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Skilled immigrant women make up almost 50% of the migrant population worldwide. However, until the last decade, skilled migration was considered a male-driven venture, limiting scholarly examination of skilled immigrant women in workplaces. In 2021, skilled immigrant women made up 47.4% of the skilled migrant population of Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021). Yet, despite their significant representation in the population, there is a dearth of studies that focus on the identity-rela...

Purpose: How do females with multiple sources of identity deal with intersectional identity tensions and perceived lack of access to social power? The study focuses on how social relationships form and develop in masculinised settings between construction workers and a petite female researcher through perceived notions of equality and inequality. Through autoethnographic tales, the study examines how an academic home comer navigates between conflicting professional and cultural identities, in th...

Abstract Transpeople in India forge identities at the confluence of contradictory social forces. Interviews conducted in the state of Kerala suggest that the experience of transphobic stigma results in self-employed transpeople being abjectified. Social abjectification, in turn, triggers their identity work within liminal social spaces located between the everyday lifeworld and postcolonial legal institutions. Through this work, the participants in this study navigated the contradictions betwee...