Transnational relationships between Indian migrant women household
workers in Hong Kong and their family members in India is the focus
of the book. The impact of migration on these solo women migrants,
the strengths that they draw from work, income and friendship ties
developed with fellow migrants at destination, and the cumulative
impact these have on transnational relationships with families that
they left behind, were unknown. Firstly, it emerged that Indian
migrant women household workers in Hong Kong drew strength from
their membership of small groups by developing reciprocal 'lunch
box rights'. Secondly, the concept of 'bangled husband' highlighted
the reversal of gender roles between breadwinning migrant wives and
their non-migrant husbands. Thirdly, the pain of separation was
central to the transnational relationships between mothers and the
children they left behind. Finally, it was only after migrant women
household workers struck a balance in the disbursal of their income
between the demands from family members as well as their own needs
for education, recreation and accumulation that it worked in their
favour to gain influence in their natal or marital family.
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