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050 00 $aHD8081.A8$bV37 2006
082 00 $a331.6/254073$222
100 1 $aVarma, Roli,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005090352
245 10 $aHarbingers of global change :$bIndia's techno-immigrants in the United States /$cRoli Varma.
260 $aLanham, MD :$bLexington Books,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $aviii, 201 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-198 and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $g2.$tImmigration history -- $g3.$tInsourcing expertise -- $g4.$tDiaspora : long distance nationalism -- $g5.$tStereotypes and negotiated identity -- $g6.$tThe silicon ceiling -- $g7.$tWhy so few? -- $g8.$t(Re)modeling "minority" -- $g9.$tProfessional norms and organizational reality -- $g10.$tThe debate over science -- $g11.$tHarbingers of global change.
520 1 $a"Harbingers of Global Change enriches a revealing case study of a little-understood group of immigrants with the contemplation of broader social dynamics, including assimilation, acculturation, and the persistence of racial and ethnic prejudice. Author Roli Varma reveals how familiar obstacles to social equity - such as the silicon ceiling - are complicated by the unique constellation of social pressures confronting a group of scientists and engineers whose talent is highly valued, and yet whose presence as culturally unfamiliar human beings is received with unease and ambivalence. The analysis combines U.S. political and social history as it bears on immigration policy with a sensitive and balanced treatment of how India's techno-immigrants negotiate career, family, and loyalty to social-cultural traditions."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aForeign workers, East Indian$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEast Indians$xEmployment$zUnited States.
650 0 $aProfessional employees$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005046
650 0 $aScientists, Foreign$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEngineers, Foreign$zUnited States.
650 0 $aTechnology transfer$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112691
650 0 $aTransnationalism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00009276
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005036277.html
852 00 $boff,bus$hHD8081.A8$iV37 2006