Changes over time: Punjabis, Punjabi Mexicans, and Sikhs in North America

Abstract

ABSTRACT Although post-1965 Punjabi Sikh immigrants are inclined to disavow the Punjabi Mexican community formed by the earlier Punjabi diaspora, and claim the earlier diaspora as a Sikh diaspora, arguably the earlier Punjabi diaspora was a cosmopolitan one and the later diaspora a Sikh transnational and religious one. But the Punjabi Mexican community, now mainstream American, is being acclaimed well beyond the borders of its descendants.