Desi dreams : Indian immigrant women build lives across two worlds / Ashidhara Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Ashidhara, author.

Contributor:

Singh Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, East Indian--United States--Social conditions.

Women, East Indian.

Women, East Indian--United States--Economic conditions.

Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Women immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 162 pages ; 25 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Delhi : Primus Books, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

At home and at work in the diaspora : theoretical approaches and a statistical overview

In search of success in the American workplace

Professional women at home and in the immigrant community

The construction of the self

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Singh Family Fund.

ISBN:

9789380607474

9380607474

OCLC:

810022595