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.