Crosscurrents, crosstalk: Race, ‘Postcoloniality’ and the politics of location

Rethinking ‘Acculturation’ in Relation to Diasporic Cultures and Postcolonial Identities

“…The acculturation process within the U.S. takes on a different developmental trajectory, if, say, the migrant was part of a powerful center or majority in his/her local milieu prior to migration, and after migration, he/she finds himself or herself to be a part of a minority living on the margins. As Frankenberg and Mani [1993] allege, race and gender are crucial signifiers that mark our locations and positions in the center or the margins. Through these signifiers we identify ourselves -our selfhoodand we get identified by others as well.…”

A middle‐class global mobility? The working lives of Indian men in a west London hotel

“…Since one can neither disaggregate the construction of ethnic identities from ascribed gender roles (Anderson and Collins 1992;Elmhirst 2000;Frankenberg and Mani 1996;King 1988;McDowell 1999) nor separate gender roles from an individual's class role, we argue that these migrants' identities as men are tied to their identities as middle class and ethnically Indian. This intersectional identity is crucial in understanding a migrant's mobility trajectory in both the country of origin and destination (McDowell 1999).…”

A Dialogical Examination of Kenyan Immigrants’ Acculturation in the United States

“…Other researchers (Frankenberg & Mani, 1993) noted that race and gender are crucial signifiers that mark our locations and positions in the center or the margins. Bhatia and Ram (2001), suggest that the adherence to universal models of acculturation undervalues the asymmetrical relations of power and the inequities and injustices faced by certain immigrant groups as a result of their nationality, race, and gender.…”