Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Khandelwal, Madhulika S

Titel

Building Careers, Encountering Class

Ist Teil von

• Becoming American, Being Indian, 2018, p.91-116

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Well-paying jobs were the basic motivation for the post-1965 Indian immigration. At first largely from middle-class, well-educated backgrounds, Indians migrated to the United States to further improve their standard of living. The contrasting economic conditions in India and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s fed those expectations, and the professional careers and business achievements of Indian immigrants during these decades underlay the “successful immigrant” image attached to the entire group (Helweg and Helweg 1990). This “model minority” myth became entrenched as well among these immigrants themselves, affecting their self-perceptions and their definition of community needs and issues (Abraham