An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India
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An Economy of Lies : Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India. / Sen, Atreyee.
I: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Bind 20, Nr. 2, 08.09.2022, s. 164-176.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - An Economy of Lies
T2 - Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India
AU - Sen, Atreyee
PY - 2022/9/8
Y1 - 2022/9/8
N2 - This article will analyze rural-urban migrant workers' multiple journeys of financial secrecies, gendered solidarities and covert income-management through the use of smartphones and net-banking in the city. Using the narratives of informal domestic workers in Kolkata, a city in eastern India, I show how migrant women managed a shadow network of personal savings, free of surveillance from their rural kin, that was creatively positioned at the interface of modern digital technologies and traditional social relations. I develop the concept of 'migra-monies' to underline how such hidden cash flows within migration landscapes emboldened female workers to envision non-normative gendered subjectivities and economically secure fiscal futures.
AB - This article will analyze rural-urban migrant workers' multiple journeys of financial secrecies, gendered solidarities and covert income-management through the use of smartphones and net-banking in the city. Using the narratives of informal domestic workers in Kolkata, a city in eastern India, I show how migrant women managed a shadow network of personal savings, free of surveillance from their rural kin, that was creatively positioned at the interface of modern digital technologies and traditional social relations. I develop the concept of 'migra-monies' to underline how such hidden cash flows within migration landscapes emboldened female workers to envision non-normative gendered subjectivities and economically secure fiscal futures.
KW - Gender
KW - digital saving
KW - migration
KW - urban slums
KW - informal labor
KW - MOBILE MONEY
KW - WOMEN
KW - COMMUNICATION
KW - NETWORKS
KW - GENDER
U2 - 10.1080/15562948.2021.1978123
DO - 10.1080/15562948.2021.1978123
M3 - Journal article
VL - 20
SP - 164
EP - 176
JO - Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
JF - Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
SN - 1556-2948
IS - 2
ER -
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