Margaret Abraham

Curriculum Vitae: Publications

Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship. (co-edited) Margaret Abraham (lead editor), Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Maratou-Alipranti, Evangelia Tastsoglou Ashgate Publishing Ltd. Aldenshot, Hampshire, UK. 2010.

Globalization, Work and Citizenship: The Call Centre Industry in India. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.. Aldenshot, Hampshire, UK.2010.

“Rethinking Citizenship with Women in Focus”(co-authored chapter ) in Contours of Citizenship: Women, Diversity and Practices of Citizenship edited by Margaret Abraham, Esther Ngan-ling Chow, Laura Maratou-Alipranti, Evangelia Tastsoglou (Ed.) Aldenshot, Hampshire: 2010

“Whose Backyard? Boundary Making in NIMBY Opposition to Immigrant Services.” (co-authored) Social Justice 2009.

“Globalization and the Call Center Industry”, Review Essay in International Sociology Review of Book, 2008.

“Ethnicity and Marginality: A Study of Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel” Indian Diaspora in West Asia: A Reader ed. Prakash C. Jain. Manohar Publishers: New Delhi 2007 (Reprint)

“Infanticide” Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, Macmillan Library Reference 2006.

“Model Minority and Marital Violence: South Asian Immigrants in the United States” Chapter in Cultural Psychology of Immigrants. Editor, Ram Mahalingam. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Publishers. 2006.

"Domestic Violence and the Indian Diaspora in the United States." Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 12 No. 2-3, 2005, pp. 427-451.

South Asian Immigrant Women's HIV/AIDS Related Issues: An Exploratory Study of New York City. (Co-authored with Roopa Chakkappan and Sung Won Park). Published by APICHA, 2005, (www.apicha.org).

"Fighting Back: Abused South Asian Women's Strategies of Resistance." Chapter in volume edited by Natalie Sokoloff and Christine Pratt. Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender and Culture. Rutgers University Press. 2005, pp. 253-271.

"Addressing Domestic Violence and the South Asian Community in the United States." Intersection and Divergences: Contemporary Asian American Communities, edited by Rick Bonus and Linda Trinh Vo. Temple University Press, Summer 2002, pp. 191-201.

"Immigrant Status and Marital Violence," Women and the Politics of Violence. Editor, Taisha Abraham, New Delhi: Shakti Books, 2002, pp. 220-246.

"Femicide," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies: 2001, (http://www.routledge-ny.com/women).

"Infanticide," Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women's Studies: 2001, (http://www.routledge-ny.com/women).

Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among South Asians in the U.S. Rutgers University Press: New Brunswick New Jersey: June 2000.

"Reflections on Doing Research." Comments in Asian Mode 1999-2000 Issue 2, March 2000, pp. 5-7.

"Sexual Abuse in South Asian Immigrant Marriages." Violence Against Women Vol. 5, No. 6, 1999, pp. 591-618.

"Isolation as a Social Factor in Marital Violence: The South Asian Immigrant Experience" Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, vol.9, No.3, 2000, pp. 221-236.

"Speaking the Unspeakable: Marital Violence Among the South Asian Community in the United States." Indian Journal of Gender Studies vol.5 No.2 Aug-Dec.1998.

"Marital Violence and Alienation among South Asian Immigrant Women in the United States." Designs on Alienation edited by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman. Finland:Sophi Press. August, 1998, pp. 175-196.

"Ethnicity, Gender, and Marital Violence: South Asian Women's Organizations in the United States." Gender & Society Vol.9 No.4, August 1995, pp. 450-468.

"Ethnicity and Marginality: Indian Jewish Immigrants in Israel", South Asian Bulletin, Vol.XV No:1,1995, pp. 108-123.

"From India to Israel: A Sociological Analysis of Migration Factors Among Indian Jews" Population Review Vol.39 No:1 & 2. Nov. 1995, pp. 74-87.

"Marginality and Disintegration of Community Identity Among the Jews of India". Studies of Jewish Identity edited by Nathan Katz, published by Manohar: New Delhi. Manohar. 1994, pp. 175-199.

"The Cochin Jews of India: A Socio-Historical Study." in The Asian Culture: Tradition and Diaspora. Selected Conference Proceedings, York College, CUNY. 1994, pp. 24-37.

"Marital Violence in Developing Countries." Women and Development - by NOW, India No.1, 1992, pp. 37-40.

"The Normative and the Factual: An Analysis of Emigration Factors of the Jews of India." Jewish Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, June 1991, pp. 5-19.

"Ethnic Identity and Marginality Among Indian Jews in Contemporary India." Ethnic Groups, Vol. 9, March 1991, pp. 32-60.