| Abstract: | East African Sikhs are successful settlers, having migrated twice: from India to East Africa, and then to the UK. Since the latter was a move from urban Africa to urban Britain, they were adept at dealing with British institutions, having been part of an established community in colonial British Africa. Unlike other South Asian migrants they had established community and technical skills prior to migration, which has led to the rapid establishment of the community in Britain. This has been aided by their lack of home orientation right from the point of entry. Despite this, the community has remained highly traditionalistic. This has been combined with progressiveness in other spheres. The result has been the perpetuation of Sikh cultural values and greater interest in the maintenance of Sikh ethnicity in the general Sikh community which has been resident in the UK for much longer than the East Africans. |
