num_pages: 320
description: This volume the first in the series entitled Women and Migration in Asia  focuses on Asian womens experience of immigration and the impact this has on their identity in the context of transnational migration. It highlights the gendered dimension of migration the differential experience of men and women and the consequences of this for women. It also examines the complexities that women encounter in the process of migration emphasizing both the constraints that women experience and the strategies they deploy in making life in the new country more bearable.The volume draws attention to the fluid nature of a migrant womans identity while also pointing out that this fluidity and her identity are regulated to a certain extent by the state and various social institutions. Moreover it examines the manner in which she negotiates with these larger institutions and structuressuch as the state employers the community and welfare institutionsand how these engagements help in defining and restructuring her identity in different ways.
language: English
title: Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity
publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd