Citation

Anitha S, Roy A, Yalamarty H. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(7): 747-774.

Affiliation

York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801217720693

PMID

29332514

Abstract

Based on life history narratives of 57 women in India and interviews with 21 practitioners, we document the neglect, abuse, and instrumental deprivation of women's rights through the process of transnational abandonment. While gendered local sociocultural milieus and economic norms contribute to these harms, they are crucially enabled and sustained by transnational formal-legal frameworks. Widening the explanatory lens for understanding domestic violence beyond the family and community, we argue that in a globalized world, (inter)state policies serve to construct these women as a subordinate category of citizens-"disposable women"-who can be abused and abandoned with impunity.

Language: en

Keywords

disposable women; domestic violence in India; gendered citizenship; intersectionality; migration; transnational abandonment of wives