Desi Dreams: Indian Immigrant Women Build Lives Across Two Worlds

Name: Desi Dreams: Indian Immigrant Women Build Lives Across Two Worlds
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ISBN: 9789380607474

ISBN-10: 9380607474

ISBN-13: 9789380607474

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ashidhara Das

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Desi Dreams focuses on the construction of self and identity by Indian immigrant professional and semi-professional women who live and work in the US. The focus in this anthropological fieldwork is on Indian immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have often been defined as a model minority. Indian immigrant women who have achieved entry into the current technology based economy in the Silicon Valley value the capital-accumulation, status-transformation, socio-economic autonomy, and renegotiation of familial gender relations that are made possible by their employment. However, this quintessential American success story conceals the psychic costs of uneasy Americanization, long drawn…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 180
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English