Strangers in a not-so-strange land : Indian American immigrants in the global age
Department
Anthropology
Document Type
Book
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Description
This text is a case study of the Asian Indians in the United States. Almost unheard of three decades ago and almost nonexistent in the United States in the 1970s, this community is, on the average, the highest educated and claims the highest average family income of any ethnic community in North America. They are part of and representative of the new kind of immigrant coming to America. This text delves into the subject of immigration by focusing on how the immigration of highly educated and professionally trained migrants, which began in the late 1960s/early 1970s, differs from and challenges the traditional concepts of migration studies. The case study takes a transnational perspective and discusses the role of globalization and the current world system to form a more comprehensive study than those studies that have dominated migration studies and anthropology to date.
Call number in WMU's library
E184.E2 H455 2004
ISBN
0534613128
Publication Date
2004
Publisher
Wadsworth
City
Belmont
Disciplines
Anthropology | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Citation for published book
Helweg, Arthur W. Strangers in a Not-so-Strange Land: Indian American Immigrants in the Global Age. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004. Print.
Recommended Citation
Helweg, Arthur Wesley, "Strangers in a not-so-strange land : Indian American immigrants in the global age" (2004). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 348.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/348