Lives in Translation : : Sikh Youth as British Citizens / / Kathleen D. Hall.

In Lives in Translation, Kathleen Hall investigates the cultural politics of immigration and citizenship, education and identity-formation among Sikh youth whose parents migrated to England from India and East Africa. Legally British, these young people encounter race as a barrier to becoming truly...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2002
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction: A Different Immigration Story
  • 2. From Subjects to Citizens
  • 3. The Politics of Language Recognition
  • 4. "Becoming like Us"
  • 5. Mediated Traditions
  • 6. "You Can't Be Religious and Be Westernized"
  • 7. "There's a Time to Act English and a Time to Act Indian"
  • 8. Consciousness, Self-Awareness, and the Life Path
  • Epilogue: An Unfinished Story
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments