Remittances, Assimilation Problems and some other Aspects of Punjabi Immigrants in the UK

A Case Study

Abstrakti

Emigration is not a recen phenomenon in India. During the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, the British used to recruit people with a low qualification backgroud, to work in outher colonies like South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius. After the outbreak of the First World War, emigration dropped significantly. Thereafter, emigration continued on a much smaller scale till the period of the Great Depression when it touched its bottom trough. There was intensive emigration during the brief spell of te Second World War period. The process of emigration almost came to its end with the end of British rule in the late 1940s.