Respect, status and domestic work: Female migrants at home and work

Rao, Nitya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147 (2011) Respect, status and domestic work: Female migrants at home and work. European Journal of Development Research, 23 (5). pp. 758-773. ISSN 0957-8811

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Abstract

The transition from adolescence to adulthood is a complex and often contradictory process for female, ethnic minority, migrant strangers, moving as domestic workers to Delhi, India’s capital. Drawing on empirical work in a village in Jharkhand State, which has witnessed increasing migration of adolescent girls as domestic workers to Delhi over the last two decades, this paper highlights the experience of tribal domestic workers at home and at work. It points to their agency in dealing with the contradictions they face between earning incomes, acquiring markers of status and gaining respect across the urban and rural worlds they stride.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User:	Nitya Rao
Date Deposited:	28 Nov 2011 11:10
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2023 08:31
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/35552
DOI:	10.1057/ejdr.2011.41

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