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Shifting gender perceptions of female Nepalese students in Brisbane, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Narayan Ghimire
Narayan Ghimire*
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Griffith University
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This article explores the changes in how Nepalese female students living in Brisbane, Australia, experience shifting expectations and perceptions of gender roles. It reviews a range of literature from migration studies, geography and humanities to investigate the interrelation between gender and migration, and the ways in which transforming gender relations among the Nepalese migrants in Australia might eventuate. Specifically, the article looks at how traditional gender roles are continued or discontinued by disclosing the lived experiences of a small cohort of Nepalese female students. A summary of qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations are used to highlight how their changing perspectives on traditional gender relations result from living in the changed socio-cultural settings of the host country, and the inherent challenges of implementing the changes in conventional interpretations of gender-based roles after returning to their home country.

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Queensland Review , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , December 2020 , pp. 166 - 180
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