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Subject: Re: A new book on the Gujarati diaspora


Author:
Sanjay Rana (PH.D WORK)
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Date Posted: Sun, September 15 2013, 11:24:50-4
In reply to: Ramnik Shah 's message, "A new book on the Gujarati diaspora" on Wed, April 20 2011, 11:52:12-4

>I have just reviewed "Modern Migrations: Gujarati
>Indian Networks in New York & London" by Maritsa V
>Poros - ISBN 978-0-8047-7223-5 (pbk)(Standford
>University Press, 2011)- in the Journal of Immigration
>Asylum and Nationality Law (IANL, Vol 25, No. 1, 2011)
>which members may find worth reading. Maritsa Poros is
>Assistant Professor of Sociology at the City College
>of New York.
>
>As the title of the book indicates, her study focuses
>on the phenomenon of the highly urbanised and
>successful Gujarati migrant networks of the West`s two
>largest metropolitan conurbations. She does however,
>as I point out in my review, dismiss "as a common
>cultural myth the claim by Gujaratis that business is
>in their blood", notwithstanding a great deal of the
>contrary "evidence buried in her own extensive
>bibliographical sources"! Anyway, judge for
>yourselves.

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