Indian Immigrant Women And Work

Author : Ramya M. Vijaya,Bidisha Biswas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134990245

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Indian Immigrant Women and Work by Ramya M. Vijaya,Bidisha Biswas Pdf

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 The authors use historical records, previously unpublished gender disaggregate immigration data, and interviews with Indian women who have migrated to the US in every decade since the 1960s to demonstrate that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.

Author : Ashidhara Das
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789380607474

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Desi Dreams by Ashidhara Das Pdf

Desi Dreams focuses on the construction of self and identity by Indian immigrant professional and semi-professional women who live and work in the US. The focus in this anthropological fieldwork is on Indian immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have often been defined as a model minority. Indian immigrant women who have achieved entry into the current technology based economy in the Silicon Valley value the capital-accumulation, status-transformation, socio-economic autonomy, and renegotiation of familial gender relations that are made possible by their employment. However, this quintessential American success story conceals the psychic costs of uneasy Americanization, long drawn out gender battles, and incessant cross-cultural journeys of selves and identities. The outcome is a diasporic identity through the recomposition of Indian culture in the diaspora and strengthening of transnational ties to India.

Author : Arpana Sircar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Alien labor
ISBN : 0773478485

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Work Roles, Gender Roles, and Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United States by Arpana Sircar Pdf

This study addresses the way gender mediates the lives of employed immigrant women in an ethnic minority community. Light is shed on the interplay of race-ethnicity, social class, and history and generates multiple contexts within which individual and collective attitudes are situated.

Author : Ferzana Chaze
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527517974

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The Social Organization of South Asian Immigrant Women's Mothering Work by Ferzana Chaze Pdf

This book examines the social organization of recent immigrant South Asian women’s mothering work. It explicates the processes that contribute to those belonging to this social group making changes to their mothering work after immigrating to Canada despite having reservations about doing so. The book draws its findings from interviews with 20 South Asian immigrant mothers who were raising school aged children in Canada and had been in the country for less than five years. Government policies, websites and newspaper reports also form important data sources for this study. Using institutional ethnography, the book shows the disjuncture between the mothering work of the South Asian immigrant woman and institutionally backed neoliberal discourses in Canada around mothering, schooling and immigrant employment. It highlights the manner in which the settlement experiences for South Asian immigrant women can become stressful and complicated by the changes that these women are required to make in line with these institutional discourses. The study explicates how the work of immigrant mother in the settlement process changes over time as she participates in social relations that require her to raise her children as autonomous responsible citizens who can participate in a neoliberal economy characterised by precarious work. The research that informs this book has implications for the social work profession, which is connected in many ways to the settlement experiences of immigrant women.

Author : Amy Bhatt
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295743561

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High-Tech Housewives by Amy Bhatt Pdf

Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees face significant migration and visa constraints. In this revealing ethnography, Amy Bhatt shines a spotlight on Indian IT migrants and their struggles to navigate career paths, citizenship, and belonging as they move between South Asia and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, Bhatt explores the complex factors that shape IT transmigration and settlement, looking at Indian cultural norms, kinship obligations, friendship networks, gendered and racialized discrimination in the workplace, and inflexible and unstable visa regimes that create worker vulnerability. In particular, Bhatt highlights women’s experiences as workers and dependent spouses who move as part of temporary worker programs. Many of the women interviewed were professional peers to their husbands in India but found themselves “housewives” stateside, unable to secure employment because of visa restrictions. Through her focus on the unpaid and feminized placemaking and caregiving labor these women provide, Bhatt shows how women’s labor within the household is vital to the functioning of the flexible and transnational system of IT itself.

Author : Edwina Pio
Publisher : Dunmore Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015080706503

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Sari by Edwina Pio Pdf

Showcases the lives of Indian women working in New Zealand through four generations, in their own words and through official data. Stories of fabulous success merge with underemployment and no employment. Memories of Maori friendships and Maori relatives intertwine with mentoring by Pakeha women. Sewn into the stories are the spangles of an Indian patriarchal system which supported these women and at the same time created very strict demarcation lines; and the shaded sequins of in-laws who might manipulate them as they sought to carve out their careers and gain an education.

Author : Sheba George
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520938359

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When Women Come First by Sheba George Pdf

With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of upheaval not only in the families and immigrant community but also in the sending community in India. This richly textured and impeccably researched study deftly illustrates the complex reconfigurations of gender and class relations concealed behind a quintessential American success story. When Women Come First explains how men who lost social status in the immigration process attempted to reclaim ground by creating new roles for themselves in their church. Ironically, they were stigmatized by other upper class immigrants as men who needed to "play in the church" because the "nurses were the bosses" in their homes. At the same time, the nurses were stigmatized as lower class, sexually loose women with too much independence. George's absorbing story of how these women and men negotiate this complicated network provides a groundbreaking perspective on the shifting interactions of two nations and two cultures.

Author : Habiba Zaman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 073911235X

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Breaking the Iron Wall by Habiba Zaman Pdf

By providing empirical as well as historical evidence, Habiba Zaman undertakes a rigorous analysis of immigrant women's commodification and the possibility of their decommodification in Canada.

Author : Ruth A. Charles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317776208

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Immigrant Women's Lives by Ruth A. Charles Pdf

First published in 1999. Driven by the interest of the author this study looks at the lives of immigrant women in central New York who are working in the garment industry in hope that by raising awareness Congress will current review legislation when its highlighted how it affects these women and their families. Her view is that the media and public discussion tends to present these women as if they are all illegal immigrants looking for welfare benefits instead of law-abiding, hard-working residents. This research is written to describe what these women are like, what their experiences regarding immigration have been, and how arbitrary legislative policies and regulations affect them. much these women it also illuminates how much personally the woman have sacrificed in the way of social status, cultural comfort, and family relationships to come to the United States.

Author : Zohra Husaini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : OCLC:1431005100

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Social Networks by Zohra Husaini Pdf

The Purpose of the Study - This study is concerned with exploring the process of occupational integration of married East Indian imnigrant women in Canada. It seeks to determine the main channel through \tfiich they gain entry into the labour market. For reasons detailed in Chapter II, the research has proceeded primarily by investigating the influence which the social networks of these women have on their job placement and job mobility. A review of selected relevant literature is found in Chapter III. The literature reviewed includes material on the theory of social networks in the contexts of (a) occupational adjustment in general, (b) the occupational adjustment of imnigrants, and (c) women's occupational adjustment. Methodology - The research design called for collection of survey data and thus required specification of population, constructing a sampling frame and drawing up of a sample representative of the population. The interview schedule included indicators operationalizing social networks and other relevant concepts. These methodological procedures are described in Chapter IV. As the research focussed on married East Indian immigrant women, a sample of 300 women was drawn; 200 from Vancouver and 100 from Edmonton. The reason for choosing these two cities was to compare the functioning of East Indian social networks in the well- established East Indian Community in Vancouver, which was founded in 1904, with a recently established community in Edmonton dating from World War II. The Profile of the East Indian Communities This report contains two kinds of profiles of the East Indian communities. Chapter V describes the historical background of the East Indian communities in Edmonton and Vancouver using published material and Census data. A socio-demographic profile of the sample women who were interviewed is presented in Chapter VI. The 9ocio-demographic profile of the sample women contains an analytical discussion of the following: 1. Demographic characteristics - (a) age; (b) social class background; and (c) education; 2. Migration characteristics including - (a) reasons for migration; (b) mode of entry; and (c) choice of city of residence; 3. Family characteristics which include - (a) husband's background; (b) family size; and (c) family structure; 4. Occupational characteristics of the sample women which consist of their - (a) work motivation; (b) occupational category and occupational class; (c) sources of job information; (d) occupational mobility; and (e) attitudes and perceptions concerning work and success. These findings establish that E.I. women succeed in their occupational quest through their social networks. Given this broad statement, the specific findings from the test of hypotheses are stated below. Hypothesis 1 is based on the normative aspect of social networks. It was hypothesized that social network noxms create aspiration or motivation to work, among East Indian women. The findings from this hypothesis showed that this is the case with women in Vancouver sample with some qualifications discussed below. However the women of the Edmonton community appear to be relatively unaffected by their social network's normative influence. Hypothesis 2 stated that male social networks are more helpful in actual job placement of these women than their female social networks. This presuppositon was tested for the women of both communities in their first as well as in their last job. There was no support for this hypothesis although in Edmonton, some differences were found to exist between the first and in the last jobs of these women. Hypothesis 3 established that ethnic networks are more helpful in the actual occupational placement of these women than their non-ethnic social networks in the case of first jobs of East Indian women in both communities, but variations were noted. Hypothesis 4 established that the newly arrived East Indian women would be channelled into broad occupational categories similar to their female social network members. This implies ethnic clustering in certain occupations. Hypothesis 5 asserted that the occupational status of women in the social networks of East Indian women would be positively associated with their interest in their occupational commitment. The findings showed that the hypothesis is confirmed in the case of Vancouver women. Hypothesis 6 asserting that "The East Indian women, who come in contact with women having higher occupational status, will show more interest in occupational mobility than those who have not" was confirmed for Vancouver only. Hypothesis 7 asserts that jobs found through the female social networks of East Indian women are less frequently stepping stone jobs than the jobs found through their male networks. This hypothesis is not statistically confirmed for Vancouver women, or for lower class Edmonton women. The hypothesis is confirmed for one category of Edmonton women. Hypothesis 8 states that the mobility (stepping stone vs. "dead end") potential of jobs held by East Indian women is positively associated with the occupational level of their social networks. The findings show that this hypothesis finds support from our data only in the case of female social networks for upper class Vancouver women with higher education only. The most striking fact that emerges from these findings is the difference between the wanen of these two corrmunities. All but two hypotheses were confirmed in the case of Vancouver sample and all but one hypothesis were not confirmed in the case of Edmonton sample. It suggests that we are dealing with two kinds of populations with different histories and different socio-econanic compositions. In the final chapter, an explanation of these differences is attempted in terms of three interrelated factors: 1. the migration history of the two communities; 2. the duration of the establishment of social network; and 3. socio-economic and educational differences between the two sub-sample women. This chapter concludes with theoretical and policy implications suggested by this research.

Author : Mayukh Sen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781324004523

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Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen Pdf

A New York Times Editors' Choice pick Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Wall Street Journal, Food Network, KCRW, WBUR Here & Now, Emma Straub, and Globe and Mail One of the Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 America’s modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef; Marcella Hazan, the deity of Italian cuisine; and Norma Shirley, a champion of Jamaican dishes. In imaginative, lively prose, Mayukh Sen—a queer, brown child of immigrants—reconstructs the lives of these women in vivid and empathetic detail, daring to ask why some were famous in their own time, but not in ours, and why others shine brightly even today. Weaving together histories of food, immigration, and gender, Taste Makers will challenge the way readers look at what’s on their plate—and the women whose labor, overlooked for so long, makes those meals possible.

Author : Tania Das Gupta
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774865692

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Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced by Tania Das Gupta Pdf

Twice Migrated, Twice Displaced explores the lives of Gulf South Asians who arrived in Canada from India and Pakistan via Persian Gulf countries. Tania Das Gupta reveals the multiple migration patterns of this group, analyzing themes such as gender, racial, and religious discrimination; class mobility; the formation of transnational families; and identities in a post-9/11 context. This perceptive study demonstrates the effect of neoliberal labour markets and transnationalism on community building, diaspora, citizenship, and a sense of belonging when in Canada.

Author : Sathi Sengupta Dasgupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UCAL:B3494355

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On the Trail of an Uncertain Dream by Sathi Sengupta Dasgupta Pdf

Author : Ramya M. Vijaya,Bidisha Biswas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134990177

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Indian Immigrant Women and Work by Ramya M. Vijaya,Bidisha Biswas Pdf

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.

Author : Aparna Rayaprol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004176681

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Negotiating Identities by Aparna Rayaprol Pdf

This book is about how immigrant communities conceptualize, and indeed actualize, the process of reconstruction in a foreign land. Faced with a disjunctive crisis, a community can find in religion "a major symbolic resource" that helps to make such rebuilding possible. In this book, the community in question is South Indian, and the material representation of their coming together is the Sri Venkateswara temple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The author examines the dynamics of gender roles within this specific occurrence of India-to-America immigration, emphasizing the ways in which both women and girls (by way of cultural and religious activities related to the temple) have created a niche for themselves with in the community.