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dc.contributor.authorSabur, Seuty
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-31T03:43:17Z
dc.date.available2016-08-31T03:43:17Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-24
dc.identifier.citationSabur, S. (2014). Marital Mobility in the Bangladeshi Middle Class: Matchmaking Strategies and Transnational Networks. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 37(4), 586–604. http://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2014.954757en_US
dc.identifier.issn1479-0270
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10361/6266
dc.descriptionThis article was published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies [© 2014 Taylor & Francis Online] and the definite version is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2014.954757 The article website is at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00856401.2014.954757?journalCode=csas20en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I take marriage as the point of entry for exploring social alliances amongst an affluent cluster of the Bangladeshi middle class. Using semi-structured interviews, biographies, family histories, intergenerational data, matrimonial biodata, chat histories, group discussions and blogs, I traced marital genealogies from Bangladesh to Britain in order to understand the strength of their transnational network. I argue that homogamy has become instrumental for this class in consolidating its power as new networks are forged through marriage and in which women play a significant role. These alliances result in the conflation of different kinds of capital, generating a convergence of influence and access among individuals that transcends national boundaries, reconfiguring the group as a cosmopolitan class. This provides a novel perspective on how Bangladeshi women of this class exercise power in marital negotiations while navigating normative practices and patriarchal structures.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher© 2014 Taylor & Francis Onlineen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2014.954757
dc.subjectBangladeshi middle classen_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.subjectHomogamyen_US
dc.subjectDiasporaen_US
dc.subjectMobilityen_US
dc.subjectKinshipen_US
dc.titleMarital mobility in the Bangladeshi middle class: matchmaking strategies and transnational networksen_US
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