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Transnational migration and the politics of identity / editor, Meenakshi Thapan. . — New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2005..

320 p. 23 cm.

Introduction : making incomplete : identity, woman and the state / Meenakshi Thapan -- From India to an Indian diaspora to a Mauritian diaspora : back-linking as a means for women to feel good locally / Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff -- Women in between : the case of Bangladeshi women living in London / Nilufar Ahmed -- Being American, learning to be Indian : gender and generation in the context of transnational migration / Aparna Rayaprol -- Singular predicaments : unmarried female migrants and the changing Bangladeshi family / Santi Rozario -- Breaking the silence : identity politics and social suffering / Parin Dossa -- Women, home and belonging in UK immigration policy / Irene Gedalof -- Gender, race and racism : the ban of the Islamic headscarf in France / Christine Delphy -- Cultured girls : race, multiculturalism and the Canadian state / Sunera Thobani -- Betwixt the state and everyday life : identity formation among Bengali migrants in a Delhi slum / Maitrayee Chaudhuri.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--Psychology.
Identity (Psychology)