The sun never sets : South Asian migrants in an age of U.S. power / edited by Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery ; afterword by Vijay Prashad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I OVERLAPPING EMPIRES
1.Intimate Dependency, Race, and Trans-Imperial Migration /​ Nayan Shah
2.Repressing the "Hindu Menace": Race, Anarchy, and Indian Anticolonialism /​ Seema Sohi
3.Desertion and Sedition: Indian Seamen, Onshore Labor, and Expatriate Radicalism in New York and Detroit, 1914
1930 /​ Vivek Bald
4."The Hidden Hand": Remapping Indian Nurse Immigration to the United States /​ Sujani Reddy
pt. II FROM IMPERIALISM TO FREE-MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM: CHANGING FORMS OF MIGRATION AND WORK
5.Putting "the Family" to Work: Managerial Discourses of Control in the Immigrant Service Sector /​ Miabi Chatterji
6.Looking Home: Gender, Work, and the Domestic in Theorizations of the South Asian Diaspora /​ Linta Varghese
7.India's Global and Internal Labor Migration and Resistance: A Case Study of Hyderabad /​ Immanuel Ness
8.Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Transnational Systems of Capital and Activism /​ Amanda Ciafone
Contents note continued: 9.When an Interpreter Could Not Be Found /​ Naeem Mohaiemen
pt. III GEOGRAPHIES OF MIGRATION, SETTLEMENT, AND SELF
10.Intertwined Violence: Implications of State Responses to Domestic Violence in South Asian Immigrant Communities /​ Soniya Munshi
11.Who's Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Framings of the Region /​ Gayatri Gopinath
12.Awaiting the Twelfth Imam in the United States: South Asian Shia Immigrants and the Fragmented American Dream /​ Farah Hasan
13.Tracing the Muslim Body: Race, U.S. Deportation, and Pakistani Return Migration /​ Junaid Rana
14.Antecedents of Imperial Incarceration: Fort Marion to Guantanamo /​ Manu Vimalassery.

The Sun Never Sets collects the work of a generation of scholars who are enacting a shift in the orientation of the field of South Asian American studies which has, until recently, largely centered on literary and cultural analyses of an affluent immigrant population. The contributors focus instead on the histories and political economy of South Asian migration to the U.S.-and upon the lives, work, and activism of specific, often unacknowledged, migrant populations-presenting a more comprehensive vision of the South Asian presence in the United States. Tracking the shifts in global power tha.