TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirvi, Laura
AB  - "Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress, the life-cycle, as well as religious and cultural sites, constitute important moments in which Sikhs engage in the often transnational art of negotiating identities. Laura Hirvi’s rich ethnographic account brings to the fore how the construction of identities is a creative process that is conditioned and infiltrated by questions of power. Identities in Practice will appeal to scholars who are interested in the study of cultures, identities, migration, religion, and transnationalism."
DO  - 10.21435/sfe.15
ID  - OAPEN ID: 617164
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030822628
KW  - immigrants
KW  - practice
KW  - finland
KW  - sikh
KW  - california
KW  - identity
KW  - Gurdwara
KW  - Helsinki
KW  - India
KW  - Sikhism
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - Turban
KW  - Yuba City
KW  - California
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4f9a7309-9bd4-418d-9ed9-0194c6fe5dd5/617164.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32121
PB  - Finnish Literature Society / SKS
PP  - Helsinki
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9789522227478;9789522225276
TI  - Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in Californianull
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