Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780367537289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 230 str.

Nish Belford; Reshmi Lahiri-Roy

Opis

This book explores the influence which education and migration experiences have on women of Indian origin in Australia and the United Kingdom when (re)negotiating their identities.

The intersections of migration and transnationalism are critically examined through multiple theoretical lenses across three thematic domains encompassing socio-historical discourses, postcolonial theory, theories on intersectionality and interceptionality, emotional reflexivity and affects. In doing so, the book highlights the ambiguities around gendered access and equity to education, migration experiences, the acculturation process, dilemmas surrounding transnationality and negotiation of identities, belonging and struggles inherent in simultaneously maintaining ties with home and new social fields. Chapters highlight the practical, methodological, and substantive aspects of affective dimensions and voice with a critical understanding of different tensions, challenges, complexities and conflicts underlining the stories. The book raises the question of voice and agency in advocating emotion-based writing in recalibrating conditions representing gendered subjective multivocality of women in breaking silences.

Presenting non-Western perspectives through fragmented and often marginalised accounts within transnational and global spaces, this book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Sociology, Gender Studies, Migration, Transnational and Diaspora studies, Sociology of Education, Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies, Literature and Cultural Geographies.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. "Listen and You’ll Hear": Autoethnography and Educational Desire  2. Autoethnographic Stories in Academia from Two Women of Diasporas  3. Melbourne Musings: On Narrative Mediation  4. The interplay of acculturation attitudes, cultural beliefs and educational values in negotiating my identity as an Indo-Australian academic  5. Narrative of Multiculturalism: aptly describing where I am today as an early childhood educator  6. The dilemma of being seen and unseen: my dark skin amongst the white walls  7. The colonisation of spiritual identity: Implications for belonging, social cohesion and wellbeing in Australian Catholic Education  8. Transnational women of Indian origin: intra-hybridity shifts and the continual topos of ‘being’  9. Reflections through the Looking Glass: Voices from Strong Women of Urban Pakistan  10. Renegotiation of identity in Australia through the Reunionese art form: Maloya  11. In Conversation: Suneeta Peres da Costa & Roanna Gonsalves  12. The ‘emotional and affective labour’ as a transnational woman in negotiating intimacies with cultural ‘others’ and homeland friends  13. Transient Temples’: How do I pray to my old Gods on these new lands, in this new home?  14. Everyday Objects and Conversations: Experiencing ‘Self’ in the Transnational Space of the United Kingdom  15. Between Hypervisible and Invisible: Modi, Marriage and Migrant Women in Australian Media