TY - JOUR
T1 - Shifting arrangements
T2 - Indo-trinidadian women, globalization, and the restructuring of family life
AU - Grahame, Kamini Maraj
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful to Peter R. Grahame for his close reading of and helpful suggestions for this manuscript. I would also like to thank the women who welcomed me into their homes and let me share their stories, and to Fazeela Mollick and Kamlawatie Maraj for their help in locating participants. This research was supported in part by Pennsylvania State University, Capital College Research Council Grant.
PY - 2006/10/1
Y1 - 2006/10/1
N2 - This article focuses on the changing relationships between East-Indian daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in a developing society: Trinidad, West Indies. Changes in how families are structured are seen as active responses to processes of globalization. While these changes have provided younger women with opportunities to resist older arrangements, their responses have in turn created new problems that remain unresolved. I argue that these families' experiences of change are linked to complex relations that include increased access to education, changes in the village economy, and global media penetration, all of which are part of broader processes of modernization and globalization. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork as well as census data and economic, educational, and demographic changes since World War II.
AB - This article focuses on the changing relationships between East-Indian daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in a developing society: Trinidad, West Indies. Changes in how families are structured are seen as active responses to processes of globalization. While these changes have provided younger women with opportunities to resist older arrangements, their responses have in turn created new problems that remain unresolved. I argue that these families' experiences of change are linked to complex relations that include increased access to education, changes in the village economy, and global media penetration, all of which are part of broader processes of modernization and globalization. The study draws on ethnographic fieldwork as well as census data and economic, educational, and demographic changes since World War II.
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U2 - 10.1080/02732170600786059
DO - 10.1080/02732170600786059
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33746810549
VL - 26
SP - 425
EP - 452
JO - Sociological Spectrum
JF - Sociological Spectrum
SN - 0273-2173
IS - 5
ER -