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High-Tech Housewives - Indian It Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Amy Bhatt is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and coauthor with Nalini Iyer of Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest (UWP, 2013). Klappentext Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational employees face significant migration and visa constraints. In this revealing ethnography, Amy Bhatt shines a spotlight on Indian IT migrants and their struggles to navigate career paths, citizenship, and belonging as they move between South Asia and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, Bhatt explores the complex factors that shape IT transmigration and settlement, looking at Indian cultural norms, kinship obligations, friendship networks, gendered and racialized discrimination in the workplace, and inflexible and unstable visa regimes that create worker vulnerability. In particular, Bhatt highlights women's experiences as workers and dependent spouses who move as part of temporary worker programs. Many of the women interviewed were professional peers to their husbands in India but found themselves ?housewives? stateside, unable to secure employment because of visa restrictions. Through her focus on the unpaid and feminized placemaking and caregiving labor these women provide, Bhatt shows how women's labor within the household is vital to the functioning of the flexible and transnational system of IT itself.

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Authors Amy Bhatt
Assisted by Padma Kaimal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor), Anand A Yang (Editor), Anand A. Yang (Editor)
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2018
 
EAN 9780295743554
ISBN 978-0-295-74355-4
No. of pages 224
Series Global South Asia
Global South Asia
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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