Labor, Migration, Households, and Reproducing the "Transnational Housewife"

Dr. Amy Bhatt examines how family formation, marriage and reproduction allow temporary Indian migrants to make claims on the U.S. state even though they are classified as "non-immigrant" workers who are expected to return to their home country of India. Using ethnographic and online evidence, Dr. Bhatt examines how reproduction becomes a strategy for renegotiating the value of national citizenship in the face of neoliberal immigration and labor policies.

Sponsored by ARHU-DRIF, Asian American Studies Program, and Department of Women's Studies.

Date: Friday, Nov. 15, 2013
Time: 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: 2101 Woods Hall Conference Room