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Britain's Anglo-Indians

Autor Rochelle Almeida
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mai 2017
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian sub-continent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948-62, under the terms of the British Nationality Act of 1948. But sixty odd years after their resettlement in Britain, the "First Wave" Anglo-Indian immigrant community continues to remain obscure among India's global diaspora. This book examines and critiques the convoluted routes of adaptation and assimilation employed by immigrant Anglo-Indians in the process of finding their niche within the context of globalization in contemporary multi-cultural Britain. As they progressed from immigrants to settlers, they underwent a cultural metamorphosis. The homogenizing labyrinth of ethnic cultures through which they negotiated their way--Indian, Anglo-Indian, then Anglo-Saxon--effaced difference but created yet another hybrid identity: British Anglo-Indianness. Through meticulous ethnographic field research conducted amidst the community in Britain over a decade, Rochelle Almeida provides evidence that immigrant Anglo-Indians remain on the cultural periphery despite more than half a century. Indeed, it might be argued that they have attained virtual invisibility--in having created an altogether interesting new amalgamated sub-culture in the UK, this Christian minority has ceased to be counted: both, among South Asia's diaspora and within mainstream Britain. Through a critical scrutiny of multi-ethnic Anglophone literature and cinema, the modes and methods they employed in seeking integration and the reasons for their near-invisibility in Britain as an immigrant South Asian community are closely examined in this much-needed volume.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498545884
ISBN-10: 1498545882
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Cuprins

Chapter 1: The Impact on Anglo-Indians of the British Nationality Act of 1948: Interpretation, Analysis, Critique Chapter 2: Immigrants, Refugees, or Both? Migration Theory and the Anglo-Indian Exodus Chapter 3: Stage One: Competence and Competition Chapter 4: State Two: Conflict and Clash Chapter 5: Stage Three: Adjustment and Accommodation Chapter 6: Stage Four: Assimilation and Integration

Notă biografică

By Rochelle Almeida