Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Tables and Figures

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

Transnational World and Indian Punjab: Contemporary Issues

pp 1-36

Part I - A Historical Survey

pp 37-38

1 - Punjabis in America

pp 39-67

2 - Punjabi–Sikh Migration: Latin America – A Geographic Profile

pp 68-90

3 - Punjabis/Sikhs in Canada

pp 91-104

4 - Punjabi Migration, Settlement and Experience in the UK

pp 105-130

Part II - Shifting Contours of Migration

pp 131-132

5 - Ziddi Mundeh: Political Asylum, Transnational Movement and the Migrations of Men

pp 133-155

6 - Punjabi Illegal Migrants in France: Tales of Suffering, Invisibility and Marginalization

pp 156-171

7 - Migration as a Transnational Enterprise: Migrations from Eastern Punjab and the Question of Social Licitness

pp 172-202

Part III - Social Structures and Organizational Links

pp 203-204

8 - The Ambiguity of Punjabi Transnationalism: Caste and Development within a Transnational Community

pp 205-233

9 - Punjabi Diasporas: Conceptualizing and Evaluating Impacts of Diaspora–Homeland Linkages

pp 234-259

10 - Punjabi Immigrant Organizations in the UK and their Transnational Connections

pp 260-278

Part IV - Education and Migration

pp 279-280

11 - Sending Children ‘Back Home’ for their (Mis)education

pp 281-295

12 - Transnational Health Institutions, Global Nursing Care Chains, and the Internationalization of Nurse Education in Punjab

pp 296-316

Part V - Family Networks

pp 317-318

13 - Punjabis in Italy: The Role of Ethnic and Family Networks in Immigration and Economic Integration

pp 319-337

14 - Gender, the Life Course and Home Making across Tanzania, Britain and Indian Punjab

pp 338-359

15 - Inter-generational Tensions and Cultural Reproduction in a Punjabi Community in England

pp 360-374

Contributors

pp 375-376

Index

pp 377-380