Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity
Prema Kurien
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Description for Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity
hardcover. This work is based on ethnographic research in three communities in Kerala, India, which sent large numbers of workers to the Middle East for temporary jobs. It explores the factors responsible for the striking differences in the groups' patterns of migration and migration-induced social change. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFN; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
Co-Winner of the 2003 American Sociological Association's Asia/Asian American book award.
Based on ethnographic research in three communities (Ezhava Hindu, Mappila Muslim, and Syrian Christian) in Kerala, India, which sent large numbers of workers to the Middle East for temporary jobs, Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity explores the factors responsible for the striking differences in the groups’ patterns of migration and migration-induced social change. Most broadly, Prema Kurien seeks to understand what ethnicity is and how it affects people’s activities and decisions. She argues that, in each case, a community-specific nexus of religion, gender, and status shaped migration, and was, in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813530895
SKU
V9780813530895
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About Prema Kurien
Prema A. Kurien is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Southern California and a research associate for the Project on Religion and the New Immigrants in Los Angeles, at the University of Southern California's Center for Religion and Civic Culture.
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