Bindhulakshmi Pattadath
Biographic Data
| ID | 104789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bindhulakshmi Pattadath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bindhulakshmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Pattadath |
| SIGNATURE | PATTADATH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Academic Mumbai India |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2178-7546 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making things work, practically
Drawing on ethnography that involved in‐depth online interviews with parents of adult autistic individuals in India, this article focuses on the experiences of five interlocutors to examine the nuanced understanding of disability, family, and care in the context of COVID‐19 in India and, more broadly, in the realm of disability. Anchored in a feminist philosophical framework of care, the study addresses two pivotal questions. First, it explores h…
Ways of Seeing’—Policy paradigms and unfree labour in India
This article traces the trajectory of different initiatives to address unfree labour and their impact on workers’ capacity to aspire to and exercise their rights in India. We attempt to understand the dimensions and effects of different ‘ways of seeing’ precarity and exploitation within the larger context of economic policies, social structures such as caste-based discrimination, gender-based violence, and state indifference. In a caste and gende…
The Blurred Boundaries of Migration
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the lives of women domestic workers who have migrated from Kerala to the United Arab Emirates, this article attempts to examine the broad institutional framework within which transnational migration is negotiated. The article focusses on the negotiating practices women adopt while moving between different legal systems within the institutional framework that defines their nature of migration. This a…
Moving between Kerala and Dubai
Gender, Illegality and Licitness Mobility across international borders as well as state attempts to curtail this are facts of life for women such as Seena, Suja, Mariyam and Hussaiba who have worked for up to twenty years as foreign domestic workers in the Gulf. They are part and parcel of the large number of impoverished women from Kerala who leave their native lands and arrive in Dubai. Some had first worked elsewhere – Hussaiba in Saudi Arabia…
Moving between Kerala and Dubai Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems
The Blurred Boundaries of Migration
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the lives of women domestic workers who have migrated from Kerala to the United Arab Emirates, this article attempts to examine the broad institutional framework within which transnational migration is negotiated. The article focusses on the negotiating practices women adopt while moving between different legal systems within the institutional framework that defines their nature of migration. This a…
Moving between Kerala and Dubai
Gender, Illegality and Licitness Mobility across international borders as well as state attempts to curtail this are facts of life for women such as Seena, Suja, Mariyam and Hussaiba who have worked for up to twenty years as foreign domestic workers in the Gulf. They are part and parcel of the large number of impoverished women from Kerala who leave their native lands and arrive in Dubai. Some had first worked elsewhere – Hussaiba in Saudi Arabia…
Moving between Kerala and Dubai Women Domestic Workers, State Actors and the Misrecognition of Problems
Ways of Seeing’—Policy paradigms and unfree labour in India
This article traces the trajectory of different initiatives to address unfree labour and their impact on workers’ capacity to aspire to and exercise their rights in India. We attempt to understand the dimensions and effects of different ‘ways of seeing’ precarity and exploitation within the larger context of economic policies, social structures such as caste-based discrimination, gender-based violence, and state indifference. In a caste and gende…
The Blurred Boundaries of Migration
Based on an ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the lives of women domestic workers who have migrated from Kerala to the United Arab Emirates, this article attempts to examine the broad institutional framework within which transnational migration is negotiated. The article focusses on the negotiating practices women adopt while moving between different legal systems within the institutional framework that defines their nature of migration. This a…
Making things work, practically
Drawing on ethnography that involved in‐depth online interviews with parents of adult autistic individuals in India, this article focuses on the experiences of five interlocutors to examine the nuanced understanding of disability, family, and care in the context of COVID‐19 in India and, more broadly, in the realm of disability. Anchored in a feminist philosophical framework of care, the study addresses two pivotal questions. First, it explores h…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Domestic work (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Indian Economic and Social Development (2 works)