India, the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and the 1979 Virginity Testing Scandal

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Global History Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI:10.1017/s1740022823000098
Jinal Parekh, A. Datta
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This article looks at India’s complaint at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 1979 about the ‘virginity test’ performed on a migrant Indian woman at Heathrow. It examines the use of arguments about race and racial discrimination by India to compel Britain to discuss immigration on a bilateral basis. The article argues that the pivot to a race-based argument was deliberately patriarchal and India’s main concern in these negotiations was the impending British Nationality Act of 1981, which would prevent men from moving to Britain in search of an overseas wife. Using the virginity testing scandal, the article re-examines the changing role of discourses about race in postcolonial institutions of global governance.
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印度、联合国人权委员会和1979年的处女检验丑闻
这篇文章关注的是印度在1979年向联合国人权委员会投诉希思罗机场对一名印度移民妇女进行“处女测试”。它考察了印度利用关于种族和种族歧视的争论迫使英国在双边基础上讨论移民问题。这篇文章认为,以种族为基础的论点的核心是故意的父权制,而印度在这些谈判中主要担心的是即将出台的1981年《英国国籍法案》,该法案将阻止男性移居英国寻找海外妻子。本文以童贞测试丑闻为例,重新审视了种族话语在后殖民时期全球治理机构中不断变化的角色。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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