When women come first

When women come first: gender and class in transnational migration

by George, Sheba Mariam

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Extrait de la couverture : "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 coonditions of upheaval,…

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  • Full title :When women come first : gender and class in transnational migration / Sheba Mariam George.

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Extrait de la couverture : "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 coonditions of upheaval, not only in the families and immigrant community, but also in the sending community in India. This richly textured and impeccably research study deftly illustrates the complex reconfigurations of gender and class relations within a quintessnetial American success story."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:cop. 2005.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 vol. (XVIII-259 p.) : : cartes. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0520243188, 9780520243187, 0520243196, 9780520243194
  • oclc:ocn492574768
  • LC Classification:E184.E2
  • Dewey Decimal:305.48/891411073

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Contradictions of gender when women immigrate first -- Work: nursing, women's networks, and men 'tied to a stake' -- Home: redoing gender in immigrant households -- Community: creating Little Kerala and the paradox of 'men who play' in the church -- Transnational connections: the Janus-faced production of an immigrant community -- Conclusions.

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Subjects

Conditions sociales East Indians -- Employment East Indians -- Employment -- United St… East Indians -- Social conditions East Indians -- Social conditions. -- U… États-Unis Femmes -- Conditions sociales. -- États… Immigrantes -- Conditions sociales. -- … Immigrantes -- Travail -- États-Unis immigrée indienne Immigrées -- Conditions sociales -- Éta… Immigrées -- Travail -- États-Unis India Indiennes (de l'Inde) -- Conditions soc… Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) -- Condit… Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) -- Travai… Infirmières Infirmières -- Conditions sociales. -- … Infirmières -- États-Unis Man-woman relationships

Writers

George, Sheba Mariam

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