Transnational migration and the politics of identity
By: editor, Meenakshi Thapan.
Contributors: Thapan, Meenakshi.
Series: Women and migration in Asia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Immigrants -- Psychology.; Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : making incomplete : identity, woman and the state / Meenakshi Thapan; title: From India to an Indian diaspora to a Mauritian diaspora : back-linking as a means for women to feel good locally / Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff; title: Women in between : the case of Bangladeshi women living in London / Nilufar Ahmed; title: Being American, learning to be Indian : gender and generation in the context of transnational migration / Aparna Rayaprol; title: Singular predicaments : unmarried female migrants and the changing Bangladeshi family / Santi Rozario; title: Breaking the silence : identity politics and social suffering / Parin Dossa; title: Women, home and belonging in UK immigration policy / Irene Gedalof; title: Gender, race and racism : the ban of the Islamic headscarf in France / Christine Delphy; title: Cultured girls : race, multiculturalism and the Canadian state / Sunera Thobani; title: Betwixt the state and everyday life : identity formation among Bengali migrants in a Delhi slum / Maitrayee Chaudhuri.