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When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
Sheba George
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Description for When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration
Paperback. Helps understand the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class. This book examines an immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. It focuses on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 line illustrations, 2 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 59.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520243194
SKU
V9780520243194
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Sheba George
Sheba Mariam George is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Assistant Professor at the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science. She is coauthor of Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (California, 2000).
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