New Opportunities, the Brain Drain, and the Guptas

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Jennifer B. Saunders
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
The Brain

This chapter provides information about the significant contexts of the Hindu American community’s narrative performances. Reviewing reasons behind why people immigrate, it begins with general theories of immigration and then concentrates on the specific reasons why Indians left India during the period after 1947. The chapter then shifts its focus to the context in the United States as a receiving site for immigrants from India with particular attention to race and religion, two dominant themes in American immigration that have contributed to the Guptas’ experiences and the dynamics of their community-making activities. This leads to a discussion of the significance of religion for migrants in the United States before introducing the more specific religious context of the Guptas’ community. Finally, the chapter expands its lens to their transnational extended family with family trees, a description of their social community, and a specific history of key players in the family.

Some Economic Aspects of the Brain Drain

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Harry G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
Brain Drain ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Aspects ◽  
National State ◽  
The One ◽  
Professional People ◽  
The Brain

The concept of “brain drain” is in its origins a nationalistic concept, by which is meant a concept that visualizes economic and cultural welfare in terms of the welfare of the residents of a national state or region, viewed as a totality, and excludes from consideration both the welfare of people born in that region who choose to leave it, and the welfare of the outside world in general. Moreover, though the available statistics are far from adequate on this point, there is generally assumed to be a net flow of trained professional people from the former colonial territories to the ex-imperial European nations, and from Europe and elsewhere to North America and particularly the United States. The concept thus lends itself easily to the expression of anti-colonial sentiments on the one hand, and anti-American sentiments on the other. The expression of such sentiments can be dignified by the presentation of brain drain as a serious economic and cultural problem, by relying on nationalistic sentiments and assumptions and ignoring the principles of economics—especially the principle that in every transaction there is both a demand and a supply—or by elevating certain theoretical economic possibilities into presumed hard facts.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Ethnic Density ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

The introduction lays out what we know about the social context of schizophrenia from the epidemiological literature: that risk of schizophrenia is particularly high for immigrants from predominantly dark-skinned countries to Europe; that risk increases with lower socioeconomic status at birth and even at parent’s birth; that risk increases with urban dwelling and seems to increase the longer time is spent in cities; that risk increases as ethnic density in the neighborhood declines. The chapter presents a history of the way schizophrenia has been understood in the United States, and the diagnostic complexities of serious psychotic disorder. It then discusses what ethnographers have observed so far about the social conditions which may shape the experience of psychosis: the local cultural interpretation of mental illness; the role and presence of the family; the structure of work; and the basic social environment. This becomes the ground for our case studies.

American Judaism and Race

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jodi Eichler-Levine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
American Jews ◽  
American Judaism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion

Thinking about American Jews, race, and religion entails confronting the instability of those terms. This chapter examines the history of Jews and race in the United States through three lenses. First, it looks at the history of how Eastern European Jews have been “raced” in America, and in particular how they became “white.” Second, it considers Jewish interactions with other groups, such as blacks, Native Americans, and Asians, and how Jewish identity has been co-constituted with and against that of other groups. Third, the chapter looks at internal Jewish diversity and the challenges presented by Euro-centric models of Jewishness. The chapter concludes by considering Jews, race, and religion in the age of Ferguson.

Tularemia Pneumonia in Urban Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-662
Author(s):  
Crystie C. Halsted ◽  
Hareen P. Kulasinghe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Oral Administration ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Hospital ◽  
Baltimore City ◽  
Hospital Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Pulmonary Manifestations ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Tularemia pneumonia occurred simultaneously in five children in urban Baltimore. The features of this outbreak are reported to document the mild nature of the pneumonic illness and thus to emphasize the variability of the pulmonary manifestations of Francisella tulareusis infection. These cases also serve as a reminder to physicians that tulareniia, an infrequently encountered illness, is endemic in the United States. CASE REPORT Three previously healthy brothers, T.W., J.W., and R.W., 8, 10, and 14 years of age, were seen at the Baltimore City Hospital Outpatient Clinic with a history of fever of ten days' duration. The temperatures, compulsively documented by their mother, ranged from 37.8 to 40.0 C (100 to 104 F) daily and did not abate with antipyretics or the oral administration of penicillin prescribed by the family physician at the onset of fever.

Introduction to the Colorado River Negotiations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Verdini Trejo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Colorado River ◽  
The United States ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Key Players ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

Introduces the Colorado River case, presenting an overview of the chapters to follow, as well as providing context for analysis of the binational negotiations with a summary of the 2012 landmark Minute 319 agreement between the United States and Mexico. Outlines the key players, the decades-long history of protracted disputes over the waters of the river basin and the environmental resources of the Colorado River Delta, the increasing challenges in the face of extraordinary drought and climate change, and the mutual gains approach that underpinned the negotiations.

How Well Do Housing Vouchers Work for Black Families Experiencing Homelessness? Evidence from the Family Options Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 693 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Claudia D. Solari ◽  
Douglas Walton ◽  
Jill Khadduri
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Homeless Families ◽  
Housing Choice ◽  
Housing Vouchers ◽  
White Families ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

We investigate whether racial disparities exist among homeless families with priority access to the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. The families we studied moved from emergency shelter into subsidized housing and sometimes left the HCV program, and our results suggest that the HCV program works as well for Black families as it does for White families. The rates at which families used the vouchers to lease a housing unit are similarly high for each group. The rate at which families exit from the HCV program does not differ between White and Black families, but the factors that predict exit do differ by race. For all families, access to a voucher reduces returns to homelessness, doubling up, and moving. These results confirm that in the United States—a country with a history of racial disparities in housing—the HCV program can help alleviate the effects of severe poverty and provide housing opportunities that advantage both White and Black families.

Heading Out

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Parks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Appalachian Trail ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? This book would claim: all of the above. Camping is one of the United States' most popular pastimes. Campers have been enjoying themselves for well over a century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. This book takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States. The book shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. It humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.

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