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Global and Asian Perspectives on International MigrationReviewing Theories of Gender and Migration: Perspectives from Europe and North America

Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration: Reviewing Theories of Gender and... [The chapter reviews theoretical approaches to the study of women, gender and migration in Europe and North America since the 1970s, and in particular, the continuities and new directions that have developed in the past two decades. In this latter period, this literature increasingly engaged with and sought to engender concepts of globalization and transnationalism. Gender too was incorporated as an analytical category in our understanding of the processes and different spatio-temporal outcomes of migration. The chapter critically examines some of the concepts that have come to dominate the literature and highlights some of the absences and exclusions in their analyses. The global chains of care, for example, derived from empirical studies of Asian female migration to Europe and North America, served as an explanation of the international division of reproductive labor between the global South and North. Engendering transnationalism developed a framework based on the notion of gendered geographies of power highlighting diversities of social locations derived from intersecting hierarchies of gender, ethnicity/race/nationality, class and sexuality. The movement between two places and societies has raised the issue of changing gender ideologies and relations which could be studied through a framework of changing gender orders. However, the chapter concludes that despite the advances in theoretical analyses, the growing interest in migration, change and social transformation has yet to incorporate the gender dimension.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Global and Asian Perspectives on International MigrationReviewing Theories of Gender and Migration: Perspectives from Europe and North America

Part of the Global Migration Issues Book Series (volume 4)
Editors: Battistella, Graziano
Kofman, Eleonore
Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration — Sep 13, 2014
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
ISBN
978-3-319-08316-2
Pages
119 –137
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-08317-9_6
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Abstract

[The chapter reviews theoretical approaches to the study of women, gender and migration in Europe and North America since the 1970s, and in particular, the continuities and new directions that have developed in the past two decades. In this latter period, this literature increasingly engaged with and sought to engender concepts of globalization and transnationalism. Gender too was incorporated as an analytical category in our understanding of the processes and different spatio-temporal outcomes of migration. The chapter critically examines some of the concepts that have come to dominate the literature and highlights some of the absences and exclusions in their analyses. The global chains of care, for example, derived from empirical studies of Asian female migration to Europe and North America, served as an explanation of the international division of reproductive labor between the global South and North. Engendering transnationalism developed a framework based on the notion of gendered geographies of power highlighting diversities of social locations derived from intersecting hierarchies of gender, ethnicity/race/nationality, class and sexuality. The movement between two places and societies has raised the issue of changing gender ideologies and relations which could be studied through a framework of changing gender orders. However, the chapter concludes that despite the advances in theoretical analyses, the growing interest in migration, change and social transformation has yet to incorporate the gender dimension.]

Published: Sep 13, 2014

Keywords: Labor Migration; Domestic Work; Migrant Woman; Gender Ideology; Family Migration

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