Women in the Indian Diaspora Historical Narratives and Contemporary
This volume brings into focus a range of emergent issues related to women in the Indian diaspora. The conditions propelling women’s migration and their experiences during the process of migration and settlement have always been different and very spe
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Women in the Indian Diaspora Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges
Women in the Indian Diaspora
Amba Pande Editor
Women in the Indian Diaspora Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges
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Editor Amba Pande Centre for Indo-Pacific Studies, School of International Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, Delhi India
ISBN 978-981-10-5950-6 ISBN 978-981-10-5951-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5951-3
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Preface
Patterns of migration and settlement among Indian women are as diverse as that of the overall Indian diaspora. They have shared space with men in most of the groups and streams of people moving beyond Indian borders. However, the initial theoretical and empirical models either omitted or undermined their experiences under homogenised perceptions. As a result, women’s voices, experiences and their critical role in the success story of the Indian diaspora remain to be unnoticed and unmapped. Feminist epistemological interventions in diaspora and migration studies made gender fundamental to the critical understanding of migration and settlement processes and the ongoing course of identity formation in a foreign setting. However, the centrality of gender still revolved around the ‘victimhood’ or ‘passive agents’ paradigm, particularly with regard to women from the Third World. The feminist and subaltern scholarship did take note of this stereotypical representation and started articulating the voice of the ‘other’ woman in the receiving societ
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