This document summarizes a PhD study about the resilience of deaf Indian migrant women in London. The study uses qualitative methods like interviews and visual methods to understand how the women navigate a new life in London, dealing with changes in environment, language, and systems. It profiles the backgrounds of 5 participants who came to London on spouse visas. The study explores the women's experiences with belonging, including adjusting to new household and community roles. It also examines the impact of the COVID pandemic in immobilizing the women and delaying their sense of belonging and participation in the city. Overall, the study shows how the women demonstrate resilience and agency in shaping their experiences amid structural influences.
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2. INTRODUCTION
• My PhD study emerged under MobileDeaf’s
overarching theme – deaf people on the move across
international borders (temporary and permanent)
• My study focuses on how deaf migrant Indian women
navigate through a new life in the new city – new
environment, new people, new language and new
system (freedom and constraints)
• Aim of this presentation is to share selected findings to
celebrate the resilience of these women
3. • London as a superdiverse city
• Under the political climates of Brexit
and hostile environment
• History of the UK – India relations
from the colonization era
(Commonwealth, post war etc)
• Third of the large Indian community in
the UK lives in London (Harrow
Brent)
• Research started during the COVID
pandemic
CONTEXT OF THE STUDY
5. PARTICIPANT
BACKGROUNDS
• All moved to London on spouse visas
• 3 got married in their early 30s (arrived in the UK 2014, 2018); 2 got
married in their early 20s (live in the UK for nearly 20 years)
• All except one are from middle class backgrounds ('middle class' not
a fixed category)
• All their husbands are deaf British citizens (three born in the UK, two
from overseas)
• Four from Mumbai and one from Kolkata
• Four have visited places outside of India before coming to the UK
6. EXPERIENCES OF
BELONGING
• Transition into a new (gendered) household and take up a new
role as a daughter in-law and wife (later a mother) - own
desire/dreams
• Interact with British deaf communities - dealing with negative
attitudes and adapt to different social rhythms and schedules.
• Process of participating in the labour market – experience
constraints e.g. course structure, interview process
• Their identities/subjectivities - what it means to be a deaf, Indian
and gendered person in the UK
7. CASE STUDY: VANDANA
• Experienced criticism from the deaf community – limited
interaction with the community
• Long working hours for 10 years - worked through two
pregnancies and had a short maternity leave – endurance and
acquired sense of personhood.
• Had to quit to become a full-time housewife - less time to interact
with deaf friends and became depressed. However…
• Interactions with parents of her sons’ classmates – given her
confidence, recognition and status.
• She views herself as a strong woman who “fight against all odds”
8. • The impact of the pandemic on the process of making home in
the city
• Delay in forming relationships with the deaf community and
entering the labour market – delay in inculcating a sense of
belonging in the city
• Immobile/being stuck in the city
• Timed out of everyday life
• Time to interact with people back home/s
• Tensions with husband’s family
COVID PANDEMIC
10. CONCLUSION
• Looking through these women’s narratives and the nuances of
their gendered experiences one can see how institutions and
structures shape people’s everyday practices and future
aspirations.
• The acts of agency by migrants show how they regain control of
their experience and their journey.
• Migration is a gendered process and these women have shared
narratives of their resilence and courage as they proceed in their
life course trajectories in London.
