TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gupta,Monisha Das
TI  - Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States
SN  - 8131713008
U1  - 305.8914073 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Duke University Press Books
KW  - Unruly Immigrants, Terms of belongings, Contests over Culture, Law and Oppressions, Women's Organizations, Owing our Lives, Queer Organization ,
N1  - 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
; Including with references and index
ER  -