Britain's Anglo-Indians : the invisibility of assimilation / by Rochelle Almeida.
- 作者： Almeida, Rochelle author.
- 出版： Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. [2017]
- 主題： Anglo-Indians , History , Cultural assimilation , Anglo-Indians--History--20th century. , Anglo-Indians--Cultural assimilation--India. , Anglo-Indians--Cultural assimilation--Great Britain.
- ISBN： 9781498545884 (hardcover ;alkaline paper): NT$2659 、 1498545882 (hardcover ;alkaline paper)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 000841120 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
Anglo-Indians form the human legacy created and left behind on the Indian sub-continent by European imperialism. When Independence was achieved from the British Raj in 1947, an exodus numbering an estimated 50,000 emigrated to Great Britain between 1948-62, under the terms of the British Nationality Act of 1948. But sixty odd years after their resettlement in Britain, the "First Wave" Anglo-Indian immigrant community continues to remain obscure among India's global diaspora. This book examines and critiques the convoluted routes of adaptation and assimilation employed by immigrant Anglo-Indians in the process of finding their niche within the context of globalization in contemporary multi-cultural Britain. As they progressed from immigrants to settlers, they underwent a cultural metamorphosis. The homogenizing labyrinth of ethnic cultures through which they negotiated their way-Indian, Anglo-Indian, then Anglo-Saxon-effaced difference but created yet another hybrid identity: British Anglo-Indianness. Through meticulous ethnographic field research conducted amidst the community in Britain over a decade, Rochelle Almeida provides evidence that immigrant Anglo-Indians remain on the cultural periphery despite more than half a century. Indeed, it might be argued that they have attained virtual invisibility-in having created an altogether interesting new amalgamated sub-culture in the UK, this Christian minority has ceased to be counted: both, among South Asia's diaspora and within mainstream Britain. Through a critical scrutiny of multi-ethnic Anglophone literature and cinema, the modes and methods they employed in seeking integration and the reasons for their near-invisibility in Britain as an immigrant South Asian community are closely examined in this much-needed volume.
內容註
The impact on Anglo-Indians of the British nationality act of 1948: interpretation, analysis, critique -- Immigrants, refugees, or both?: migration theory and the Anglo-Indian exodus -- Stage one: competence and competition -- State two: conflict and clash -- Stage three: adjustment and accommodation -- Stage four: assimilation and integration.