 
BIO AND RESEARCH My teaching and research interests are in the areas of family, race and ethnicity, gender and globalization with a focus on South Asia as well as the Asian American experience. I am currently engaged in a study of the Bangladesh diaspora, specifically of Bangladesh-origin communities in the U.S. and Britain as well as of labor migration streams to the Persian Gulf states and to Malaysia. I explore the question of how migrants negotiate Muslim religious identity as well as Bangladesh national identity within these diverse contexts. I also examine the consequences of these negotiations for the emerging contests of Islamization in Bangladesh. SELECT PUBLICATIONS Forthcoming. Muslims in Diaspora: Bangladeshis at Home and Abroad. Rutgers University Press. Forthcoming. "The New Islam and Bangladeshi Youth in Britain and the U.S." Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2006. "Globalization and family". Special issue, International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Vol. 32, No. 2: 137-139. 2005.
“South Asian Americans” In Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and
Issues ed. Pyong Gap Min. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications. 2004.
“Returning International Labor Migrants from Bangladesh: The Experience
and Effects of Deportation”. Working Paper #28, Mellon-MIT
Inter-University Program on NGOs and Forced Migration. 2002. Becoming Asian American: Identities of Second Generation Chinese and Korean Americans. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. Race, ethnic options and ethnic binds. Sociological Perspectives 43:77-95. 1998. The contested meanings of "Asian American": Racial dilemmas in the contemporary US. Ethnic and Racial Studies 21:939-958. 1997. The construction of "Asian American": reflections on intermarriage and ethnic identity among second generation Chinese and Korean Americans. Ethnic and Racial Studies 20:523-544. 1995. Culture, class and income control in the lives of women garment workers in Bangladesh. Gender & Society 9:289-309. 1993. Family Tightrope: the Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans. Princeton University Press.department
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