New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the Us

by Gita Rajan

This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century's "new cosmopolitans" flexible enough to adjust to globalization's economic, political, and cultural imperatives. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475280X
• ISBN13: 9780804752800
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"