Abandoned Women

Transnational Marriages and Gendered Legal Citizens

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5853844
AutoresAnupama Roy (0000-0001-7884-6469), Sundari Anitha (0000-0002-6918-3680), Harshita Yalamarty (0000-0002-8633-1286)
Ano2019
Volume34
Fascículo100
Páginas165-181
Data de publicação2019-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAustralian Feminist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1321-7568 • E-ISSN: 1465-3303
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08164649.2019.1644606
OpenAlexW2967060076
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências 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