Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity
Main description:
Focusing on Asian women's experience of immigration, the
contributions in this book collectively highlight the gendered
dimension of migration, the different experiences of men to women
and the subsequent consequences for women within the constraints of
the root culture and the strategies deployed to make life more
bearable in the host country.
The central theme discussed is the fact that immigrant women are
unable to completely break away from the chains of traditional
patriarchal norms, imposed by either their host country or root
culture.
Immigrant women's identity is, therefore, far more fluid and
regulated by both social and state insitutions they
encounter.
Table of contents:
Introduction - Meenakshi Thapan
Making Incomplete
Identity, Woman and the State
From India to an Indian Diaspora to a Mauritian Diaspora - Kathinka
Sinha-Kerkhoff
Back-linking as a Means for Women to Feel Good Locally
Women in Between - Nilufar Ahmed
The Case of Bangladeshi Women Living in London
Being American, Learning to be Indian - Aparna Rayaprol
Gender and Generation in the Context of Transnational
Migration
Singular Predicaments - Santi Rozario
Unmarried Female Migrants and the Changing Bangladeshi Family
Breaking the Silence - Parin Dossa
Identity Politics and Social Suffering
Women, Home and Belonging in UK Immigration Policy - Irene
Gedalof
Gender, Race and Racism - Christine Delphy
The Ban of the Islamic Headscarf in France
Cultured Girls - Sunera Thobani
Race, Multiculturalism and the Canadian State
Betwixt the State and Everyday Life - Maitrayee Chaudhuri
Identity Formation Among Bengali Migrants in a Delhi Slum
"Transnational migration and its impact on female identity couldn't be more timely. The strengths of the book can be found in the narratives and the variety of identity issues."
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Introduction - Meenakshi Thapan Making Incomplete Identity, Woman and the State From India to an Indian Diaspora to a Mauritian Diaspora - Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff Back-linking as a Means for Women to Feel Good Locally Women in Between - Nilufar Ahmed The Case of Bangladeshi Women Living in London Being American, Learning to be Indian - Aparna Rayaprol Gender and Generation in the Context of Transnational Migration Singular Predicaments - Santi Rozario Unmarried Female Migrants and the Changing Bangladeshi Family Breaking the Silence - Parin Dossa Identity Politics and Social Suffering Women, Home and Belonging in UK Immigration Policy - Irene Gedalof Gender, Race and Racism - Christine Delphy The Ban of the Islamic Headscarf in France Cultured Girls - Sunera Thobani Race, Multiculturalism and the Canadian State Betwixt the State and Everyday Life - Maitrayee Chaudhuri Identity Formation Among Bengali Migrants in a Delhi Slum
