The Village of Richmond Hill: An Analysis of Punjabi Youth in New York City

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Due to political, social and economic push factors in Punjab and various pull factors to the United States, a significant number of Punjabi Sikhs have immigrated to build their homes throughout the nation--particularly in the last three decades or so. Specifically, a neighborhood in Queens, Richmond Hill, New York, has a high concentration of these immigrants and is a community that can be identified as a Punjabi Sikh enclave. As this demographic group continues to grow and foster a particular social environment, the children of Punjabi immigrants have forged a unique identity in which they balance the traditional values of their family’s heritage with the intricacies of urban America. Though Punjabi immigrants moved with the hope that the next generation will have more stability and opportunity than they did in the homeland, Punjabi American teenagers and adolescents inherit their own set of gender, education and class challenges. The plethora of obstacles they face originate because

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