Indian Household Workers in Hong Kong
Resilience and Transnational Family Relationships
(Sprache: Englisch)
Transnational relationships between Indian migrant women household workersin Hong Kong and their family members in India is the focus of the book.The impact of migration on these solo women migrants, the strengths thatthey draw from work, income and...
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Transnational relationships between Indian migrant women household workers
in Hong Kong and their family members in India is the focus of the book.
The impact of migration on these solo women migrants, the strengths that
they draw from work, income and friendship ties developed with fellow
migrants at destination, and the cumulative impact these have on transnational
relationships with families that they left behind, were unknown.
Firstly, it emerged that Indian migrant women household workers in Hong
Kong drew strength from their membership of small groups by developing
reciprocal ?lunch box rights?. Secondly, the concept of ?bangled husband?
highlighted the reversal of gender roles between breadwinning migrant wives
and their non-migrant husbands. Thirdly, the pain of separation was central
to the transnational relationships between mothers and the children they left
behind. Finally, it was only after migrant women household workers struck a
balance in the disbursal of their income between the demands from family
members as well as their own needs for education, recreation and accumulation
that it worked in their favour to gain influence in their natal or
marital family.
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Transnational relationships between Indian migrant women household workersin Hong Kong and their family members in India is the focus of the book.
The impact of migration on these solo women migrants, the strengths that
they draw from work, income and friendship ties developed with fellow
migrants at destination, and the cumulative impact these have on transnational
relationships with families that they left behind, were unknown.
Firstly, it emerged that Indian migrant women household workers in Hong
Kong drew strength from their membership of small groups by developing
reciprocal ?lunch box rights?. Secondly, the concept of ?bangled husband?
highlighted the reversal of gender roles between breadwinning migrant wives
and their non-migrant husbands. Thirdly, the pain of separation was central
to the transnational relationships between mothers and the children they left
behind. Finally, it was only after migrant women household workers struck a
balance in the disbursal of their income between the demands from family
members as well as their own needs for education, recreation and accumulation
that it worked in their favour to gain influence in their natal or
marital family.
Autoren-Porträt von James J. Keezhangatte
KEEZHANGATTE James Joseph,Honorary Lecturer,Department of Social Work and SocialAdministration, The University of Hong Kong;Doctor of Philosophy from the University of HongKong. Field of study: Ethnic minority communitiesin Hong Kong, Social inclusion, Transnationalmigration of Indian women domestic workers andfamily relationships.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James J. Keezhangatte
- 2008, Maße: 17 x 24 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
- ISBN-10: 3836417006
- ISBN-13: 9783836417006
Sprache:
Englisch
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