Who Goes? Failures of Marital Provisioning and Women's Agency among Less Skilled Emigrant Women Workers from Kerala

Praveena Kodoth ()

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Abstract: This 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.

Keywords: International Migration; Gender; Domestic Workers; Caste and class; Less Skilled Women workers; Women's Agency; Sexuality; Stigma; migrants; Trivandrum; Kerala (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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