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Since the mid-1980s, a number of Indian ladies novelists have enriched mainstream English literature with tales of educated, middle-class, Indian women migrating to and settling in North America. The novels assert that by migrating to North America, the protagonists had been able to find ‘freedom’. In this paper, I query whether or not worldwide migration essentially results in ‘freedom’ for this cohort of Indian ladies and argue that it their histories and experiences of subjugation and emancipation aren’t necessarily in binary opposition, and that there may be an area for multiplicity. Based on their altering power positions, the respondents have been positioned simultaneously on the centre and on the margins in their own properties, at work and on the places of socialisation.
It additionally highlights the translocal connections between house, work and urban dwelling in Vietnam and East London. Drawing upon members’ private stories, I examine their journeys … Read More