Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies ( IF 2.087 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 , DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2021.1978123 Atreyee Sen 1
Abstract
This article will analyze rural-urban migrant workers’ multiple journeys of financial secrecies, gendered solidarities and covert income-management through the use of smartphones and net-banking in the city. Using the narratives of informal domestic workers in Kolkata, a city in eastern India, I show how migrant women managed a shadow network of personal savings, free of surveillance from their rural kin, that was creatively positioned at the interface of modern digital technologies and traditional social relations. I develop the concept of ‘migra-monies’ to underline how such hidden cash flows within migration landscapes emboldened female workers to envision non-normative gendered subjectivities and economically secure fiscal futures.
中文翻译:
谎言经济:印度加尔各答的非正规收入、电话银行和女性移民工人
摘要
本文将通过在城市中使用智能手机和网上银行,分析城乡农民工在金融保密、性别团结和秘密收入管理方面的多重旅程。利用印度东部城市加尔各答的非正式家庭佣工的故事,我展示了移民妇女如何管理一个不受农村亲属监视的个人储蓄影子网络,该网络创造性地定位在现代数字技术和传统技术的交汇处社会关系。我提出了“移民资金”的概念,以强调移民环境中这种隐藏的现金流如何鼓励女性工人设想非规范的性别主体性和经济安全的财政未来。