Factors Motivating Sikh Canadian Youth to Become Involved in the Khalistan Movement

Parminder Bhatthal

Corpus ID: 151386113

Factors Motivating Sikh Canadian Youth to Become Involved in the Khalistan Movement

@inproceedings{Bhatthal2015FactorsMS,
  title={Factors Motivating Sikh Canadian Youth to Become Involved in the Khalistan Movement},
  author={Parminder Bhatthal},
  year={2015}
}

Parminder Bhatthal

Published 2015

Sociology

The purpose of the study was to catalogue and analyse factors that motivate Canadian Sikh youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to become involved with the Khalistan movement. Two research questions were posed: (1) How does the Khalistan movement serve to order and manage intra-Sikh relationships, primarily those involving young people, in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario? (2) How does the Khalistan movement manage the Sikh identity vis-à-vis the non-Sikh realities of India and Canada? Using… CONTINUE READING