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This chapter explores three dimensions of migrant experience in the host country. First, we focus on the individual level issues and challenges related identity, resilience, motivation to integrate/expectations. Much of the individual level struggles are closely related to human capital translation process (i.e., credential recognition or lack there of) and decisions regarding continuation vs. change of previously established career pathways. Next, we focus on the social aspect of the migrant experience. Social capital and specifically lack of local social capital as one of the more difficult aspects of the migrant experience. We discuss various ways in which migrants can go about seeking and connecting to locals and establishing relationships in the new country (e.g., mentoring, ethnic communities). Finally, the third critical aspect of the migrant experience is related to organizational integration. Organizational experiences vary based on the local culture and also the size and the type of organization. Commonly discussed issues are related to organizational entry and later integration and collaboration with local employees.
Dhan Gopal Mukerji and Dalip Singh Saund, Indians who came to the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, write their selves through a sustained relationship to homeland and shift the central problematic of American autobiography. Caste and Outcaste and Congressman from India serve to remind that diaspora is not just a term of identity, like ethnic or immigrant, it is also a spatial term that invites speculation about different kinds of psychic and geographic territory. Mukerji relates to India through spirituality, while Saund does so through politics. Mukerji's and Saund's texts elaborate an America and an India very much in formation, and both their relatively early migration as well as their dwelling in California helps one think through the representational politics of relation, not to large ethnic communities of Indians but to a racial landscape that includes other minoritized peoples.
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