Asian Women Identity And Migration

Author : Nish Belford,Reshmi Lahiri-Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000326604

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Asian Women, Identity and Migration by Nish Belford,Reshmi Lahiri-Roy Pdf

This book explores the influence which education and migration experiences have on women of Indian origin in Australia and the United Kingdom when (re)negotiating their identities. The intersections of migration and transnationalism are critically examined through multiple theoretical lenses across three thematic domains encompassing socio-historical discourses, postcolonial theory, theories on intersectionality and interceptionality, emotional reflexivity and affects. In doing so, the book highlights the ambiguities around gendered access and equity to education, migration experiences, the acculturation process, dilemmas surrounding transnationality and negotiation of identities, belonging and struggles inherent in simultaneously maintaining ties with home and new social fields. Chapters highlight the practical, methodological, and substantive aspects of affective dimensions and voice with a critical understanding of different tensions, challenges, complexities and conflicts underlining the stories. The book raises the question of voice and agency in advocating emotion-based writing in recalibrating conditions representing gendered subjective multivocality of women in breaking silences. Presenting non-Western perspectives through fragmented and often marginalised accounts within transnational and global spaces, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, Migration, Transnational and Diaspora studies, Sociology of Education, Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Cultural Geographies.

Author : Nicola Piper,Mina Roces
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585463810

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Wife or Worker? by Nicola Piper,Mina Roces Pdf

This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.

Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136587146

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Transnational Migration, Media and Identity of Asian Women by Youna Kim Pdf

This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the experience of the media? Are they becoming cosmopolitan subjects? Exploring the key questions within their particular socio-economic and cultural contexts, this book analyzes the contradictions of cosmopolitan identity formation and challenges the general assumptions of cosmopolitanism. It considers the highly visible, fastest growing, yet little studied phenomenon of women’s transnational migration and the role of the media in everyday life, offering detailed empirical data on the nature of the women’s diaspora. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book provides an empirically grounded and theoretically insightful investigation into this evolving phenomenon.

Author : Meenakshi Thapan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 8178295601

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Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity by Meenakshi Thapan Pdf

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.

Author : Nirmal Puwar,Parvati Raghuram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183702

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South Asian Women in the Diaspora by Nirmal Puwar,Parvati Raghuram Pdf

South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

Author : Nafhesa Ali
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031504624

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Older South Asian Migrant Women’s Experiences of Ageing in the UK by Nafhesa Ali Pdf

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668436288

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Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women by Pourya Asl, Moussa Pdf

In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.

Author : Shirlena Huang,Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Noor Abdul Rahman
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114209401

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Asian Women as Transnational Domestic Workers by Shirlena Huang,Brenda S. A. Yeoh,Noor Abdul Rahman Pdf

"This volume is an attempt to enhance not only academic research on transnational domestic workers, but also inform governments, nongovernmental organisations, and civil society groups in their efforts to derive appropriate policies and make recommendations to address the problem related to Asian transnational domestic workers."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Yuk Wah Chan,Heidi Fung,Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443881937

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The Age of Asian Migration by Yuk Wah Chan,Heidi Fung,Grażyna Szymańska-Matusiewicz Pdf

This book represents a follow-up to 2014’s The Age of Asian Migration: Continuity, Diversity, and Susceptibility Volume 1. Both volumes are the result of the conference on Asian Migration and Diasporas organised by the Southeast Asia Research Centre and held at the City University of Hong Kong in 2013. Despite numerous studies on Asian migration issues having been conducted over the past few decades, no comprehensive account of Asian migrations, especially those taking place since the end of the Second World War exists. While the first volume provided a discussion of a wide spectrum of topics concerning Asian migration – from historical perspectives to updated trends – this volume is organised around three major themes, namely “Women and Migration”, “Refugee and Borderland Migration”, and “Remittances and Migration Economics”. The book contains new migration stories that provide fresh insights into human movements, and enhances academic discussions of migration through case studies from Asia.

Author : Amrit Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988832012

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Finding a Voice by Amrit Wilson Pdf

First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new edition includes a preface by Meena Kandasamy, some historic photographs, and a remarkable new chapter by young South Asian women.

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400728318

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Feminism and Migration by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Pdf

Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in migration, contesting identities and agency, resistance and social justice, and religion for change, well-known and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of how social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape new modalities and perspectives among women upon migration. It highlights the centrality of the various meanings and interpretations of feminism(s) in the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and the United States. The well-researched chapters explore the ways in which feminism and migration across cultures relate to women’s experiences in host societies --- as women, wives, mothers, exiles, nuns, and workers---and the avenues of interactions for change. Cross-cultural engagements point to the convergence and even disjunctures between (im)migrant and non-immigrant women that remain unrecognized in contemporary mainstream discourses on migration and feminism.

Author : Helen Ralston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020160532

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The Lived Experience of South Asian Immigrant Women in Atlantic Canada by Helen Ralston Pdf

This study has made use of historical records, census data, and in-depth interviews with 120 first-generation women to generate a detailed portrayal of the demographics of South Asian women immigrants and their lived experiences. The text begins with a discussion of the major theoretical issues in studying South Asian women in Canada and the impact of Canadian immigration policy on this group of women. It goes on to provide a profile of these women and their socio-demographic context of their everyday lives in three domains: work in the home; work outside the home; and participation in community organizations, notably religious and cultural organizations.

Author : Anuja Agrawal
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076193457X

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Migrant Women and Work by Anuja Agrawal Pdf

This volume is focused on Asian women who migrate either globally or across the Asian continent or within their respective countries in order to seek work. The contributors cover a broad terrain of issues including the changing gender composition of migration streams; the motivations of individual migrants; the different outcomes of male and female migration; and discernible patterns in the migration of women.

Author : Oliva M. Espín
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137521477

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Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology by Oliva M. Espín Pdf

This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, work, violence, motherhood, and intergenerational impact of migration.

Author : Nana Oishi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804746389

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Women in Motion by Nana Oishi Pdf

Based on fieldwork in ten Asian countries, this book examines cross-national patterns and the impact of globalization, state policies, individual autonomy, and social factors on various women's international migration.