SOJOURNERS TO SETTLERS

THE INDIAN MIGRANTS IN THE CARIBBEAN AND THE AMERICAS

by

Mahin Gosine & Dhanpaul Narine

Foreword by Moses Seenarine

FOREWORD BY MOSES SEENARINE

PART I: AN INTRODUCTION

1. SOJOURNER TO SETTLER: AN INTRODUCTION by Mahin Gosine

PART II: The English Speaking Caribbean

    2. Official Policy Towards the Education of Children of Indian Immigrants and Settlers in Jamaica, 1879-1950 by Verene A. Shepherd

    3. Indentured Indian Women in Colonial Guyana: Recruitment, Migration, Labor and Caste by Moses Seenarine

    4. THE INDO-TRINIDADIAN FAMILY IN TRANSITION:HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES by Simboonath Singh

PART III: South America and the United States

    5. Children of the Ganges: Migration, Mobility, and Identity in the Diaspora by Dhanpaul Narine

    6. A BRIEF HISTORY OF EAST INDIANS IN SURINAME by Hanan Orna

    7. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INDIAN IMAGE IN SURINAM: Deconstructing Colonial Derogatory Notions and Reconstructing of the Indian Identity by Mohan K. Gautam

PART IV: The United States

    8. EAST INDIAN SURINAMESE WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES ACCULTURATION, GROUP RELATIONS, AND MANAGING STRATEGIES IN PERSPECTIVE by Hanan Orna

    9. IMMIGRANTS, ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOODS, GENERATIVITY AND ASSIMILATION IN RECEIVING SOCIETIES: THE CASE OF CARIBBEAN EAST INDIANS IN THE UNITED STATES by Mahin Gosine

PART V: Canada

     11. EAST INDIANS IN CANADA’S PACIFIC COAST 1900-1914 AN ENCOUNTER IN RACE RELATIONS by Sahadeo Basdeo

Part VI: Conclusion: Indians Full Circle