- Title
- Between hypervisible and invisible: Modi, marriage and migrant women in Australian media
- Creator
- Thapliyal, Nisha
- Relation
- Asian Women, Identity and Migration: Experiences of Transnational Women of Indian Origin/Heritage p. 202-216
- Relation
- Routledge Studies in Asia Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003083085
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- I am a working-class academic who has migrated over two decades to two multicultural settler nations – first the United States and then Australia. However, as a member of a minority and diaspora community within India, making self and home was complicated long before I migrated outside India. In this chapter, I reflect on two media spectacles involving male and female Indian migrants in Australian media. The first media encounter consists of 2014 news coverage of a four-day visit to Australia by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The second encounter involves The Wedding Race – an observational documentary about arranged marriage by Indian migrants to Australia. Drawing on transnational Women of Colour (WoC) feminist scholarship, I show how these representations constituted gendered, raced and classed forms of hypervisibility and invisibility for Indian migrants. I seek to interrupt and transform how corporate medias essentialise, commodify and relativise difference in a multicultural settler nation like Australia. In doing so, I present my understanding of making home and self as situated acts of refusal and resistance.
- Subject
- Modi; marriage; migrant women; Australian media
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1439726
- Identifier
- uon:41011
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780367516819
- Language
- eng
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