By Ramya M. Vijaya,Bidisha Biswas

In fresh years, curiosity within the huge staff of expert immigrants coming from India to the U.S. has soared. even if, this immigration is noticeable as being overwhelmingly male. lady migrants are depicted both as relatives migrants following within the course selected by way of males, or as sufferers of desperation, pressured into the migrant direction as a result of fiscal exigencies.


This ebook investigates the paintings trajectories and comparable assimilation studies of self sustaining Indian girls who've selected their very own migratory pathways within the usa. The hyperlinks among person reviews and the macro tendencies of girls, paintings, immigration and feminism are explored. The authors use old documents, formerly unpublished gender disaggregate immigration facts, and interviews with Indian girls who've migrated to the united states in each decade because the Nineteen Sixties to illustrate that self sufficient migration between Indian ladies has an extended and immense heritage. Their prestige as expert autonomous migrants can characterize a comparatively privileged and empowered selection. even though, their operating lives intersect with the gender constraints of work markets in either India and the USA. Vijaya and Biswas argue that their reports of being fairly empowered, but pushing opposed to gender constraints in various environments, promises a different standpoint to the immigrant assimilation narrative and comparative gender dynamics within the international political economy.


Casting gentle on a hidden, yet regular, circulation in the huge workforce of expert immigrants to the U.S. from India, this e-book could be of curiosity to researchers within the fields of political financial system, anthropology, and sociology, together with migration, race, category, ethnic and gender stories, in addition to Asian studies.

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