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Note from the publisher.
Several years ago I had an organizing staff study the ways in which gender identities were manipulated to reinforce racial and class hierarchies. When I posed the question, "If we were to organize people into a best-scenario identity, what would that identity include?", I was confronted with shocked resistance. Organizing people into an identity is something the rightwing does, not our side, I was told.
With all due respect, that was the wrong position. If we don't organize people to embrace identities that enable a fight for liberation, we are lost to the other side's image of us. This issue is full of stories of people who are organizing themselves and their folks into a new identity. In New York, activists are using conflicts between South Asian immigrants and the INS to assert an alternative to the "good immigrant" and ...
- Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asian Immigrants in the...
- Magazine article from: Social Forces KURIEN, PREMA ANN June 1, 2001 700+ words
...model minority" lives of South Asian immigrants -- marital violence against...abused women who had approached South Asian Women's Organizations (SAWO...with the issue. In the case of South Asian women in the U.S. for instance...
- SBI plans attract South Asian immigrants in Canada.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. October 13, 2006 700+ words
SBI plans attract South Asian immigrants in Canada Toronto, Oct...formulated a plan to attract South Asian immigrants, a largely untapped market...to their departure, new South Asian immigrants will be able to establish...
- AUSTRALIA: TRAUMA OF PARTITION HAUNTS SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANTS.
- News wire article from: Interpress Service August 15, 2007 700+ words
By Neena Bhandari SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 15, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- South Asian immigrants in Australia are still struggling to make sense of a colossal man-made tragedy that they experienced: the simultaneous partition...
- Hunted by their families: they're kidnapped, stalked, and sometimes killed. In...
- Magazine article from: Marie Claire Dowling, Denise August 1, 2003 700+ words
...in order to keep inheritances and land within the family. (Such marriages also allow South Asian bridegrooms to obtain U.K. visas.) South Asian culture dictates that daughters are the embodiment of their family's honor, and that a...
- Changing colours: spatial assimilation and new racial minority...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology Myles, John Hou, Feng January 1, 2004 700+ words
Abstract: The social complexion of Canadian cities have been irreversibly altered since the 1960s as new waves of visible minority immigrants have replaced traditional white, European, migrant flows. For Canada and other nations with little prior history of "racial" diversity, this development
- Poetry and Fiction of S. Asian Immigrants
- Newspaper article from: India Abroad Shivaji Sengupta July 7, 1995 700+ words
...and Fiction of S. Asian Immigrants. "Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian Writers." Edited...born into family of South Asian background. Experiencing...the realities of the South Asian Diaspora across continents...
- Elder care giving in South Asian families: implications for social service *.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies Gupta, Rashmi Pillai, Vijayan K. September 22, 2002 700+ words
...concentration of immigrants. The state of Texas in particular attracts a large number of Hispanic as well as Asian immigrants. South Asian families are more likely to contain first generation elders than non-immigrant native populations. The...
- TO ARRANGE OR NOT: MARRIAGE TRENDS IN THE SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY
- Magazine article from: Ethnic Studies Review Ternikar, Farha December 1, 2008 700+ words
...social practices" that South Asian immigrants have transported to the...the marriage options that South Asian immigrants have and how religion influences...contributions to the study of South Asian immigrants, there is no detailed research...
Source: HighBeam Research, Note from the publisher.