A little of Nepal: Nepali diaspora in the US in an age of globalization

Authors

  • Lopita Nath Asst. Professor at the Department of History in the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2817

Keywords:

globalization, Nepali diaspora, US

Abstract

This article, while examining the Nepalis' efforts to negotiate between two worlds (hostland and homeland) through the striking realities of belonging to both, also examines issues of identity, assimilation, adjustment and notions of home expressed in their struggles to create a new sense of themselves in the process of self-construction which immigrants commonly encounter in the USA. The study is exploratory in nature and is expected to fill an important gap in scholarship of the South Asian as well as the Nepali diaspora in the United States.

DOI: 10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2817  

Bodhi Vol.3(1) 2009 p.106-119

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Author Biography

Lopita Nath, Asst. Professor at the Department of History in the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas

Lopita Nath is Asst. Professor at the Department of History in
the University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas,
USA. Formerly, she taught at Cotton College, Guwahati, India.
Her teaching and research interests focus on Asian and World
History, Migration Studies and Human Rights in Asia as well as
the History and Politics of South Asia. She is the author of the
book The Nepalis in Assam: Ethnicity and Cross Border
Movements in the North East, and has a number of research
works on Nepalis of Assam. Email: nath@uiwtx.edu.

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Nath, L. (2010). A little of Nepal: Nepali diaspora in the US in an age of globalization. Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 3(1), 106–119. https://doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v3i1.2817

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009)

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Articles

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