Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation Among Asian Indian Immigrants

by Jean Bacon

Book Overview

Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community--Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan area--bound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195099737
• ISBN13: 9780195099737
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"