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

Bhatt, Amy Pradip,

High-tech housewives : Indian IT workers, gendered labor, and transmigration / Amy Bhatt. - first edition. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource. - Global South Asia .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: gender, transmigration, and citizenship -- Transmigrants : identity, nationalism, and bridge building -- Engineer brides and H-1B grooms : visas, marriage, and family formation -- Transnational housewives : work restrictions and the gendered division of labor -- Returnees : R2i, citizenship, and the domestic sphere -- Re-migrants : challenges, repatriation, and future migrations -- Conclusion: circulations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.



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Information services industry--Employees.--India
Information services industry--Employees.--United States
Information technology--Employees.--India
Information technology--Employees.--United States
Women foreign workers--India.
Women foreign workers--United States.


Electronic Books.

HD8039 / .H544 2018