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Nepali Migrant Women: Resistance and Survival in America

by Shobha Hamal Gurung , Dorothy E. Smith
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780815634133
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Syracuse University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 216
  • Original Price: USD 29.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 409 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies

In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled labor jobs, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World women as victims forced into low-wage employment. Instead, she sheds light on Nepali women's strategic decisions to accept downwardly mobile positions in order to earn more income, thereby achieving greater agency in their home countries as well as in their diasporic communities in the United States. These women are not only investing in themselves and their families--they are building transnational communities through formal participation in NGOs and informal networks of migrant workers. In great detail, Hamal Gurung documents Nepali migrant women's lives, making visible the profound and far-reaching effects of their civic, economic, and political engagement.

Shobha Hamal Gurung is professor of sociology and women and gender studies at Southern Utah University. She is also the co-coordinator of SUU's Women and Gender Studies Minor Program and the program director of the Nepal Studies Program.

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