Abandoned Women

Transnational Marriages and Gendered Legal Citizens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5853844
AutoresAnupama Roy (0000-0001-7884-6469), Sundari Anitha (0000-0002-6918-3680), Harshita Yalamarty (0000-0002-8633-1286)
Año2019
Volumen34
Número100
Páginas165-181
Fecha de publicación2019-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164649.2019.1644606
OpenAlexW2967060076
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

Abandonment of women in transnational marriages can be understood in the context of specific social milieus of community and kinship relations and legal jurisdictions associated with specific cultures of law. As a sociological-legal category that dismantles the myth of ‘flexible citizenship’ in transnational migration, abandonment must be seen in an experiential matrix constituted by the graded/differentiated diaspora, legal frameworks, and institutional structures, which frame the gendered citizen. This article reads stories of abandonment in legal documents where testimonies are mediated by legal practitioners for ameliorative justice through the court, in tandem with personal narratives of abandonment as reported to the authors. Through this reading, the article explores the way particular narratives of personal hurt and ‘personal/private’ identity – drawing from membership in the family and community – relate with the public identity of the legal citizen, the public governance of marriage by the protective/paternal state, and the ‘promise of happiness’ in marriage

Abandonment (legal · Citizenship · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Gender Studies · Law