Journal article
The Rights of 'Return': Ethnic Identities in the Workplace among Second-Generation Indian-American Professionals in the Parental Homeland
Journal of ethnic and migration studies, v 37(9), pp 1313-1330
Nov 2011
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Abstract
This article explores the salience of ethnicity for second-generation Indian-American professionals who 'return' from the US to their parental homeland, India. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 48 second-generation Indian-Americans in India, it examines when and how they adopt ethnic identities in the workplace. My findings suggest that, bolstered by their transnational experiences and backgrounds, returnees construct ethnic identities and utilise ethnic options that reflect the cultural and economic environments of their adopted homeland. At the same time, and often contemporaneously, work relationships, experiences and personal interactions with those they encounter in the parental homeland factor into their transnational identity constructions. Also proposed is a preliminary framework within which to explore the conditions that facilitate the construction and assertion of returnees' ethnic identities in the workplace in India.
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- Title
- The Rights of 'Return': Ethnic Identities in the Workplace among Second-Generation Indian-American Professionals in the Parental Homeland
- Creators
- Sonali Jain - Duke University
- Publication Details
- Journal of ethnic and migration studies, v 37(9), pp 1313-1330
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000299205700002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84859118144
- Other Identifier
- 991021862241204721
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- Demography
- Ethnic Studies