An Economy of Lies: Informal Income, Phone-Banking and Female Migrant Workers in Kolkata, India
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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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
Vol/bind | 20 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 164-176 |
Antal sider | 13 |
ISSN | 1556-2948 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 8 sep. 2022 |
ID: 304365949