In Intimacies of Violence, Nadine Shaanta Murshid demonstrates how transnational middle-class Bangladeshi women personally embody structural violence to shed light on the ways in which violence is produced, perpetuated, and resisted. Transnational Bangladeshi women are individuals who occupy space in both the United States and Bangladesh, living bilocating yet bordered lives. Murshid forwards four broad arguments. First, a transnational feminist approach documents the "shock of arrival" to provide an examination of how social locations and associated status impact the intimate economies in which women experience inequities related to love, sex, and desire. Second, drawing on theories from social work, transnational feminism, Bangladesh studies, and migration studies, the book shows how social norms produced at the familial level serve to link the structural and the intimate. Third, the book illustrates how nationalist narratives about Bangladesh's history of wartime rape inform women's construction of violence. Finally, the institutions of home, immigration, and the criminal legal system are implicated as sites of violence for transnational Bangladeshi women. As the first book to exclusively examine the private lives of transnational Bangladeshi women in the United States, Intimacies of Violence allows ... academics, policymakers, and practitioners who work with migrant communities and immigration policy to understand the complex ways in which immigrant lives are structured by social systems.

About the Author
Nadine Shaanta Murshid is Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, University at Buffalo. Over the last decade, her work has primarily examined the various ways in which violence is produced, maintained, and experienced in Bangladeshi communities. Her work, critical of the systems of oppression that produce the self-alienated, complex, and contradictory neoliberal subject, forwards an anti-carceral agenda.


Book Information
ISBN 9780197755839
Author Nadine Shaanta Murshid
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 617g
Dimensions(mm) 242mm * 167mm * 27mm