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Barrett, James R. Ranganath, Nicole Therese 2015-09-25T22:23:46Z 2015-09-25T22:23:46Z 10000-01-01 2003 2003 As a social history, this study contends that marriage is crucial for understanding migration in the post-war era when family reunification became the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy. In particular, the migration experience of Indian women was profoundly mediated by marriage and the family, as the majority migrated to the U.S. as wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters. I also explore the greater socio-economic diversity and novel social networks among Indian immigrants created by family reunification laws. Chapters of the dissertation consider the significance of marriage in caste and family networks, popular culture, law, and the life histories of Indian immigrant women. I offer a new approach to the study of cultural change in diaspora as well as a new understanding of the complex relationship between gender, class, caste, regional, national, and transnational social ties. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T22:23:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3101953.pdf: 20790514 bytes, checksum: 89beeb636175d33ea9a186c9eed090b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 85932 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 365 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/84651 (MiAaPQ)AAI3101953 eng History, Asia, Australia and Oceania Wedding Women to Tradition: The Politics of Marriage in the Indian Diaspora, 1947--2002 text History History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.