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When women come first : gender and class in transnational migration / Sheba Mariam George.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Sheba Mariam, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, East Indian--United States--Social conditions.
- Women, East Indian.
- Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants.
- Women, East Indian--Employment--United States.
- Women foreign workers--Social aspects--United States.
- Women foreign workers.
- Nurses--United States--Social conditions.
- Nurses.
- East Indians--United States--Social conditions.
- East Indians.
- Sex role--United States.
- Sex role.
- Man-woman relationships--United States.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Man-woman relationships--India.
- Transnationalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Women as primary immigrants and breadwinners
- Work
- Home
- Community
- Transnational connections
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612357978
- 9780520938359
- 0520938356
- 9781282357976
- 1282357972
- 9781417593293
- 1417593296
- 9781598755480
- 159875548X
- OCLC:
- 475938433
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