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Indian Immigrant Women and Work - The American experience (Paperback)
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Indian Immigrant Women and Work - The American experience (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities
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In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants
coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this
immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants
are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen
by men, or as victims of desperation, forced into the migrant path
due to economic exigencies. This book investigates the work
trajectories and related assimilation experiences of independent
Indian women who have chosen their own migratory pathways in the
United States. The links between individual experiences and the
macro trends of women, work, immigration and feminism are explored.
The authors use historical records, previously unpublished gender
disaggregate immigration data, and interviews with Indian women who
have migrated to the US in every decade since the 1960s to
demonstrate that independent migration among Indian women has a
long and substantial history. Their status as skilled independent
migrants can represent a relatively privileged and empowered
choice. However, their working lives intersect with the gender
constraints of labor markets in both India and the US. Vijaya and
Biswas argue that their experiences of being relatively empowered,
yet pushing against gender constraints in two different
environments, can provide a unique perspective to the immigrant
assimilation narrative and comparative gender dynamics in the
global political economy. Casting light on a hidden, but steady,
stream within the large group of skilled immigrants to the United
States from India, this book will be of interest to researchers in
the fields of political economy, anthropology, and sociology,
including migration, race, class, ethnic and gender studies, as
well as Asian studies.
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