Female Identities in Flux: Marriage, Education & Biculturalism Among Sikh Women in Vancouver.
Open AccessThe South Asian presence in North America is well over a century old, with the first settlers arriving along the West Coasts of the US and Canada, to work on farms and in lumber mills. Contrary to studies on the South Asians living in the West, recent data suggests that members of the diaspora are indeed adapting to life in their new countries. One of the most closely scrutinized South Asian groups is the Sikh diaspora of Vancouver. Explanations have long been offered about Sikh tradition being born out of an agricultural and collectivist society, and its subsequent incompatibility with an individualist and industrial Western culture. However, such notions of Sikh inassimilability were quickly challenged by interviews with women from seven families showing that, although finding a compromise between tradition and a new Western life is a slow process, Vancouver Sikhs are breaking traditional expectations and slowly but surely adapting to the customs of Canada - a place they perceive not as their host country, but their home country. This adaptation is demonstrated in the following study of three generations of women and their changing attitudes toward arranged marriage and education, and their fluctuating expressions of culture.
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