High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration (Global South Asia)

Bhatt, Amy

ISBN 10: 0295743549 / ISBN 13: 9780295743547

Edité par University of Washington Press, 2018

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• Titre: High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration (Global South Asia)
• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date de parution: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0295743549
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780295743547
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• État de l'article: New

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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.

À propos des auteurs

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).

Padma Kaimal is Batza Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University. She is the author of Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) and Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space (Washington, 2021).

Anand A. Yang is professor of international studies and history at the University of Washington. He is coeditor of Interactions: Transregional Perspectives on World History (Hawai'i, 2005), coeditor of Thirteen Months in China: A Subaltern Indian and the Colonial World (Oxford, 2017), and author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (California, 2021).

Kalyanakrishnan "Shivi" Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, professor of anthropology, professor of forestry and environmental studies, and codirector of the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.