Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Khandelwal, Madhulika S

Titel

Elders and Youth

Ist Teil von

• Becoming American, Being Indian, 2018, p.139-159

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Before 1990 the center of gravity in New York City’s Indian population was the cohort of first-generation adult immigrants from India. The 1990s, however, witnessed a shift away from this generation’s social dominance. On the one hand, the older members of this generation who were aging in the United States now faced retirement and the third and four ashrams, or stages of life. Moreover, the Indian American elderly population was also being augmented through family reunification as many younger adults brought their parents here from India. On the other hand, the numbers of second-generation children who were growing up in