Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity
Subtitle: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: August 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780813530895
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; Social groups & communities; Sociology of Religion; Migration (Social Aspects); History; Return migration; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Kerala (India); Religion; India; History - General History; Anthropology - General; Emigration & Immigration; Ethnic Studies - General; Asia - India & South Asia; Social conditions; Ethnicity; Kerala
Description: "Based on ethnographic research in three ethno-religious communities (Ezhava Hindu, Mappila Muslim, and Syrian Christian) in Kerala, India, which sent large numbers of workers to the Middle East for temporary jobs, Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity explores the factors responsible for the striking differences in the groups' patterns of migration and migration-induced social change. Most broadly, Prema Kurien seeks to understand what ethnicity is and how it affects people's activities and decisions.

She argues that in each case, a community-specific nexus of religion, gender, and status shaped migration and was, in turn, transformed by it."--BOOK JACKET.