Who Goes? Failures of Marital Provisioning and Women's Agency among Less Skilled Emigrant Women Workers from Kerala
Published By: CDS on eSS | Published Date: March, 01 , 2014This
paper draws upon a selection of narratives from interviews with over
150 less skilled emigrant and returnee women workers from Trivandrum
district to argue that the conditions that structure international migration
from Kerala marginalises women, narrowing the material base from which
aspiring migrants are drawn and rendering their agency suspect but
emigrant women maneuver local and family patriarchy by foregrounding
the failure of marital provisioning and create the space to go.
Author(s): Praveena Kodoth | Posted on: Jul 14, 2014 | Views(790) | Download (644)