religion, death, and race through the lens of Amrit's upbringing as a first generation Sikh-Canadian. It is a story of discovery, hope, resilience, and the importance of making the most of the present.

The Sikh Diaspora

Author : Norman Gerald Barrier
Publisher : South Asia Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sikh Diaspora written by Norman Gerald Barrier and published by South Asia Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Quarters of the Night

Author : Tara Singh Bains
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565183
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Four Quarters of the Night written by Tara Singh Bains and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life. Tara Singh was raised within an amritdhari, or baptised, Sikh tradition in a small village in Punjab, India; his values and identity are firmly rooted in Punjabi Sikh culture. As a child and adolescent he suffered mercilessly from his father's verbal and physical cruelty, but the support that he drew from his village environment and his religion gave him strength. He married, according to traditional practices, the woman that his family had arranged for him to wed. Sponsored by his sister, Tara Singh emigrated to Canada in the early 1950s and settled in British Columbia. He came alone, without his wife and children, as most Punjabis did. His greatest initial shock in Canada was his experience with racism, and its impact on his relatives who tried to persuade him to shave his beard and abandon his turban - two sacred symbols of the Sikh. Refusing to betray his beliefs, he resisted the relentless pressure of his family just as he later fought against the exploitation of immigrants in the saw mills where he worked. Tara Singh became active in fighting for immigrant rights and protecting the Sikh faith in Canada. The Four Quarters of the Night is more than one man's life story: his single voice reveals much about the collective experience of immigrants. Tara Singh's narrative presents an evocative picture of a newcomer's experiences in a land of foreign customs, culture, and religious beliefs. Hugh Johnston, to whom Tara Singh told his story, has created a unique and invaluable document in immigration and ethnic history.

Sikh Diaspora

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004257233
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Sikh Diaspora written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikh Diaspora: Theory, Agency, and Experience is a collection of essays offering new insights into the diverse experiences of Sikhs beyond the Punjab. Moving beyond migration history and global in their scope, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological approaches to engage with diaspora theory, agency, space, social relations, and aesthetics. Rich in substantive content, these essays offer critical reflections on the concept of diaspora, and insight into key features of Sikh experience including memory, citizenship, political engagement, architecture, multiculturalism, gender, literature, oral history, kirtan, economics, and marriage.

Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations

Author : S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107117038
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Migration, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations written by S. Irudaya Rajan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume discusses how the Punjabi transnational experience has impacted Indian transnationalism and led to a diverse diaspora.

Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles

Author : Wendy L. Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780549130727
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Punjabi Sikh Families in Los Angeles written by Wendy L. Klein and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the articulation and socialization of identification among Punjabi Sikh families in an American diaspora through extensive ethnographic analysis of the lives of 12 families and several Sikh educational programs in the Los Angeles area. The study draws from theoretical and methodological perspectives in linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, and sociology to examine identification as an emergent, discursive process in a diasporic community by analyzing individual and family autobiographical narratives and reflections, along with everyday practices of child and youth socialization among Indian immigrant families in general, and Sikhs in particular. This analysis considers how Sikhs' everyday experiences, post-9/11, have shifted their understandings of religion and ethnicity in American society and mobilized efforts for managing difference in their everyday lives. Data collection for this dissertation included three years of participant observation across home and community settings, open-ended interviews with family members and teachers, and videotaping naturally occurring interactions in a Sunday Sikh educational program and in Sikh summer camp programs. The documentation of children's experiences and family and community practices highlights the challenges that children face in understanding differences, coming to terms with divergent cultural practices, and managing family and community expectations. The theoretical framework developed for this dissertation sheds light on how to approach the study of identification in transnational populations and reveals how linguistic anthropology, in particular, can contribute to studies of youth and community practices in anthropological accounts of religious groups and to studies of immigration and education.

Work, Family and Integration

Author : Meenakshi Thapan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819955815
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Work, Family and Integration written by Meenakshi Thapan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the migration of Indians (mainly from the Punjab region in north India) to parts of northern Italy, especially the Emilia-Romagna region. It analyzes the mobility patterns of migrants who occupy a niche in the labour market and unpacks the forward and backward linkages that migrants imagine, experience, and endure, not only in the context of the materiality of livelihood opportunities and income generation in Italy but also through affect, as potential immigrants and then as migrants, in a territorial and imagined space. The book unravels uncertainties and anxieties about identity among youth, women, and men through in-depth interviews. It also examines a reassertion of cultural tropes that portray identity in marked and vexed ways. The book brings a mutual recognition and acceptance of diversity, or its lack, in a European nation. It stands out for its nuanced ethnographic detail, its attention to the voices of youth and women, and exploration of their relationship with the host community. The book, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of migration and the culture of migration in different countries.

The Lost Homestead

Author : MARINA. WHEELER
Publisher : Hodder Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781473677760
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Homestead written by MARINA. WHEELER and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Accommodation Without Assimilation

Author : Margaret A. Gibson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801495038
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Accommodation Without Assimilation written by Margaret A. Gibson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic portrait which reveals why Sikh high school students, despite language barriers, prejudice, and significant cultural differences, often outperform their majority peers and other United States minority groups.

Sikhs in Europe

Author : Kristina Myrvold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317055055
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Sikhs in Europe written by Kristina Myrvold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sikhs in Europe are neglected in the study of religions and migrant groups: previous studies have focused on the history, culture and religious practices of Sikhs in North America and the UK, but few have focused on Sikhs in continental Europe. This book fills this gap, presenting new data and analyses of Sikhs in eleven European countries; examining the broader European presence of Sikhs in new and old host countries. Focusing on patterns of migration, transmission of traditions, identity construction and cultural representations from the perspective of local Sikh communities, this book explores important patterns of settlement, institution building and cultural transmission among European Sikhs.

Making Ethnic Choices

Author : Karen Leonard
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903646
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Making Ethnic Choices written by Karen Leonard and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining and changing perceptions of ethnic identity.

Militant and Migrant

Author : Radhika Chopra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136704353
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Militant and Migrant written by Radhika Chopra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the links between militancy and migration, two movements that transformed the socio-political landscape of late 20th-century Punjab. Re-analysing existing writings and drawing on fieldwork and local history archives, it presents a different framework to analyse the politics and social history of Punjab.

Young Sikhs in a Global World

Author : Knut A. Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134790813
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Young Sikhs in a Global World written by Knut A. Jacobsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempting to carve out a place for themselves in local and global contexts, young Sikhs mobilize efforts to construct, choose, and emphasize different aspects of religious and cultural identification depending on their social setting and context. Young Sikhs in a Global World presents current research on young Sikhs with multicultural and transnational life-styles and considers how they interpret, shape and negotiate religious identities, traditions, and authority on an individual and collective level. With a particular focus on the experiences of second generation Sikhs as they interact with various people in different social fields and cultural contexts, the book is constructed around three parts: 'family and home', 'public display and gender', and 'reflexivity and translations'. New scholarly voices and established academics present qualitative research and ethnographic fieldwork and analyse how young Sikhs try to solve social, intellectual and psychological tensions between the family and the expectations of the majority society, between Punjabi culture and religious values.

The Migration of Indian Human Capital

Author : Faizal bin Yahya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134018177
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Migration of Indian Human Capital written by Faizal bin Yahya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the trends and motivations of human capital flows from India into this region. Focusing in particular on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, the book provides an analysis of Indian labour in a variety of sectors, including information technology (IT) sector, academia, banking, oil and gas. Based on empirical data, the book provides an analysis of current trends in the flow of human capital from India to Southeast Asia.

Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era

Author : Anjali Roy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501470
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Punjab, Punjabi and Punjabiat in the Transnational Era written by Anjali Roy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book moves away from originary myths of region and identity that have dominated academic and mediatized representations of Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan after the Partition of 1947, and instead focuses on the role of the imagination in producing Punjab. It deconstructs Punjab as an ethno-spatial, ethno-linguistic and ethno-cultural construct produced by the communities who dwell there, those who have left it and those formed by new narratives of the region.By isolating imaginings of Punjab that are not centred on exclusivist regional, linguistic, sectarian or caste perspectives, contributions to this book propose the concept of free-flowing cartographies in relation to Punjab, which facilitate its imaginings as a geographical region, a social construct and a state of consciousness. The region is simultaneously imagined as a small place, a neighbourhood, a city, and a village, but also as a performative practice and a certain ways of doing things. Through focusing on a number of Punjabi spaces and communities and engaging with Punjab as a geographical region, social construct and state of consciousness, the papers in the book hope to contribute to broader debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, micronationalism, and new identity narratives emerging in the twenty first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Diaspora.

The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters

Author : Balli Kaur Jaswal
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062645161
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters written by Balli Kaur Jaswal and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirming, witty family drama—an Indian This Is Where I Leave You—about three Punjabi sisters embarking on a pilgrimage to their homeland to lay their mother to rest. The British-born Punjabi Shergill sisters—Rajni, Jezmeen, and Shirina—were never close and barely got along growing up, and now as adults, have grown even further apart. Rajni, a school principal is a stickler for order. Jezmeen, a thirty-year-old struggling actress, fears her big break may never come. Shirina, the peacemaking "good" sister married into wealth and enjoys a picture-perfect life. On her deathbed, their mother voices one last wish: that her daughters will make a pilgrimage together to the Golden Temple in Amritsar to carry out her final rites. After a trip to India with her mother long ago, Rajni vowed never to return. But she’s always been a dutiful daughter, and cannot, even now, refuse her mother’s request. Jezmeen has just been publicly fired from her television job, so the trip to India is a welcome break to help her pick up the pieces of her broken career. Shirina’s in-laws are pushing her to make a pivotal decision about her married life; time away will help her decide whether to meekly obey, or to bravely stand up for herself for the first time. Arriving in India, these sisters will make unexpected discoveries about themselves, their mother, and their lives—and learn the real story behind the trip Rajni took with their Mother long ago—a momentous journey that resulted in Mum never being able to return to India again. The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a female take on the Indian travel narrative. "I was curious about how different the trip would be if it were undertaken by women, who are vulnerable to different dangers in a male-dominated society," Balli Kaur Jaswal writes. "I also wanted to explore the tensions between tradition and modernity in immigrant communities, and particularly how those tensions play out among women like these sisters, who are the first generation to be raised outside of India." Powerful, emotionally evocative, and wonderfully atmospheric, The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters is a charming and thoughtful story that illuminates the bonds of family, sisterhood, and heritage that tether us despite our differences. Funny and heartbreaking, it is a reminder of the truly important things we must treasure in our lives.

Beyond Ethnic Loneliness

Author : Prasanta Verma
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 1514007428
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Ethnic Loneliness written by Prasanta Verma and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up as an Indian American immigrant in white Southern culture, Prasanta Verma unpacks the exhausting effects of cultural isolation and marginalization as well as the longing to belong and the hope of finding safe friendships in community. Our places of exile can become places of belonging–to ourselves, to others, and to God.