On the Edges of Belonging: Indian American Dalits, Queers, Guest Workers and Questions of Ethnic Belonging

Adur, Shweta Majumdar; Purkayastha, Bandana

doi:10.1080/07256868.2013.821214

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“…Some examples would be exploration of intersectional methodologies (McCall 2005; Walby 2009), or empirical studies of ethnicity and migration (Manohar 2019; Purkayastha 2005; Valdez 2016), or religion and intersectionality (Avishai 2020; Purkayastha 2012; Singh 2015). Some of this work departs from the trifecta of race, class, and gender, focusing on such other social locations as class, age, and migration status (Anthias 2008; Enriquez 2017; Fathi 2017); disability, sexuality, and class (Cole 2022; Martino 2017; Slater and Liddiard 2018); gender, class, and migration status (Banerjee 2019; Lowe 1996); and transnationalism, caste, and gender (Adur and Narayan 2017; Adur and Purkayastha 2013; Banerjee, Khandelwal, and Sanyal 2022). Although there is nothing inherently amiss in engaging in intersectional analysis beyond the trifecta, we argue that to understand structural violence in the United States we need to return to theorizing the co-determinative impact of gender and race, as forewarned by Crenshaw.…”

Section: Recentering Women Of Color In Intersectional Analysismentioning

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Race, Gender, and Violence

Banerjee

Hwang

2023

Gender & Society

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In this introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Race and Violence, we go back to the roots of intersectionality and foreground an intersectional lens in our examination of violence against women and non-binary people of color. We argue that it is important to address the persistent “epistemic violence” resultant from silencing the most marginal, by featuring works that call attention to and examine violence against groups subjected to the “interlocking oppressions” of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The articles in the Special Issue re-directs the sociological analysis of violence to foreground scholarship that engages in the gendered and racial appraisal of violence. Studies included in the issue also foreground sexuality, which has largely been neglected in the intersectional analysis of violence. In so doing, we nod to both the past and the future of intersectionality in studies of violence.

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Section: Recentering Women Of Color In Intersectional Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, Gender, and Violence

Banerjee

Hwang

2023

Gender & Society

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“…For South Asians, the model minority ideology became central to how they conceptualized their place in the US and coped with racism (for more on this see Adur and Purkayastha, 2013). Within the community and many families, rules for sexual behavior and propriety were rigidly defined and zealously regulated; these boundaries emphasized heterosexual monogamy.…”

Section: The ‘New’ Immigrants – From Insecure and Reviled Minority Tomentioning

confidence: 99%

In pursuit of love: ‘Safe passages’, migration and queer South Asians in the US

Adur

2017

Current Sociology

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In the last decade or two the notion of human security has emerged as a benchmark for assessing the quality of everyday lives. Despite the paradigmatic shift, scholarly inquiries on human security rarely center sexual migrants. This article attends to this gap. Based on 30 in-depth interviews and supplemented with web material, the article describes the unique and multidimensional vulnerabilities endured by queer immigrants of color – queer South Asians – in the US. The article simultaneously contextualizes and moves beyond the areas of law and public policy, to examine queer migration and security from the subjective lens of the migrants (documented, undocumented, refugee and asylees) in order to demonstrate that safety, security and acceptance are negotiated with multiple agents (such as intimate partners, family, co-ethnic community, etc.) amid social cleavages (such as class, nationality, religion, gender and age) that facilitate or interrupt migration in ‘glocal’ contexts where the global and local intersect in complex ways to suffuse all such experiences.

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“…Building on this recent body of work around marriage and sexuality, I critically examine the difficulties of attributing specific practices or patterns of agency to women in relation to their caste position or type of marriage, given both the internal hierarchies and asymmetries that lead to competition for status and survival within these groups (cf. Adur and Puryakastha 2013) and the wider changes in the local political economy context. agencY, inTeRSecTionaliTY and Voice: SoMe concepTual conSideRaTionS "Agency" as the ability to act, decide, and influence, has received considerable attention in development research, particularly in the context of women's voice and empowerment (cf.…”

Section: Marriage and Sexuality In India: Reinforcing Caste And Gender Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Marriage and Sexuality In India: Reinforcing Caste And Gendementioning

confidence: 99%