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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: The Ethnography of Immigration: In Conversation with Dr. Tahseen Shams
Description: How are immigrantsâ lives shaped by cultural and political dynamics in their homeland, hostland, and âelsewhereâ countries whose geopolitical dynamics affect their experiences (such as South Asian Muslims who are affected by post-9/11 and more recent backlash against Middle Eastern nations)? In todayâs podcast, we talk with Tahseen Shams, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto-St.George and author of Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World. Tahseen talks about how her own background as a Bangladeshi immigrant to Mississippi inspired her to become an ethnographer, and how her positionality affected h...