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Revisiting the Devyani Khobragade controversy: The value of domestic labor in the global south
Grover Shalini 이화여자대학교 아시아여성학센터 2017 Asian Journal of Women's Studies(AJWS) Vol.23 No.1
On December 13, 2013 the high-profile media coverage of Devyani Khobragade, the United States-based Indian diplomat, who was allegedly underpaying her maid, brought into sharp focus unequal employer-employee relations. This ‘Voices’ commentary directs us to the interstices of global inequalities, domestic labor, and care-giving between the genders. With the globalization of domestic labor, migrant care workers around the world face commonalities. However, in a time of global recession, privileged western expatriates relocating to destinations such as India, Singapore, China, and Dubai have access to cheap yet highly skilled domestic help. The latter phenomenon that has hitherto been under-contextualized raises contrastive differences in wage rates and the way domestic labor is ‘valued’ in the global North and South. Drawing upon anthropological fieldwork on the international expatriate community in India’s Capital city, race and class entitlements are accentuated in the context of global hierarchies.
GROVER, Shalini 이화여자대학교 아시아여성학센터 2011 Asian Journal of Women's Studies(AJWS) Vol.17 No.1
Low-caste women and men in New Delhi frequently remarry in their lifetimes. While one of the major stories about social change in modern India is that divorce is growing by leaps and bounds, for the urban poor in large cities remarriage remains foremost a practical necessity. For the lowest castes in India, the virtual absence of high- caste chastity norms pertaining to their conjugal lives has hitherto been a putative route for explaining why certain social groups are in a position to form liaisons and remarry so easily. This article seeks to foreground gender, structural constraints, and everyday deprivation as factors in understanding why remarriage is a widespread practice amongst the low-caste poor in a metropolitan setting. The ethnographic focus is on poor women’s marital trajectories and on how they robustly negotiate divorce and remarriage with male partners, counsellors, the state, and NGOs in their quotidian lives.