Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about
shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our …

This exciting new collection grew out of a major international conference held at the
University of Sussex in the Fall of 1999, co-sponsored by the Transnational Communities …

The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well as the
aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their political and mobilising …

A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender
in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of'home'between Morocco and Italy as …

By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left
India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse …

Desi Land is Shalini Shankar's lively ethnographic account of South Asian American teen
culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. Shankar focuses on how South Asian …

In this book, two leading authorities on migration and nationhood attempt to bridge the gap
between experience and analysis, looking at:* the disorientating effects of space and time …

A retrospective of the migration literature in various disciplines obscures women's
participation in migration. In spite of all of the" women on the move" throughout the twentieth …

How do people handle contrasting self-conceptions? Do they necessarily compartmentalize
their personal lives from their professional lives? Do minority and immigrant groups, in …

Abstract This issue on South Asian transnational marriages brings diverse practices and
networks into detailed ethnographic focus. Gender and agency are key themes explored in …