Reena Kukreja
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 249569 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Reena Kukreja |
| NOMBRES | Reena |
| APELLIDO | Kukreja |
| FIRMA | KUKREJA R |
| AFILIACIONES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8868-2573 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
South Asians in Southern Europe
Undocumented migrant workers as activist citizens
This article discusses the foregrounding of migrant activism through a photovoice project that emerged organically from groups of undocumented South Asian migrant men in Greece. It argues that this collective creative action against the criminalization of migrant ‘illegality’ constitutes an active act of citizenship that contests, from below, exclusionary citizenship rights and formal modes of inclusion into the body politic of a nation state. Is…
Trafficked or Married? Unpacking Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Cross-Region Marriage Migration in India
The article, based on original research from 246 villages, discusses contemporary marriage migrations of poor women from India's development peripheries to rural North Indian men. Anti-trafficking activists and organizations in India assert that migrant brides are trafficked into sexual slavery through 'coerced' alliances. Employing a postcolonial feminist lens, this article challenges hegemonic anti-trafficking discourse with its gendered presum…
Masculine borders as alienation of racialized, undocumented south Asian migrant workers in Greece
Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani low-class male migrants in Greece are marked by migrant precarity due to their undocumented status and by a flattened South Asian racialised masculine identity. Collectively othered, they struggle with symbolic borders created by colonial and postcolonial encounters, national identities, religion, and masculine expectations. This article explores how ideologies of prejudice and divisiveness in Greece work in tan…
Introduction
The introduction to the Special Issue (SI) presents the collection's theorization on the impact of everyday, micro-level borders that are propelled by discourses of Islamophobia, racism, and ethnonationalism related to racialized migrant men's masculinities in the European Union (EU).Along with the increased movement of racialized (Muslim) men to the EU's shores have come crisis narratives about their otherness to b/order them.These borders opera…
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion
This article discusses a unique cultural politics of identity affirmation and resistance enacted in the rural spaces of Greece by male migrants from India and Pakistan through the game of Kabaddi, a rural indigenous sport. Drawing on interviews with South Asian migrant men and observation of Kabaddi tournament in Greece, it argues that the play of Kabaddi offers deliberate performative acts of masculine resistance against the emasculatory borderi…
Why Would I Be Married Here?
This book examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. The book connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cros…
Why Would I Be Married Here?
Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal…
Introduction
Recouping masculinity
Covid-19, Racial Capitalism, and Undocumented Bangladeshi Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece
This article uses the example of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in the strawberry sector of Greece to highlight how racial capitalism heightens the health vulnerabilities of racialized low-class migrant workers and exposes them to a greater risk of COVID-19 transmission. Race-based devaluation of workers intersects with migrant illegality and culturally-specific masculine norms to normalize a discourse of healthcare “undeservingness” for undoc…
Visible yet invisible
This article relates the Foucauldian theorisation of self-surveillance to the contradictory (non)presence of racialized labouring bodies of South Asian men in rural Greece. The disciplinary mechanism of temporary labour and migration regimes, exercised through migrant illegality and threat of deportations, works efficiently to make the men conform to a certain set of societal behaviours, erase their presence from Greek public spaces, and extract …
Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood
This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men's encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state …
Colorism as Marriage Capital
This article, based on original research from 57 villages in four provinces from North and East India, sheds light on a hitherto unexplored gendered impact of colorism in facilitating noncustomary cross-region marriage migrations in India. Within socioeconomically marginalized groups from India's development peripheries, the hegemonic construct of fairness as 'capital' conjoins with both regressive patriarchal gender norms governing marriage and …
Caste and Cross-region Marriages in Haryana, India
This article, based on original research in 75 villages in the North Indian state of Haryana, examines long-distance marriages of its dominant-peasant caste men with low-caste (Dalit) women from other parts of India. The male marriage squeeze caused by the female deficit in Haryana has led to this breach in the rules of caste endogamy in matrimony. These marriages and the gender status of such Dalit brides are situated within the context of polar…
An Unwanted Weed
This article, based on original research in 226 villages from two North Indian provinces of Haryana and Rajasthan, examines the status of children of an emergent category of cross-region marriages among the Hindus and the Meo Muslims that breach customary marriage norms as the brides belong to a different caste, ethnicity, region, and sometimes, even religion than the husbands. Since the mid-1990s, rural bachelors began seeking wives from distant…
Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood
This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men's encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state …
Caste and Cross-region Marriages in Haryana, India
This article, based on original research in 75 villages in the North Indian state of Haryana, examines long-distance marriages of its dominant-peasant caste men with low-caste (Dalit) women from other parts of India. The male marriage squeeze caused by the female deficit in Haryana has led to this breach in the rules of caste endogamy in matrimony. These marriages and the gender status of such Dalit brides are situated within the context of polar…
Recouping masculinity
Visible yet invisible
This article relates the Foucauldian theorisation of self-surveillance to the contradictory (non)presence of racialized labouring bodies of South Asian men in rural Greece. The disciplinary mechanism of temporary labour and migration regimes, exercised through migrant illegality and threat of deportations, works efficiently to make the men conform to a certain set of societal behaviours, erase their presence from Greek public spaces, and extract …
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion
This article discusses a unique cultural politics of identity affirmation and resistance enacted in the rural spaces of Greece by male migrants from India and Pakistan through the game of Kabaddi, a rural indigenous sport. Drawing on interviews with South Asian migrant men and observation of Kabaddi tournament in Greece, it argues that the play of Kabaddi offers deliberate performative acts of masculine resistance against the emasculatory borderi…
Colorism as Marriage Capital
This article, based on original research from 57 villages in four provinces from North and East India, sheds light on a hitherto unexplored gendered impact of colorism in facilitating noncustomary cross-region marriage migrations in India. Within socioeconomically marginalized groups from India's development peripheries, the hegemonic construct of fairness as 'capital' conjoins with both regressive patriarchal gender norms governing marriage and …
Covid-19, Racial Capitalism, and Undocumented Bangladeshi Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece
This article uses the example of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in the strawberry sector of Greece to highlight how racial capitalism heightens the health vulnerabilities of racialized low-class migrant workers and exposes them to a greater risk of COVID-19 transmission. Race-based devaluation of workers intersects with migrant illegality and culturally-specific masculine norms to normalize a discourse of healthcare “undeservingness” for undoc…
An Unwanted Weed
This article, based on original research in 226 villages from two North Indian provinces of Haryana and Rajasthan, examines the status of children of an emergent category of cross-region marriages among the Hindus and the Meo Muslims that breach customary marriage norms as the brides belong to a different caste, ethnicity, region, and sometimes, even religion than the husbands. Since the mid-1990s, rural bachelors began seeking wives from distant…
Introduction
The introduction to the Special Issue (SI) presents the collection's theorization on the impact of everyday, micro-level borders that are propelled by discourses of Islamophobia, racism, and ethnonationalism related to racialized migrant men's masculinities in the European Union (EU).Along with the increased movement of racialized (Muslim) men to the EU's shores have come crisis narratives about their otherness to b/order them.These borders opera…
Caste and Cross-region Marriages in Haryana, India
This article, based on original research in 75 villages in the North Indian state of Haryana, examines long-distance marriages of its dominant-peasant caste men with low-caste (Dalit) women from other parts of India. The male marriage squeeze caused by the female deficit in Haryana has led to this breach in the rules of caste endogamy in matrimony. These marriages and the gender status of such Dalit brides are situated within the context of polar…
An Unwanted Weed
This article, based on original research in 226 villages from two North Indian provinces of Haryana and Rajasthan, examines the status of children of an emergent category of cross-region marriages among the Hindus and the Meo Muslims that breach customary marriage norms as the brides belong to a different caste, ethnicity, region, and sometimes, even religion than the husbands. Since the mid-1990s, rural bachelors began seeking wives from distant…
Recouping masculinity
Covid-19, Racial Capitalism, and Undocumented Bangladeshi Agricultural Workers in Manolada, Greece
This article uses the example of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants in the strawberry sector of Greece to highlight how racial capitalism heightens the health vulnerabilities of racialized low-class migrant workers and exposes them to a greater risk of COVID-19 transmission. Race-based devaluation of workers intersects with migrant illegality and culturally-specific masculine norms to normalize a discourse of healthcare “undeservingness” for undoc…
Visible yet invisible
This article relates the Foucauldian theorisation of self-surveillance to the contradictory (non)presence of racialized labouring bodies of South Asian men in rural Greece. The disciplinary mechanism of temporary labour and migration regimes, exercised through migrant illegality and threat of deportations, works efficiently to make the men conform to a certain set of societal behaviours, erase their presence from Greek public spaces, and extract …
Migration has Stripped Us of Our Manhood
This article explores the contradictions of the failed masculine stature of South Asian male migrants in Greece. Transnational migration provides low-class rural Indian and Pakistani men an opportunity to socially re-inscribe their adult breadwinner stature. It discusses relational hierarchies of masculinities that shape these men's encounters with Greek employers, compatriots in Greece, and transnationally located families. Discriminatory state …
Colorism as Marriage Capital
This article, based on original research from 57 villages in four provinces from North and East India, sheds light on a hitherto unexplored gendered impact of colorism in facilitating noncustomary cross-region marriage migrations in India. Within socioeconomically marginalized groups from India's development peripheries, the hegemonic construct of fairness as 'capital' conjoins with both regressive patriarchal gender norms governing marriage and …
Why Would I Be Married Here?
This book examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. The book connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cros…
Why Would I Be Married Here?
Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal…
Introduction
Masculine borders as alienation of racialized, undocumented south Asian migrant workers in Greece
Bangladeshi, Indian, and Pakistani low-class male migrants in Greece are marked by migrant precarity due to their undocumented status and by a flattened South Asian racialised masculine identity. Collectively othered, they struggle with symbolic borders created by colonial and postcolonial encounters, national identities, religion, and masculine expectations. This article explores how ideologies of prejudice and divisiveness in Greece work in tan…
Introduction
The introduction to the Special Issue (SI) presents the collection's theorization on the impact of everyday, micro-level borders that are propelled by discourses of Islamophobia, racism, and ethnonationalism related to racialized migrant men's masculinities in the European Union (EU).Along with the increased movement of racialized (Muslim) men to the EU's shores have come crisis narratives about their otherness to b/order them.These borders opera…
Using indigenous sport as resistance against migrant exclusion
This article discusses a unique cultural politics of identity affirmation and resistance enacted in the rural spaces of Greece by male migrants from India and Pakistan through the game of Kabaddi, a rural indigenous sport. Drawing on interviews with South Asian migrant men and observation of Kabaddi tournament in Greece, it argues that the play of Kabaddi offers deliberate performative acts of masculine resistance against the emasculatory borderi…
Undocumented migrant workers as activist citizens
This article discusses the foregrounding of migrant activism through a photovoice project that emerged organically from groups of undocumented South Asian migrant men in Greece. It argues that this collective creative action against the criminalization of migrant ‘illegality’ constitutes an active act of citizenship that contests, from below, exclusionary citizenship rights and formal modes of inclusion into the body politic of a nation state. Is…
Trafficked or Married? Unpacking Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Cross-Region Marriage Migration in India
The article, based on original research from 246 villages, discusses contemporary marriage migrations of poor women from India's development peripheries to rural North Indian men. Anti-trafficking activists and organizations in India assert that migrant brides are trafficked into sexual slavery through 'coerced' alliances. Employing a postcolonial feminist lens, this article challenges hegemonic anti-trafficking discourse with its gendered presum…
South Asians in Southern Europe
Gender Studies (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Caste (5 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 obras) · Masculinity (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras) · Criminology (4 obras)