Harbingers of global change
Subtitle: India's techno-immigrants
By: Roli Varma.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780739114582
Subjects: Alien labor, East Indian -- United States; East Indians -- Employment -- United States; Professional employees -- United States; Scientists, Foreign -- United States; Engineers, Foreign -- United States; Technology transfer -- United States; Transnationalism
Description: "Harbingers of Global Change enriches a revealing case study of a little-understood group of immigrants with the contemplation of broader social dynamics, including assimilation, acculturation, and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice. Author Roli Varma reveals how familiar obstacles to social equity - such as the silicon ceiling - are complicated by the unique constellation of social pressures confronting a group of scientists and engineers whose talent is highly valued, and yet whose presence as culturally unfamiliar human beings is received with unease and ambivalence.

The analysis combines U.S. political and social history as it bears on immigration policy with a sensitive and balanced treatment of how India's techno-immigrants negotiate career, family, and loyalty to social-cultural traditions."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Immigration history; title: Insourcing expertise; title: Diaspora : long distance nationalism; title: Stereotypes and negotiated identity; title: The Silicon ceiling; title: Why so few?; title: (re)modeling "minority"; title: Professional norms and organizational reality; title: The debate over science; title: Harbingers of global change.