Threading meaningful lives: Respectability, home businesses and identity negotiations among newly immigrant South Asian women

Identities

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 320-338

  Hewamanne, Sandya ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

home businesses; identity; newly immigrant South Asian women; respectability; selling culture

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER ROLE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; WOMENS STATUS;

SOUTH ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865204244     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.699879     Document Type: Article

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