Twice migrants: East Africam sikh settlers in Britain (Record no. 42449)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780422789202
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.6946041 BHA
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Personal name Bhachu, Parminder
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Title Twice migrants: East Africam sikh settlers in Britain
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Tavistock
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1985
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 205p.
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Summary, etc. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author among the Sikhs<br/>in Britain, this book focuses on the marriage patterns of a<br/>single community with a common history of migration from<br/>India to Africa, and from there to the UK, from the mid-1960s<br/>onwards.<br/>East African Sikhs are successful settlers: they were able<br/>to establish community and technical skills before they<br/>migrated, and to migrate in complete family units, and<br/>consequently established themselves rapidly as a community<br/>in Britain. But despite this, the community has remained<br/>highly traditionalistic, maintaining a cultural conservatism<br/>and accentuating certain features of the traditional cultural<br/>patterns - for example, the marriage and dowry system - in<br/>spite of the absence of reinforcement from a home country.<br/>Their command over mainstream skills, combined with a lack<br/>of 'home' orientation, has catalysed the settlement process<br/>and the formation of a 'British Asian/Sikh' identity.<br/>This new ethnography, by an anthropologist who is herself a<br/>member of the community she studied, provides fascinating<br/>and important insights into the adaptation of a strongly<br/>traditional group to life in urban Britain.<br/>The author: Parminder Bhachu carried out her doctoral research<br/>among Sikhs while at the University of London and later as a<br/>research fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations<br/>at the University of Warwick; she is currently at the Thomas<br/>Toram Research Unit, University of London.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Emigration and immigration
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