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Where are you from? : Middle-class migrants in the modern world / Dhooleka S. Raj.

By: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi, 1969-Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. Description: xvii, 267 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0520233832 (pbk. : acidfree paper)Subject(s): Panjabis (South Asian people) -- England -- London | South Asians -- England -- London | Middle class -- England -- London | Immigrants -- England -- London | Hindus -- England -- London | South Asia -- Emigration and immigration | London (England) -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 305.6/9450421 LOC classification: DA676.9. | S6R34 2003Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Table of contents | Publisher description
Contents:
1. Questions of Ethnicity 2. Being Vilayati, Becoming Asian: Keeping up with the Kapurs, the Chawlas, the Kalias, and the Aggarwals in London 3. "I Am From Nowhere": Partition and Being Punjabi 4. Becoming a Hindu Community 5. The Search for a Suitable Boy 6. Becoming British Asian: Intergenerational Negotiations of Racism 7. Being British, Becoming a Person of Indian Origin 8. "Where Are You Originally From?" Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Transnational Differences
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-256) and index.

1. Questions of Ethnicity 2. Being Vilayati, Becoming Asian: Keeping up with the Kapurs, the Chawlas, the Kalias, and the Aggarwals in London 3. "I Am From Nowhere": Partition and Being Punjabi 4. Becoming a Hindu Community 5. The Search for a Suitable Boy 6. Becoming British Asian: Intergenerational Negotiations of Racism 7. Being British, Becoming a Person of Indian Origin 8. "Where Are You Originally From?" Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Transnational Differences