Gupta, Monisha Das.

Unruly Immigrants : Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States - New York Duke University Press Books, 2006 - ix, 318 p. 15.5x23.5 cm

In Unruly Immigrants, Monisha Das Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship. Das Gupta offers an ethnography of seven South Asian organizations in the northeastern United States, looking at their development and politics as well as the conflicts that have emerged within the groups over questions of sexual, class, and political identities. She examines the ways that women's organizations have defined and responded to questions of domestic violence as they relate to women's immigration status; describes the construction of a transnational South


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Unruly Immigrants, Terms of belongings, Contests over Culture, Law and Oppressions, Women's Organizations, Owing our Lives, Queer Organization ,

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