Editors:
- Extracts women’s experiences and voices from the meta-narratives of indentured migration and settlement of Indians in various plantation colonies
- Brings together a group of scholars who take an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to describe women’s experiences at various locations of settlement
- Highlights women not only as ‘victims’ and ‘bearers of Indian tradition,’ but also emphasizes their agency to emerge as an important economic, political and social driving force and conceive new identities beyond the fixed definitions of femininity
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Frameworks
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Challenges, Struggles and Empowerment: The African Context
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Indentureship and Emancipation in the Asia-Pacific
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Sexuality, Liminality and Agency: The Caribbean Context
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About this book
The book discusses indentured women from a multidisciplinary perspective and adopts multiple methodologies, including primary and secondary sources, personal narrations, pictorial representations and theoretical discussions. It also provides an overview of the current discourses and the changing paradigms of the studies on Indian indentured women. Further, it presents a detailed, region-wise description of indentured women migrants. The regions covered in this book are Asia- Pacific (countries covered are Fiji, Burma and Nepal); Africa (countries covered are South Africa, Mauritius and Reunion Island); and the Caribbean (countries covered are Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago). In addition, one full section of the book is devoted to the theoretical frameworks that touch upon gender performativity, normative misogyny, Bahadur's Coolie Women, literary representations and resistance movements.
It is intended for academics and researches in the field of diaspora/migration/transnational studies, history, sociology, literature, women/gender studies, as well as policymakers and general readers interested in the personal experiences of women and migrants.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Amba Pande
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora
Editors: Amba Pande
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1177-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1176-9Published: 30 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1179-0Published: 30 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1177-6Published: 03 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 225
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Diaspora, Gender Studies, Social Anthropology