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Unravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and familiesThe Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of the H-4 dependent visa programs on women and men visa holders in Indian families in America. Comparing two distinct groups of Indian immigrant families —families of male high-tech workers and female nurses—Pallavi Banerjee reveals how visa policies that are legally gender and race neutral in fact have gendered and racialized ramifications for visa holders and their spouses. Drawing on interviews with fifty-five Indian couples, Banerjee highlights the experiences of high-skilled immigrants as they struggle to cope with visa laws, which forbid their spouses from working paid jobs. She examines how these unfair restrictions destabilize—if not completely dismantle—families, who often break under this marital, financial, and emotional stress. Banerjee shows us, through the eyes of immigrants themselves, how the visa process strips them of their rights, forcing them to depend on their spouses and the government in fundamentally challenging ways. The Opportunity Trap provides a critical look at our visa system, underscoring how it fails immigrant families.

East Indians --- Foreign workers, East Indian --- Professional employees --- Skilled labor --- Visas --- Social conditions. --- Asian migration. --- H-4 dependent visas. --- Indian skilled workers. --- Trumpian futures. --- acts of disruption. --- class and domestic work. --- compensatory Femininities. --- dependent Visa. --- devaluation. --- disciplining the Self. --- forced dependence. --- gender and migration. --- gendered division of labor. --- gendered migrations. --- global labor migration. --- governmentality. --- ideal Workers. --- immigrant Skilled-Workers. --- immigrant families. --- immigration policy reforms. --- intensive mothering. --- intersectionality. --- invisibility. --- legal entailments of visa categories. --- liminal Legality. --- middle-class parenting. --- model Minority. --- nursing. --- out-migration of tech workers and nurses. --- parenting while dependent. --- public discourse. --- racialization. --- reassertion of masculinities. --- recruitment process. --- resistance. --- standpoint dilemmas. --- state-imposed dependence. --- tech Work. --- temporary H-1B Visa. --- transcultural cultivation. --- visa regime. --- “Third-World” women.

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Our Voices, Our Histories' brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. 0This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women's lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. 0'Our Voices, Our Histories' showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women's and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories.

Asian American women --- Pacific Islander American women --- History. --- Social conditions. --- 1.5 generation. --- 1982 New York City’s garment workers’ strike. --- Adoptees. --- Angel Island Immigration Station Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). --- Asian American dance. --- Asian Americans in the U.S. South. --- Asian Migration. --- Assimilation. --- Chinatown Night Clubs. --- Chinese immigrant women. --- Chinese missions in the U.S. South. --- Civil Liberties Act of 1988. --- Coolie. --- Creation Narratives. --- Dancie Yett Wong. --- Diversity. --- Ethnic Groups. --- Filipino. --- Gender. --- Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907) Global. --- Global Dimensions. --- Hawai`i. --- Hawaiian Chiefesses. --- Hawaiian Culture. --- Hawaiian Diaspora. --- Hawaiian Well-being. --- Hawaiian goddesses. --- Hawaiian healing. --- Hawaiian monarchy. --- Hawaiian trusts. --- ILGWU. --- Immigration Laws. --- Indigenous Culture. --- Indigenous Island. --- Inez Lung. --- Japanese American. --- Jim Crow. --- Language. --- Mississippi Delta Chinese. --- Muslim ban. --- Native Hawaiian. --- New York City’s garment industry. --- Nisei women. --- Occupation. --- Picture Brides. --- Postwar. --- Refugee. --- Resistance. --- Samoanness. --- Southern Baptist Church in the U.S. South. --- Taiwanese American. --- Transnationalism. --- Transracial. --- U.S. Colonialism. --- U.S. Territory. --- U.S.-Japan relations. --- Ume Tsuda. --- World War II. --- Yona Abiko. --- ancestor. --- anti-Japanese movement. --- cheap labor. --- children’s education. --- class reproduction. --- ethics. --- garment workers. --- global restructuring. --- historical context. --- immigrant. --- immigration law. --- immigration. --- legendary or mythical past. --- life course. --- life history. --- marginalization. --- mass incarceration. --- mixed race identity. --- mixed race. --- non-working class. --- oral history. --- pan-Asian networks. --- precarious labor. --- public assistance. --- refugee camp. --- refugee family. --- refugee stories. --- resettlement. --- stereotypes. --- transnational families. --- transnational ties. --- unskilled laborers. --- wartime. --- woman. --- women’s higher education.