Nanzeen, married off to a man twice her age, moves from her Bangladeshi village to live with him in London in the 1980s and 1990s, where she raises a family, learns to love her husband, and comes to a realization that she has a voice in her own life.
Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age and moved to London, where she begins to wonder if she has a say in her own destiny.
This dissertation examines intra-immigrant group similarities and differences in migration and settlement experiences, taking two south Asian subgroups in Toronto---Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis---as a case study. The research contributes theoretically and empirically to thre…