Diaspora writing occupies an important place in Post-modern literature. Indian immigrant writers contributed hugely and shaped South Asian into a much recognised branch of diaspora Bharati Mukherjee Jhumpa Lahiri have skillfully narrated the issues immigrants Canada America. Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter (1971), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989) Lahiri’s Lowland (2013) are examined for diasporic p...

Prior research has established that the " social sharing " of emotions is an integral part of an emotional experience. Whereas earlier studies have focused on universal features of sharing (e.g., rate, frequency, delay), this study investigates social and relational aspects of sharing hypothesized to be more open to cultural variation. A total of 555 adolescents from the Indian, immigrant India...

This paper provides evidence concerning political participation (turnout, awareness, attendance at meetings, campaign involvement, voting) and its relation to local governance (targeting of public services) in a developing country, based on a rural household survey in West Bengal, India. We find that reported participation rates varied remarkably little with socio-economic status, with the exce...

BACKGROUND We set out to describe the risk of hospitalization from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes among persons born in India, all foreign-born persons, and U.S.-born persons residing in New York City. METHODS We examined billing records of 1,083,817 persons hospitalized in New York City during the year 2000. The zip code of each patient's residence was linked to corresponding data from ...

BACKGROUND In a previous retrospective study of tuberculosis in south London among Asian immigrants from the Indian subcontinent Hindu Asians were found to have a significantly increased risk for tuberculosis compared with Muslims. This finding has been further investigated by examining the role of socioeconomic and lifestyle variables, including diet, as risk factors for tuberculosis in Asian ...

it seems that shabbi didn`t travel to other countries, but he emigrated spiritually; because he influenced from the immigrant poets very much. his influence was from jobran, mikhayil, eilia abu mazi and others from immigrant poets. and it was in these bases : literary school, self moods ; like: surprise, anxiety, nature description, poem story and also in deep ideas like: thinking in sights of ...

Referencing two 19th-century identity photographs of Indian migrants named Beekano and Doorgana, taken from the research historian Marina Carter at Mauritian Archives, Flynn has produced artworks using obsolete method screen-printing to transform portraits that originally were aid an oppressive colonial regime focused on policing immobilizing its immigrant labour. He also involved same individu...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: J 31 O18 R23 Keywords: Unskilled migrants Remittance Skilled–unskilled wage inequality Labor host region The present paper establishes a two-sector general equilibrium model and conduct the comparative static approach to investigate the impact exerted by an increase in the remittance rate of the unskilled migrants on the skilled–unskilled wage inequalit...