Merit and permission: gender, education and migration in western India.
This paper presents a gendered infrastructural perspective on internal education migration in India. It demonstrates the power of merit to spur female agency, rekindle failed aspirations and establish migration flows despite family reluctance. The paper analyzes interviews conducted with 29 young wo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 5; pp. 1413 - 1431 |
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