The sun never sets: South Asian migrants in an age of U.S. Power

Bald, Vivek

The sun never sets: South Asian migrants in an age of U.S. Power eng edited by Vivek Bald et..al. - New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2013 - 396 pages

Part I. Overlapping Empires
1 Intimate Dependency, Race, and Trans-Imperial Migration
Nayan Shah
2 Repressing the “Hindu Menace”: Race, Anarchy, and Indian Anticolonialism
Seema Sohi
3 Desertion and Sedition: Indian Seamen, Onshore Labor, and Expatriate Radicalism in New York and Detroit, 1914–1930
Vivek Bald
4 “The Hidden Hand”: Remapping Indian Nurse Immigration to the United States
Sujani Reddy

Part II. From Imperialism to Free-Market Fundamentalism: Changing Forms of Migration and Work
5 Putting “the Family” to Work: Managerial Discourses of Control in the Immigrant Service Sector
Miabi Chatterji
6 Looking Home: Gender, Work, and the Domestic in Theorizations of the South Asian Diaspora
Linta Varghese
7 India’s Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance: A Case Study of Hyderabad
Immanuel Ness
8 Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Transnational Systems of Capital and Activism
Amanda Ciafone
9 When an Interpreter Could Not Be Found
Naeem Mohaiemen

Part III. Geographies of Migration, Settlement, and Self
10 Intertwined Violence: Implications of State Responses to Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities
Soniya Munshi
11 Who’s Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Framings of the Region
Gayatri Gopinath
12 Awaiting the Twelfth Imam in the United States: South Asian Shia Immigrants and the Fragmented American Dream
Raza Mir and Farah Hasan
13 Tracing the Muslim Body: Race, U.S. Deportation, and Pakistani Return Migration
Junaid Rana
14 Antecedents of Imperial Incarceration: Fort Marion to Guantánamo
Manu Vimalassery
Afterword
Vijay Prashad

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Migrations--South Asia --United States

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