Margaret Abraham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Abraham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Abraham |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-9191-2675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Persistence and change: Collaborative, conceptual, and contextual global understandings of gender-based and intersectional violence
This special issue brings together scholars working across diverse contexts whose work helps to advance the concept of a contextual global sociology of gender-based and intersectional violence. Building on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and social justice traditions, the collection highlights both the persistence of violence and the possibilities for transformative change. The concept of contextual global sociology emphasises the importanc…
Immigrant women, domestic and family violence and the state: A contextual global analysis of the United States and Australia
Researchers, activists, community organizations, and other stakeholders have worked across the globe to ensure that the problem of domestic and family violence remains a public issue. Using a contextual global approach, this article examines the framing of domestic and family violence in the United States and Australia, focusing on the critical issue of citizenship status. We draw attention to immigration policies and processes and the types of f…
Remembering Michael Burawoy (1947-2025)
Contours of Citizenship
Power, violence, and justice: Reflections, responses and responsibilities: Presidential Address – XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15, 2018
Interview with the president of ISA Professor Margaret Abraham
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
Transforming place and belonging through action research, community practice, and public policy: Comparing responses to Nimbyism
While solidifying class inequalities on a transnational basis, corporate globalization often disrupts power regimes locally. Such disruptions can generate site-specific contention across social differences that solidify the physical marginalization or exclusion of less powerful groups at the local level. In the United States one form of local contention that results from corporate globalization is strong, organized opposition to the presence of m…
Making a difference: Linking research and action in practice, pedagogy, and policy for social justice: Introduction
The origins and chronology of linking research and action are complex and cannot be attributed to any single discipline or any part of the world. People within and outside academe have linked research and action. In this introductory article, we begin by briefly tracing the methodological background to linking research and action, focusing particularly on action research, participatory research, and feminist research in order to situate the resea…
Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship
Contents: Rethinking citizenship with women in focus, Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Maratou-Alipranti and Evangelia Tastsoglou Less preferred workers and citizens in the making: the case of Greek domestic workers in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, Evangelia Tastsoglou Globalization, work and citizenship: the call centre industry in India, Margaret Abraham Female ethnic entrepreneurship in Spain: the creation of a model for the ana…
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women
Globalization and the Call Center Industry
The call center industry is one of the most rapidly growing areas of work globally. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to studying call centers, the book and report reviewed here provide sociological insights on the process of globalization and the transformation of work and labor relations. Issues addressed include resource strategies, managers and management, jobs and job skills, women's careers in call centers, worker …
Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States
The profile of the current Asian Indian population in the United States is largely an outcome of immigration policies and practices. For most immigrants, including Asian Indians, gender, class and ethnic relations get reshaped as women and men adapt to life in a foreign country. This article discusses domestic violence among the Indian diaspora in the United States with insights from the staff of the community-based women's organisation, Sakhi fo…
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship
Battered Women in Korean Immigrant Families: The Silent Scream (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 1, February 2001
Sexual Abuse in South Asian Immigrant Marriages
This article focuses on a discussion of some of the norms around sexuality and their implications for sexual abuse of South Asian immigrant women. Based on the narratives of abused South Asian immigrant women, it explains how women define and understand their own experiences of sexual abuse. The article examines three forms of sexual abuse: (a) marital rape and sexual assault, (b) sexual control through manipulation of reproductive rights, and (c…
Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence against South Asian Immigrant Women in the United States
Life Lines: Community, Family and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants
Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community - Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan are…
Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel
Research Article| May 01 1995 Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel Margaret Abraham Margaret Abraham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 108–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-108 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Margaret Abraham; Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study …
Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States
Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Violence: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States
Based on a two-stage questionnaire with six South Asian organizations that focus on South Asian women, this article examines the factors that determined the creation of such organizations. Through an analysis of their organizational ideology, structure, goals, and strategies, the article demonstrates their relevance and the instrumental role they play in shifting marital violence among South Asians in the United States from a 'private problem' to…
Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence against South Asian Immigrant Women in the United States
Sexual Abuse in South Asian Immigrant Marriages
This article focuses on a discussion of some of the norms around sexuality and their implications for sexual abuse of South Asian immigrant women. Based on the narratives of abused South Asian immigrant women, it explains how women define and understand their own experiences of sexual abuse. The article examines three forms of sexual abuse: (a) marital rape and sexual assault, (b) sexual control through manipulation of reproductive rights, and (c…
Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States
The profile of the current Asian Indian population in the United States is largely an outcome of immigration policies and practices. For most immigrants, including Asian Indians, gender, class and ethnic relations get reshaped as women and men adapt to life in a foreign country. This article discusses domestic violence among the Indian diaspora in the United States with insights from the staff of the community-based women's organisation, Sakhi fo…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Violence: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States
Based on a two-stage questionnaire with six South Asian organizations that focus on South Asian women, this article examines the factors that determined the creation of such organizations. Through an analysis of their organizational ideology, structure, goals, and strategies, the article demonstrates their relevance and the instrumental role they play in shifting marital violence among South Asians in the United States from a 'private problem' to…
Making a difference: Linking research and action in practice, pedagogy, and policy for social justice: Introduction
The origins and chronology of linking research and action are complex and cannot be attributed to any single discipline or any part of the world. People within and outside academe have linked research and action. In this introductory article, we begin by briefly tracing the methodological background to linking research and action, focusing particularly on action research, participatory research, and feminist research in order to situate the resea…
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship
Power, violence, and justice: Reflections, responses and responsibilities: Presidential Address – XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15, 2018
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women
Immigrant women, domestic and family violence and the state: A contextual global analysis of the United States and Australia
Researchers, activists, community organizations, and other stakeholders have worked across the globe to ensure that the problem of domestic and family violence remains a public issue. Using a contextual global approach, this article examines the framing of domestic and family violence in the United States and Australia, focusing on the critical issue of citizenship status. We draw attention to immigration policies and processes and the types of f…
Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel
Research Article| May 01 1995 Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel Margaret Abraham Margaret Abraham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (1): 108–123. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-1-108 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Margaret Abraham; Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study …
Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States
Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Violence: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States
Based on a two-stage questionnaire with six South Asian organizations that focus on South Asian women, this article examines the factors that determined the creation of such organizations. Through an analysis of their organizational ideology, structure, goals, and strategies, the article demonstrates their relevance and the instrumental role they play in shifting marital violence among South Asians in the United States from a 'private problem' to…
Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence against South Asian Immigrant Women in the United States
Life Lines: Community, Family and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants
Asian Indians figure prominently among the educated, middle class subset of contemporary immigrants. They move quickly into residences, jobs, and lifestyles that provide little opportunity with fellow migrants, yet they continue to see themselves as a distinctive community within contemporary American society. In Life Lines Bacon chronicles the creation of a community - Indian-born parents and their children living in the Chicago metropolitan are…
Sexual Abuse in South Asian Immigrant Marriages
This article focuses on a discussion of some of the norms around sexuality and their implications for sexual abuse of South Asian immigrant women. Based on the narratives of abused South Asian immigrant women, it explains how women define and understand their own experiences of sexual abuse. The article examines three forms of sexual abuse: (a) marital rape and sexual assault, (b) sexual control through manipulation of reproductive rights, and (c…
Battered Women in Korean Immigrant Families: The Silent Scream (review)
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 4, Number 1, February 2001
Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States
The profile of the current Asian Indian population in the United States is largely an outcome of immigration policies and practices. For most immigrants, including Asian Indians, gender, class and ethnic relations get reshaped as women and men adapt to life in a foreign country. This article discusses domestic violence among the Indian diaspora in the United States with insights from the staff of the community-based women's organisation, Sakhi fo…
Ethnic Routes to Becoming American: Indian Immigrants and the Cultures of Citizenship
Globalization and the Call Center Industry
The call center industry is one of the most rapidly growing areas of work globally. Drawing upon a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to studying call centers, the book and report reviewed here provide sociological insights on the process of globalization and the transformation of work and labor relations. Issues addressed include resource strategies, managers and management, jobs and job skills, women's careers in call centers, worker …
Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship
Contents: Rethinking citizenship with women in focus, Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Maratou-Alipranti and Evangelia Tastsoglou Less preferred workers and citizens in the making: the case of Greek domestic workers in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, Evangelia Tastsoglou Globalization, work and citizenship: the call centre industry in India, Margaret Abraham Female ethnic entrepreneurship in Spain: the creation of a model for the ana…
Restorative Justice and Violence Against Women
Transforming place and belonging through action research, community practice, and public policy: Comparing responses to Nimbyism
While solidifying class inequalities on a transnational basis, corporate globalization often disrupts power regimes locally. Such disruptions can generate site-specific contention across social differences that solidify the physical marginalization or exclusion of less powerful groups at the local level. In the United States one form of local contention that results from corporate globalization is strong, organized opposition to the presence of m…
Making a difference: Linking research and action in practice, pedagogy, and policy for social justice: Introduction
The origins and chronology of linking research and action are complex and cannot be attributed to any single discipline or any part of the world. People within and outside academe have linked research and action. In this introductory article, we begin by briefly tracing the methodological background to linking research and action, focusing particularly on action research, participatory research, and feminist research in order to situate the resea…
Addressing domestic violence in Canada and the United States: The uneasy co-habitation of women and the state
Feminist sociologists and activists have drawn attention to how violence against women is linked to structural and cultural factors that subordinate women, mainly intersecting inequalities and limited rights. Mobilization by the Battered Women's and Anti-Violence Movements, media attention, legislation, and policy have increased awareness and support to address violence against women. However, activists and researchers have also critiqued the pro…
Interrogating gender, violence, and the state in national and transnational contexts: Framing the issues
In order to situate this monograph issue this introductory article starts with a brief, selective, and global overview of violence against women in diverse contexts, followed by the editors' own approach on violence against women and the state. Focusing on cross-cutting themes, the introduction presents and discusses the articles included in this monograph, demonstrating the role of the state in addressing sexual violence and domestic or intimate…
Interview with the president of ISA Professor Margaret Abraham
Power, violence, and justice: Reflections, responses and responsibilities: Presidential Address – XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 15, 2018
Contours of Citizenship
Remembering Michael Burawoy (1947-2025)
Persistence and change: Collaborative, conceptual, and contextual global understandings of gender-based and intersectional violence
This special issue brings together scholars working across diverse contexts whose work helps to advance the concept of a contextual global sociology of gender-based and intersectional violence. Building on feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and social justice traditions, the collection highlights both the persistence of violence and the possibilities for transformative change. The concept of contextual global sociology emphasises the importanc…
Immigrant women, domestic and family violence and the state: A contextual global analysis of the United States and Australia
Researchers, activists, community organizations, and other stakeholders have worked across the globe to ensure that the problem of domestic and family violence remains a public issue. Using a contextual global approach, this article examines the framing of domestic and family violence in the United States and Australia, focusing on the critical issue of citizenship status. We draw attention to immigration policies and processes and the types of f…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (11 works) · Immigration (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Domestic violence (5 works)