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The interaction between the digital and material world: Transnational practices among high tech Indian immigrant workers.

机译：数字世界与物质世界之间的互动：印度高科技移民工人的跨国实践。

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Asian-Indians represent an important component of the professional and 'high-tech' workers in the U.S. Research on this population has found that majority of these workers are temporary workers working on a contractual jobs. Further, it is not unusual for Indian immigrant workers to get married and have children while in the U.S. As such, they must learn to negotiate the U.S. cultural terrain in both their place of work and home life. This provides the potential that they will become transnational by developing identities and engaging in cultural and social practices from two different nations, India and the U.S. This dissertation investigates the nature and extent of transnational practices adopted by high-tech Indian workers employed by U.S. firms on a temporary work visa. In summary, the purpose of this research is to explore and describe the prevalence and practice of transnationalism among Indian high-tech workers employed by U.S. firms on a temporary work visa and its impact on their lives.;The study uses a mixed-methods research (Ivankova, Creswell and Stick, 2007), where quantitative survey and qualitative data collection are used in single study to understand the stated research problem. Also, as there is no formal list of Indian IT professionals working in the U.S. at contractual jobs, the data collection will be carried out through the non-random chain-referral sampling technique. A detailed survey and personal interview will be used to measure various micro aspects of these workers' lives including consumption patterns, recreational choices, socialization, cultural beliefs and family dynamics.;The study reveals that the temporary stay of these professionals in the U.S. along with their families necessitates day-to-day negotiations between two cultures in terms of their food, clothing, recreation, and daily activities creating a transnational life style for these young professionals. The responses reflect the inner struggle of these professionals between their long-term goals of settling in India with their families and the current material life in a far-away land of opportunity. On one hand, the dualism of living in the U.S. as an Indian is demonstrated in this study by the convergence of the disparate elements of both aspects of their lives, work, incomes and remittances; on other hand, family, social life, religion, consumption patterns, and recreation activities provide the glimpse of a dual life. All of these cultural and social practices can be considered as the combination of transnationalism from 'above' and 'below' as noted by Smith and Guarnizo (1998). Transnational activities at the work place, which is forced by the work culture of the MNCs that employ them, can be considered as 'transnationalism from above'. Simultaneously, being bi-lingual at home, cooking and eating Indian and Western food, socializing with Indian and American friends outside work, and all those cultural activities they perform on a day-to-day basis, indicates 'transnationalism from below'.;Overall, through this study, I have described important aspects of the transnational lives of Indian IT professionals, who try to maintain a fine balance between faster assimilation of American culture which might help them at the work place while simultaneously retaining much of their 'Indian-ness' so that going back to India never poses a problem when their visa expires. In a way, the lives of this particular group of professionals can be viewed as those of temporary-enclave residential workers.
机译：亚洲印第安人是美国专业和``高科技''工人的重要组成部分。对这一人口的研究发现，这些工人中的大多数是从事合同工的临时工。此外，印度移民工人在美国结婚并生子也很普遍。因此，他们必须学会在工作地点和家庭生活中协商美国的文化地形。这提供了他们通过发展身份并参与来自印度和美国这两个不同国家的文化和社会实践而成为跨国公司的潜力。本论文调查了美国公司雇用的高科技印度工人采用的跨国实践的性质和程度。临时工作签证。总而言之，本研究的目的是探讨和描述跨国公司在美国公司以临时工作签证聘用的印度高科技工人中的普遍性和做法及其对他们生活的影响。 （Ivankova，Creswell和Stick，2007年），其中在单个研究中使用定量调查和定性数据收集来理解所述研究问题。另外，由于没有正式的在印度从事合同工作的印度IT专业人员名单，因此数据收集将通过非随机链引用抽样技术进行。一项详细的调查和个人访谈将用于衡量这些工人生活的各个方面，包括消费方式，娱乐选择，社会化，文化信仰和家庭动态。研究表明，这些专业人员在美国的临时居留权以及他们的家人需要在饮食，衣着，娱乐和日常活动方面进行两种文化之间的日常谈判，从而为这些年轻的专业人​​士创造跨国生活方式。这些回应反映了这些专业人士在他们与家人定居印度的长期目标与在遥不可及的机遇之地的当前物质生活之间的内在挣扎。一方面，这项研究通过生活，工作，收入和汇款这两个方面的不同要素的融合证明了美国作为印第安人生活的二元性。另一方面，家庭，社会生活，宗教，消费方式和娱乐活动使人们看到了双重生活。正如史密斯和瓜尼佐（Smith and Guarnizo，1998）所指出的，所有这些文化和社会实践都可以被视为跨国主义的“上”和“下”组合。在工作场所的跨国活动是受雇于跨国公司的跨国公司的工作文化所强迫的，可以被视为“从上而下的跨国主义”。同时，在家中使用双语，烹饪和食用印度和西方食物，在工作中与印度和美国朋友交往以及他们日常进行的所有文化活动，都表明“来自下方的跨国主义”。总体而言，通过这项研究，我描述了印度IT专业人员跨国生活的重要方面，他们试图在更快地吸收美国文化之间保持良好的平衡，这可能有助于他们在工作场所工作，同时又保留了许多“印度裔”，这样一来，只要签证过期，就可以回印度。从某种意义上说，这批专业人士的生活可以看作是临时居住的住宅工人的生活。

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    Sarmistha, Uma.;

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    Kansas State University.;

  • 授予单位 Kansas State University.;
  • 学科 Sociology Theory and Methods.;Sociology Ethnic and Racial Studies.;South Asian Studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 190 p.
  • 总页数 190
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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