An Autoethnography on Women’s Migration and Trauma

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Research Article| April 01 2023 An Autoethnography on Women’s Migration and Trauma Sneha Samaddar Sneha Samaddar Sneha Samaddar is an assistant professor in the School of Cinema, Asian School of Media Studies, AAFT University. Sneha has a Doctorate in film studies: “Cinematic Representation of Partition: Trauma and Gender.” She specializes in film studies, gender studies, Partition literature, cinema and society, adaptation of films to text, film semiotics, and feminist research and theories. email: samaddarsneha1990@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar email: samaddarsneha1990@gmail.com Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (2): 287–291. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.287 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Sneha Samaddar; An Autoethnography on Women’s Migration and Trauma. Journal of Autoethnography 1 April 2023; 4 (2): 287–291. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.2.287 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search Loss of home and family exposes women, making them vulnerable and more accessible than men, to men. Reading about the Partition of India in August 1947, I realized how forced migrations led to panic and oppression. As a twenty-first-century, modern, independent woman, I find, unfortunately, that even after seventy years some aspects of this vulnerability continue to prevail in our society. Even after having the agency to decide and willingly migrate, the trauma of loss of home and family, vulnerability of the unknown, and distress associated with being the “other,” more specific to gender, runs parallel in the journeys of the modern researcher (me) and one of the women who endured the Partition—my grandmother. I have been a researcher for six years. To talk about my experiences and legacies, add my voice to literature, and to expand sociological understanding, I have chosen to employ autoethnography.1 I migrated as a... You do not currently have access to this content.