The Sikh diaspora in Vancouver
Subtitle: three generations amid tradition, modernity, and multiculturalism
By: Kamala Elizabeth Nayar.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Sikhs -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions.; Sikhs -- Cultural assimilation -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.; Intergenerational relations -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.; Sikhs -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Interviews.; Sikh diaspora.; Sikh Canadians -- Cultural assimilation -- British Columbia -- Vancouver.; Sikh Canadians -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Interviews.; Canadiens d'origine sikh -- Acculturation -- Colombie-Britannique -- Vancouver.; Canadiens d'origine sikh -- Colombie-Britannique -- Vancouver -- Indentité ethnique.; Canadiens d'origine sikh -- Colombie-Britannique -- Vancouver -- Entretiens.; Vancouver (B.C.) -- Ethnic relations.; Vancouver (B.C.) -- Biography.
Genres: Interviews.; Entretiens.; Biography.
Description: "Canadian Sikh have been great changes in their communities, which are primarily concentrated in larger urban centres, especially Vancouver and the British Columbia Lower Mainland. In The Sikh Diaspora in Vancouver, Kamala Elizabeth Nayar illustrates the transition of Sikh social culture as it moves from small Punjabi villages to a Canadian metropolis." "The result of an analysis of the beliefs and attitudes among three generations of the Sikh community, the book highlights differences and tensions with regard to familial relations, child rearing, and religion. In exploring these tensions, Nayar focuses particularly on the younger generation, and underlines the role of Sikh youth as a catalyst for change within the community. She also examines the Sikh community as it functions and interacts with mainstream Canadian society in the light of modernity and multiculturalism, exploring the change, or lack thereof, in attitudes about the functioning of the community, the role of multicultural organizations and the media, continuity in traditional customs, modifications in behaviour patterns, and changes in values."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and index.