In Engaging in Narrative Inquiry, Second Edition, D. Jean Clandinin, a pioneer in narrative
research, updates her classic formulation on narrative inquiry, clarifying, extending, and …

In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially
representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based …

The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue
of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has …

In this article I explore marriage as a strategy of family migration among a transnational
community of middle‐class Jat Sikhs. Family reunification and status aspirations are …

The Encyclopedia of Hinduism contains over 900 entries reflecting recent advances in
scholarship which have raised new theoretical and methodological issues as well as …

The UK's on-going sex-selective abortion (SSA) controversy remains a major obstacle to the
liberalization of national abortion governance, and is an issue broadly attributed to a …

Women in South Asia have a biologically abnormal chance of mortality from conception until
their mid-thirties. This phenomenon (known as 'missing women') is related to son preference …

This paper examines the problematisation of sex-selective abortion (SSA) in UK
parliamentary debates on Fiona Bruce's Abortion (Sex-Selection) Bill 2014–15 and on the …

Recent demographic analysis of sex ratios at birth in the UK has signaled the issue of
“missing girls” in British Asian minority populations. This paper juxtaposes the processes of …

In the West, abandonment within the context of marriage is generally not considered a form
of violence against women. In the case of transnational marriages, abandonment of wives …