High-tech housewives

High-tech housewives: Indian IT workers, gendered labor, and transmigration

by Bhatt, Amy

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"Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees face significant migration and visa constraints. In this revealing ethnography, Amy Bhatt shines a spotlight on Indian IT migrants and their struggles to navigate career paths, citizenship, a…

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  • Full title :High-tech housewives : Indian IT workers, gendered labor, and transmigration / Amy Bhatt.

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"Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees face significant migration and visa constraints. In this revealing ethnography, Amy Bhatt shines a spotlight on Indian IT migrants and their struggles to navigate career paths, citizenship, and belonging as they move between South Asia and the United States."--Google Books viewed Aug. 6, 2021.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2018

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 204 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780295743547, 0295743549, 9780295743554, 0295743557, 0295743565, 9780295743561
  • oclc:on1011155199
  • LC Classification:HD8039.I372
  • Dewey Decimal:331.4/8100408991411073

Subjects

India Information services industry -- Employ… Information services industry -- Employ… Information services industry -- Employ… Information technology -- Employees -- … Information technology -- Employees. --… Services d'information -- Personnel. --… Services d'information -- Personnel. --… Technologie de l'information -- Personn… Technologie de l'information -- Personn… Travailleuses étrangères -- États-Unis Travailleuses étrangères -- Inde United States Women foreign workers Women foreign workers -- India Women foreign workers -- United States

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Bhatt, Amy

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