Based on ethnographic research in three communities (Ezhava Hindu,
Mappila Muslim, and Syrian Christian) in Kerala, India, which sent
large numbers of workers to the Middle East for temporary jobs,
Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity explores the factors responsible for the
striking differences in the groups' patterns of migration and
migration-induced social change. Most broadly, Prema Kurien seeks
to understand what ethnicity is and how it affects people's
activities and decisions. She argues that, in each case, a
community-specific nexus of religion, gender, and status shaped
migration, and was, in turn, transformed by it.
The religious background of the three groups determined their
social location within colonial and postcolonial Kerala. This
social location in turn affected their occupational profiles,
family structures, and social networks, as well as their
conceptions of gender and honor, and thus was fundamental in
shaping migration patterns. The rapid enrichment brought about by
international migration resulted in a reinterpretation of religious
identity and practice which was manifested by changes in patterns
of gendered behavior and status in each of the three
communities.
What makes this book unique is its focus on the sociocultural
patterns of short-term international migration and its comparative
ethnographic approach.
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