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The Sun Never Sets

South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power
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The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies. By focusing upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations, the contributors present a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the changes in global power that have influenced the paths and experiences of migrants, from expatriate Indian maritime workers at the turn of the century, to Indian nurses during the Cold War, to post-9/11 detainees and deportees caught in the crossfire of the "War on Terror," these essays reveal how the South Asian diaspora has been shaped by the contours of U.S. imperialism. Driven by a shared sense of responsibility among the contributing scholars to alter the profile of South Asian migrants in the American public imagination, they address the key issues that impact these migrants in the U.S., on the subcontinent, and in circuits of the transnational economy. Taken together, these essays provide tools with which to understand the contemporary political and economic conjuncture and the place of South Asian migrants within it.
Acknowledgments Introduction Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu VimalasseryPart I. Overlapping Empires 1 Intimate Dependency, Race, and Trans-Imperial Migration Nayan Shah 2 Repressing the "Hindu Menace"Seema Sohi 3 Desertion and SeditionVivek Bald 4 "The Hidden Hand"Sujani ReddyPart II. From Imperialism to Free-Market Fundamentalism 5 Putting "the Family" to WorkMiabi Chatterji 6 Looking Home Linta Varghese 7 India's Global and Internal Labor Migration and ResistanceImmanuel Ness 8 Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola Amanda Ciafone 9 When an Interpreter Could Not Be FoundNaeem MohaiemenPart III. Geographies of Migration, Settlement, and Self 10 Intertwined Violence: Implications of State Responses to Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities Soniya Munshi 11 Who's Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Framings of the RegionGayatri Gopinath 12 Awaiting the Twelfth Imam in the United StatesRaza Mir and Farah Hasan 13 Tracing the Muslim BodyJunaid Rana 14 Antecedents of Imperial IncarcerationManu VimalasseryAfterword Vijay PrashadIndexAbout the Contributors
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