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By Gita Rajan,Shailja Sharma

This booklet bargains an in-depth examine the ways that expertise, shuttle, and globalization have altered conventional styles of immigration for South Asians who stay and paintings within the usa, and explains how their well known cultural practices and aesthetic wants are fulfilled. they're provided because the twenty-first century’s “new cosmopolitans”: versatile adequate to regulate to globalization’s financial, political, and cultural imperatives. they're therefore uniquely adaptable to the mainstream cultures of the U.S., but in addition susceptible in a interval while nationalism and defense became instruments to take care of conventional energy family in a altering world.

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