ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on South Asian Americans to suggest to study the transnational context that is adding a new realm of experience for diasporic groups. The transnational context is an outcome of contemporary globalisation, it exists across and through multiple nation-states. The growing importance of the Web as a social space suggests that any consideration of the transnational context, transnational identities needs to consider both real and virtual social spaces. Racial profiling in this transnational political context is based on ideologies about appropriate and inappropriate people. The current article draws upon the discussions about the ideological constructions of religions for political purpose. The study sought to identify the institutional structures and ideologies within the women's ethno-cultural groups, the mainstream in the US and one or more South Asian countries that supported or impeded their efforts to live their religions. The study examined how these hyphenated identities Asian Indian, Indian American, South Asian American, desi, etc.
