Gender, Migration and Citizenship Project

South Asian Women in Canada

Cultural Identity

 

 

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Annamma, Joy. 1982. Accommodation and cultural persistence:  The Case of the Sikhs and the Portuguese in the Okanogan Valley of British Columbia. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia.

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Buchignani, Norman. 1980. Accommodation, adaptation, and policy: Dimensions of the South Asian experience in Canada. In Visible minorities and multiculturalism: Asians in Canada, edited by V. K. Ujimoto and G. Hirabayashi. Toronto: Butterworth.

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———. 1983. Determinants of Fijian Indian social organizations in Canada. In Overseas Indians: A study in adaptation, edited by G. Kurian and P. R. Srivastava. New Delhi: Vikas.

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Campbell, Michael Graeme. 1977. The Sikhs of Vancouver: A case study in minority-host relations. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia.

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Dhruvarajan, V. 1974.  Differential adjustment between two Indian immigrant communities in Toronto. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Colorado.

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———. 1989.  Hindu women and the power of ideology.  Granby, Mass.: Bergin and Garvey.

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———. 1996. Hindu Indo-Canadian families. In Voices: Essays on Canadian families, edited by M. Lynn. Scarborough, Ontario: Nelson.

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Gill, Kuldip.1982. A Canadian Sikh wedding as a cultural performance. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia.

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Indra, D. M. 1977. The portrayal of ethnicity in the Vancouver press, 1906–1976. Ph.D Dissertation, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

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———. 1981. The invisible mosaic: Women, ethnicity and the Vancouver press. Canadian Ethnic Studies 13:63–74

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James, S. 1998. South Asian women: Creating theatre of resilience and resistance. Canadian Theatre Review 94:45–50.

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Kurian, G. 1983. Socialization of South Asian immigrant youth. In South Asian Canadians: Current issues in the politics of culture, edited by G. Ghosh and R. Kanungo. New Dehli: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Lal, Brij. 1976. East Indians in British Columbia, 1904–1914:  A historical study of growth and integration. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia.

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Lalonde, R. N., Taylor, D. M., and Moghaddam, F. M. 1992. The process of social identification for visible immigrant women in a multicultural context. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 23(1): 25–39.

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Lee, J. 1997. Immigration settlement and multiculturalism programs for immigrant, refugee and visible minority women: A study of outcomes, best practices and issues. Ottawa: Ministry for Multiculturalism and Immigration.

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Moghaddam, Fathali M. 1989. Integration strategies and attitudes toward the built environment: A study of Haitian and Indian immigrant women in Montreal. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 21(2): 160–173.

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———. 1987. Women of South Asian origins: Status of research, problems, future issues. In The South Asian diaspora in Canada: Six essays, edited by M. Israel. Toronto: The Multicultural History Society of Ontario.

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Naidoo, Josephine. 1986. Value conflicts for South Asian women in multicultural Canada. In Ethnic minorities and immigrants in a cross-cultural perspective, edited by L.H. Ekstrand. The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.

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———. 1992. Between east and west: Reflections on Asian Indian women in Canada. In South Asian Canadians: Current issues in the politics of culture, edited by R. Gosh and R. Kanungo. India: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Ralston, Helen. 1992. Religion in the life of South Asian immigrant women in Atlantic Canada. Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion 4 (2): 245–60.

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———. 1997. ‘Arranged,’ 'semi arranged' and 'love' marriages among South Asian immigrant women in the diaspora and their non-migrant sisters in India and Fiji: A comparative study. International Journal of Sociology of the Family 27(2): 43–68.

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Romo, Enrique. 1986. The multiculturalism sector and the Sikh-Canadian community: Issues and alternatives. No Publisher

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Scanlon, T. Joseph. 1975. The Sikhs of Vancouver: A case study of the role of the media in ethnic relations. Ottawa: Carleton University.

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Segal, U. 1991. Cultural variabilities in Asian Indian families. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, Article No. 11.

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Singh, M. 1996. South Asian Canadian adolescent females' perceptions of language, culture and identity. Masters Abstracts International 35(1): 26.

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Sodhi, Pavna. 2002. Punjabi women living in Eastern Canada: A study exploring how parental attitudes influence intergenerational cultural preservation and ethnic identity formation. Thesis Ed.D, University of Toronto.

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Srinivasan, Vasanthi. 1995. Culture, religion and transition: The experience of Hindu women in Canada. Dissertation Abstracts International 58(4): 1320.

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Srivastava, P.R. 1975. Family organization and change among the overseas Indians with special reference to Indian immigrant families of British Columbia, Canada. In Family in India:  A regional view, edited by G. Kurian. The Hague: Mouton.

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Wood, M. R. 1980. Hinduism in Vancouver: Adjustments in the home, the temple and the community. In Visible minorities and multiculturalism: Asians in Canada, edited by K. V. Ujimoto and G. Hirabayashi. Toronto: Butterworths.

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