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Helps understand the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class. This book examines an immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. It focuses on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Contradictions of Gender When Women Immigrate First 2. Work: Nursing, Women's Networks, and Men "Tied to a Stake" 3. Home: Redoing Gender in Immigrant Households 4. Community: Creating Little Kerala and the Paradox of "Men Who Play" in the Church 5. Transnational Connections: The Janus-Faced Reproduction of an Immigrant Community 6. Conclusions Appendix 1: Interview Participants by Household Type Appendix 2: Types of Nursing Jobs Appendix 3: Transnational Organizational Structure of the Indian Orthodox Church Notes References Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/07/2005
      ISBN13: 9780520243194, 978-0520243194
      ISBN10: 0520243196
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Helps understand the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class. This book examines an immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. It focuses on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations and Tables Foreword Acknowledgments Maps Introduction 1. Contradictions of Gender When Women Immigrate First 2. Work: Nursing, Women's Networks, and Men "Tied to a Stake" 3. Home: Redoing Gender in Immigrant Households 4. Community: Creating Little Kerala and the Paradox of "Men Who Play" in the Church 5. Transnational Connections: The Janus-Faced Reproduction of an Immigrant Community 6. Conclusions Appendix 1: Interview Participants by Household Type Appendix 2: Types of Nursing Jobs Appendix 3: Transnational Organizational Structure of the Indian Orthodox Church Notes References Index

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