Schooling in India: Transnational Indian American Youths

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs 

South Asia Center

presents

Adrienne Atterberry

PhD Candidate, Sociology, Syracuse University

Schooling in India: Transnational Indian American Youths

This presentation discusses Indian American high school and college students’ experiences in K-12 schools in India.  It focuses on these schools’ dual roles as sites of difference-making and comfort, as well as sites for the cultivation of beneficial cultural capital.  Last, it will discuss the factors that affect where transnational Indian American youths’ earn their undergraduate degrees.  

Contact Emera Bridger Wilson for more information at elbridge@maxwell.syr.edu.