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Supriya Singh tells the stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women
in Australia who survived economic abuse. She describes the lived
experience of coercive control underlying economic abuse across
cultures. Each story shows how the woman was trapped and lost her
freedom because her husband denied her money, appropriated her
assets and sabotaged her ability to be in paid work. These stories
are about silence, shame and embarrassment that this could happen
despite professional and graduate education. Some of the women were
the main earners in their household. Women spoke of being afraid,
of trying to leave, of losing their sense of self. Many suffered
physical and mental ill-health, not knowing what would trigger the
violence. Some attempted suicide. None of the women fully realised
they were suffering family violence through economic abuse, whilst
it was happening to them. The stories of Anglo-Celtic and Indian
women show economic abuse is not associated with a specific system
of money management and control. It is when the morality of money
is betrayed that control becomes coercive. Money as a medium of
care then becomes a medium of abuse. The women's stories
demonstrate the importance of talking about money and relationships
with future partners, across life stages and with their sons and
daughters. The women saw this as an essential step for preventing
and lessening economic abuse. A vital read for scholars of domestic
abuse and family violence that will also be valuable for
sociologists of money.
This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian
migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the
eyes of migrants and their families. Firstly, there is the marked
increase of Indian migrants, shifting from the earlier
professionals to a dominance of student-migrants. The India-born in
Australia are the fourth largest overseas born group. Secondly,
remittances flow two ways in families between Australia and India.
Thirdly, family communication across borders has become
instantaneous and frequent, changing the experience of migration,
family and money. Fourthly, mobility replaces the earlier
assumption of settlement. Recent migrants hope to settle, but the
large group who have come to study face a long period of precarious
mobility. Lastly, recent migrants re-imagine the joint family in
Australia, buying homes to accommodate siblings and parents. This
is changing the contours of some major cities in Australia.
A whimsical journey through gardens and life by a sociologist. "It
is spring in Melbourne and I am not there. I had a taste for it
before I left for India. The japonica was flowering and there was a
sprinkling of blossom on the plum trees and wild prunus. I wonder
if the lilac has bloomed and finished. It is now nearly the end of
September. Did the poppies bloom? And the wild azalea? Have the
forget-me-nots and the borage covered the garden? Have the roses at
Ivanhoe survived the lack of care? What about the persimmon? Are
the hollyhocks good this year?"
This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian
migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the
eyes of migrants and their families. Firstly, there is the marked
increase of Indian migrants, shifting from the earlier
professionals to a dominance of student-migrants. The India-born in
Australia are the fourth largest overseas born group. Secondly,
remittances flow two ways in families between Australia and India.
Thirdly, family communication across borders has become
instantaneous and frequent, changing the experience of migration,
family and money. Fourthly, mobility replaces the earlier
assumption of settlement. Recent migrants hope to settle, but the
large group who have come to study face a long period of precarious
mobility. Lastly, recent migrants re-imagine the joint family in
Australia, buying homes to accommodate siblings and parents. This
is changing the contours of some major cities in Australia.
Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia provides original,
nuanced insights into social meanings of money and wealth in moral
economies of Asia. Through case studies from South and Southeast
Asia, the collection sheds important light on how the new
mobilities and wealth created by neoliberal globalization transform
people's ways of life, notions of personhood, and their meaning
making of the world. It highlights the moral dilemmas and anxieties
emerging from the profound socio-economic transformations that are
taking place across the region and deepens our understanding of
local cultures as well as the inner contradictions of global
capital in Asian contexts. With rich ethnographic insights and a
diverse range of empirical contexts, chapters in this volume reveal
multifaceted complexities and contradictions in the relationship
between money and moralities. Money, they affirm, is not an
impersonal, objective economic instrument with homogenizing powers
but a culturally constructed and socially mediated currency in
which meanings are constantly contested and re-negotiated across
time and space.
This book tells the story of Inder Kaur, an Indian woman growing up
in the early 20th century. Girls were expected to eat last after
the men and boys, and were often given only a few years of
schooling. It is a story of women that is still repeated. With a
Year 8 education, Inder Kaur, the author's mother, turned the
Partition of India into a personal victory. Having to seek
employment in Delhi, she educated herself one step at a time, as
her marriage disintegrated, to become the founding principal of
three women's colleges.
Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly
the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways
that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh argues
that money as a medium of relationships across cultures is a
central component of globalization. She deftly weaves theory and
individual stories to show how money is emblematic of
interconnected markets, the half of the world that is unbanked, and
gender disparities. She shows how men s and women s banking
patterns are tied to their management of money in the household.
Migrants send money home to show they care for their families and
communities left behind. Yet these remittances are far from
symbolic; instead they represent more than three times the total
amount of official development assistance. This book illustrates
how many of the most exciting changes in harnessing people s
savings; widening credit and insurance; and lowering the cost of
technologies, payments and money transfers are taking place in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Singh demonstrates how strategies
to help the poor and marginalized have gone global in South South
conversations, making us rethink the contours of globalization and
money.
Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly
the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways
that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh argues
that money as a medium of relationships across cultures is a
central component of globalization. She deftly weaves theory and
individual stories to show how money is emblematic of
interconnected markets, the half of the world that is unbanked, and
gender disparities. She shows how men s and women s banking
patterns are tied to their management of money in the household.
Migrants send money home to show they care for their families and
communities left behind. Yet these remittances are far from
symbolic; instead they represent more than three times the total
amount of official development assistance. This book illustrates
how many of the most exciting changes in harnessing people s
savings; widening credit and insurance; and lowering the cost of
technologies, payments and money transfers are taking place in
Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Singh demonstrates how strategies
to help the poor and marginalized have gone global in South South
conversations, making us rethink the contours of globalization and
money.
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