The Opportunity Trap
High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19974834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pallavi Banerjee (0000-0003-4317-3756) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The Opportunity Trap (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | New York University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.18574/nyu/9781479860821.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4293099819 |
| ISBN | 9781479860821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Unravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and families The Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of the H-4 dependent visa programs on women and men visa holders in Indian families in America. Comparing two distinct groups of Indian immigrant families —families of male high-tech workers and female nurses—Pallavi Banerjee reveals how visa policies that are legally gender and race neutral in fact have gendered and racialized ramifications for visa holders and their spouses. Drawing on interviews with fifty-five Indian couples, Banerjee highlights the experiences of high-skilled immigrants as they struggle to cope with visa laws, which forbid their spouses from working paid jobs. She examines how these unfair restrictions destabilize—if not completely dismantle—families, who often break under this marital, financial, and emotional stress. Banerjee shows us, through the eyes of immigrants themselves, how the visa process strips them of their rights, forcing them to depend on their spouses and the government in fundamentally challenging ways. The Opportunity Trap provides a critical look at our visa system, underscoring how it fails immigrant families
Government (linguistics) · Immigration · Political science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
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The Bureaucratic Waiting Tolls
Doing Gender, Undoing Race
Race, Gender, and Violence
Unionizing High Tech
The Organization of Networking and Gender Inequality in the New Economy
A sociology of entrapment
The re-domestication of high-skilled immigrant women
Presumed identities perceived difference
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |