Title When women come first : gender and class in transnational migration / Sheba Mariam George.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
	©2005

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E184.E2 G46 2005	Available	---

Description	xviii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Contradictions of gender when women immigrate first -- Work: nursing, women's networks, and men 'tied to a stake' -- Home: redoing gender in immigrant households -- Community: creating Little Kerala and the paradox of 'men who play' in the church -- Transnational connections: the Janus-faced production of an immigrant community -- Conclusions.
Subject	Women, East Indian -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Women, East Indian.
	United States.
	Social conditions.
	Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Women immigrants.
	Women, East Indian -- Employment -- United States.
	East Indian American women -- Employment.
	Women foreign workers -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Women foreign workers.
	Social aspects.
	Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Nurses.
	East Indians -- United States -- Social conditions.
	East Indians.
	Sex role -- United States.
	Sex role.
	Man-woman relationships -- United States.
	Man-woman relationships.
	Man-woman relationships -- India.
	India.
	Transnationalism.
	Transnationalism.
	Gender roles.
ISBN	0520243196 paperback acid-free paper
	0520243188 cloth acid-free paper
	9780520243187 cloth acid-free paper
	9780520243194 paperback acid-free paper