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Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage
Contributor(s): Belford, Nish (Editor), Lahiri-Roy, Reshmi (Editor)
ISBN: 0367516810     ISBN-13: 9780367516819
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $171.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2020
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Regional Studies
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 305.488
LCCN: 2020037467
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.9" W x 9.7" (2.20 lbs) 230 pages
 
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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.