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Professional Migrant Women Decentring Otherness: A Transnational Perspective
Author(s) -
Pio Edwina,
Essers Caroline
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.12003
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , articulation (sociology) , scholarship , gender studies , sociology , power (physics) , ethnic group , perspective (graphical) , caste , narrative , space (punctuation) , political science , social science , anthropology , politics , law , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science
Embraced by their ethnicity and gender many migrant women have negotiated their own spaces in the host country. Yet, much of the literature on migrant women focuses on those who are struggling to make ends meet with low levels of education and how this defines the construction of the Other. We contribute to the limited scholarship in management research on professional migrant women by illustrating how transnational processes play out in the lived experience of professional migrant I ndian women in N ew Z ealand, and how they invoke agency in decentring Otherness. This qualitative study foregrounds the navigation of asymmetrical power relations and the strategic deployment of ethnicity, education and caste affiliation, when confronted with processes of exclusion in the labour market. We argue for the need to highlight narratives of professional migrant women which reflect the agency and articulation of their voices, thus reworking notions of the Other in transnational space.