Harbingers of Global Change - India's Techno-Iimmigrants in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Roli Varma is currently Regents Lecturer and associate professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of New Mexico! Albuquerque. Klappentext Harbingers of Global Change enriches a revealing case study of a little-understood group of immigrants with the contemplation of broader social dynamics! including assimilation! acculturation! and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice. Varma offers more than a much needed addition to the emergent literature on the plight of international immigration-professionals; Harbingers provides a visionary look at where global society is headed in the twenty-first century! an epoch in which all human beings may become foreigners in the virtual techno-marketplace. Zusammenfassung Offers a case study of a little-understood group of immigrants with the contemplation of broader social dynamics! including assimilation! acculturation! and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Immigration History Chapter 3 Insourcing Expertise Chapter 4 Diaspora: Long Distance Nationalism Chapter 5 Stereotypes and Negotiated Identity Chapter 6 The Silicon Ceiling Chapter 7 Why So Few? Chapter 8 (Re)Modeling "Minority" Chapter 9 Professional Norms and Organizational Reality Chapter 10 The Debate Over Science Chapter 11 Harbingers of Global Change

Product details

• Authors: Roli Varma, Varma Roli
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2007
• EAN: 9780739122259
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2225-9
• No. of pages: 201
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, India, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Physical anthropology, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples