Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World Shams Tahseen
Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World Shams Tahseen Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their…
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Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World Shams Tahseen
Challenging the commonly held perception that immigrants' lives are shaped exclusively by their sending and receiving countries, Here, There, and Elsewhere breaks new ground by showing how immigrants are vectors of globalization who both produce and experience the interconnectedness of societies--not only the societies of origin and destination, but also, the societies in places beyond. Drawing on rich ethnographic data, interviews, and analysis of the social media activities of South Asian Muslim Americans, Shams uncovers how different dimensions of the immigrants' ethnic and religious identities connect them to different elsewheres in places as far-ranging as the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. Tahseen Shams posits a new concept for thinking about these places that are neither the immigrants' homeland nor hostland--the elsewhere.
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