High-Tech Housewives : Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bhatt, Amy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
Women foreign workers.
Information services industry > Employees.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor.
Women foreign workers > United States.
Women foreign workers > India.
Information technology > United States > Employees.
Information technology > India > Employees.
Information services industry > United States > Employees.
Information services industry > India > Employees.
United States.
India.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: gender, transmigration, and citizenship
  • Transmigrants : identity, nationalism, and bridge building
  • Engineer brides and H-1B grooms : visas, marriage, and family formation
  • Transnational housewives : work restrictions and the gendered division of labor
  • Returnees : R2i, citizenship, and the domestic sphere
  • Re-migrants : challenges, repatriation, and future migrations
  • Conclusion: circulations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

Similar Items