From the vantage point of my earlier research on women's agency in terms of their creative capabilities in patrilineal India I now attempt to work out the perspectives to study transmigrant women's agency through interstices of hierarchies in the domestic arena as well as in racially differentiated social settings. Their strategies for coping with the cost and consequences of the prevailing features of Indian diaspora lead me to argue that women's migration entails a complex process of transcreation, which refers to negotiating one's circumstances while developing new ways of being and becoming. Second, the study of transmigrant women's ability to make decisions in the context of global processes has brought forward several approaches which need a critical gaze in terms of methodological issues and I have looked critically, in terms of epistemological bearing, at my own and other scholars' positions on the unstable play of power in social and cultural relations in the context of women's agency in settings of the transnational world. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

aspirations marriage Indian Diaspora Transnational family Transcreation Women's agency

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