CONTENTS Publisher's Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 Susan Koshy PART 1: SOCIAL NETWORKS, CULTURAL PRACTICES, AND THE PROCESSES OF SETTLEMENT 1 Slaves, Servants, and Sugar Barons in Mauritius: Diversity and Transformation in a Historical South Asian Diaspora 45 Marina Carter 2 Tazia Fiji: The Place of Potentiality 71 Sudesh Mishra PART 2: RELIGION, DISPLACEMENT, AND BELONGING 3 Islamophobia and Muslim Recognition in Britain 97 Steven Vertovec 4 South Asian Assertiveness in Britain 124 Tariq Modood 5 Nuancing the 'Migrant Experience': Perspectives from Kerala, South India 146 Caroline Osella and Filippo Osella PART 3: RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE POLITICS OF LOCATION 6 Dougla Logics: East Indians, Miscegenation, and the National Imaginary 181 Viranjini Munasinghe 7 Roomful of Asha: Gendered Productions of 215 Ethnicity in Britain's 'Asian Underground' 215 Falu Bakrania 8 Coming Out of the Almirah: South Asian Americans Struggle with Coming Out in a Gay America that Looks Nothing Like Them 244 Sandip Roy PART 4: LABOUR REGIMES AND TRANS-ETHNIC HISTORIES OF DIASPORA 9 The Skins of Pearls: Remembering and Forgetting in Diaspora Narratives 271 Suvendrini Kanagasabai Perera 10 Braceros and Techno-Braceros: Guest Workers in the United States, and the Commodification of Low-Wage and High-Wage Labour 291 Sharmila Rudrappa PART 5: LONG-DISTANCE PATRIOTISM: HOST COUNTRIES, HOMELANDS, AND DIASPORAS 11 The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora : Warmongers or Peace-builders? 325 Camilla Orjuela and Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah 12 Bollywood, USA: Diasporas, Nations, and the State of Cinema 345 Jigna Desai Notes on Contributors 368 Index 370