Gender And Migration In Historical Perspective

Author : Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030995546

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Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective by Beatrice Zucca Micheletto Pdf

This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women, men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law, labour and the household economy, and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach, tackling various types of migration (domestic and temporary movements, long-distance and international migration, temporary/seasonal mobility) and arguing that different migration phenomena can be observed and understood by posing common questions to different contexts. Migration patterns are shown to be multifaceted and stratified phenomena, resulting from a range of entangled economic, cultural and social factors. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies.

Author : Marlou Schrover
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789089640475

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Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective by Marlou Schrover Pdf

This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective.

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134586639

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Women, Gender and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience of migration, especially in long distance, transnational moves. They examine the extent to which labour migration is a social and strategic decision for women.

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Minority women
ISBN : OCLC:767757066

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Women, Gender, and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

Author : Ann Katherine Isaacs
Publisher : Edizioni Plus
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9788884924988

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Immigration and Emigration in Historical Perspective by Ann Katherine Isaacs Pdf

Author : Katharine M. Donato,Donna Gabaccia
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610448475

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Gender and International Migration by Katharine M. Donato,Donna Gabaccia Pdf

In 2006, the United Nations reported on the “feminization” of migration, noting that the number of female migrants had doubled over the last five decades. Likewise, global awareness of issues like human trafficking and the exploitation of immigrant domestic workers has increased attention to the gender makeup of migrants. But are women really more likely to migrate today than they were in earlier times? In Gender and International Migration, sociologist and demographer Katharine Donato and historian Donna Gabaccia evaluate the historical evidence to show that women have been a significant part of migration flows for centuries. The first scholarly analysis of gender and migration over the centuries, Gender and International Migration demonstrates that variation in the gender composition of migration reflect not only the movements of women relative to men, but larger shifts in immigration policies and gender relations in the changing global economy. While most research has focused on women migrants after 1960, Donato and Gabaccia begin their analysis with the fifteenth century, when European colonization and the transatlantic slave trade led to large-scale forced migration, including the transport of prisoners and indentured servants to the Americas and Australia from Africa and Europe. Contrary to the popular conception that most of these migrants were male, the authors show that a significant portion were women. The gender composition of migrants was driven by regional labor markets and local beliefs of the sending countries. For example, while coastal ports of western Africa traded mostly male slaves to Europeans, most slaves exiting east Africa for the Middle East were women due to this region’s demand for female reproductive labor. Donato and Gabaccia show how the changing immigration policies of receiving countries affect the gender composition of global migration. Nineteenth-century immigration restrictions based on race, such as the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States, limited male labor migration. But as these policies were replaced by regulated migration based on categories such as employment and marriage, the balance of men and women became more equal – both in large immigrant-receiving nations such as the United States, Canada, and Israel, and in nations with small immigrant populations such as South Africa, the Philippines, and Argentina. The gender composition of today’s migrants reflects a much stronger demand for female labor than in the past. The authors conclude that gender imbalance in migration is most likely to occur when coercive systems of labor recruitment exist, whether in the slave trade of the early modern era or in recent guest-worker programs. Using methods and insights from history, gender studies, demography, and other social sciences, Gender and International Migration shows that feminization is better characterized as a gradual and ongoing shift toward gender balance in migrant populations worldwide. This groundbreaking demographic and historical analysis provides an important foundation for future migration research.

Author : Dr Elisa Olivito
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781472455772

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Gender and Migration in Italy by Dr Elisa Olivito Pdf

Recent migratory flows to Europe have brought about considerable changes in many countries. Italy in particular offers a unique point of view, since it is possible to observe not only the way migration has changed specific features of the country, but also how it is intertwined with gender relations. Considering both the type of migration that has affected Italy and the consequent measures adopted by the Government, a variety of distinctive elements may be seen. By providing a broad and more complete picture of the Italian perspective on gender and migration, this book makes a valuable contribution to the wider debate. The contributions consider the problematic linkage between gender and migration, as well as analyse particular aspects including Italian colonial past, domestic work, self-determination, access to social services, second-generation migrant women, family law, multiculturalism and religious symbols. Taking an empirical and theoretical approach, the volume underlines both the multifaceted problems affecting migrant women in Italy and the way in which questions raised in other countries are introduced and redefined by Italian scholarship. The book presents a valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers working in the areas of migration and gender studies.

Author : Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462701632

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Gender and Migration by Christiane Timmerman,Maria Lucinda Fonseca,Lore Van Praag,Sónia Pereira Pdf

The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migrationgives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.

Author : Marlou Schrover,Eileen Yeo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 0415807158

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Gender, Migration, and the Public Sphere, 1850-2005 by Marlou Schrover,Eileen Yeo Pdf

Exploring theories of difference in labour market participation, network formation & the immigrant organising process, on belonging & diaspora, & a theory of 'vulnerability, this book looks critically at two centuries of the migration experience from the perspectives of women & men separately & together.

Author : Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319550862

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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care by Sonya Michel,Ito Peng Pdf

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.

Author : Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319657837

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Gender and Mobility in Africa by Kalpana Hiralal,Zaheera Jinnah Pdf

This volume examines gender and mobility in Africa though the central themes of borders, bodies and identity. It explores perceptions and engagements around ‘borders’; the ways in which ‘bodies’ and women’s bodies in particular, shape and are affected by mobility, and the making and reproduction of actual and perceived ‘boundaries’; in relation to gender norms and gendered identify. Over fourteen original chapters it makes revealing contributions to the field of migration and gender studies. Combining historical and contemporary perspectives on mobility in Africa, this project contextualises migration within a broad historical framework, creating a conceptual and narrative framework that resists post-colonial boundaries of thought on the subject matter. This multidisciplinary work uses divergent methodologies including ethnography, archival data collection, life histories and narratives and multi-country survey level data and engages with a range of conceptual frameworks to examine the complex forms and outcomes of mobility on the continent today. Contributions include a range of case studies from across the continent, which relate either conceptually or methodologically to the central question of gender identity and relations within migratory frameworks in Africa. This book will appeal to researchers and scholars of politics, history, anthropology, sociology and international relations.

Author : Ermira Danaj
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030920920

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Women, Migration and Gendered Experiences by Ermira Danaj Pdf

This open access book focuses on Albanian internal and international female migration and places gender at the heart of postsocialist transformation. It explores the vulnerabilities that arise for female citizens from the contradictory policies produced by the Albanian state. By illuminating the intersection of gender and migration, it shows how Albanian women are likely to embed themselves in complex social relations and migration trajectories. By focusing on various cases – internal, international, return, economic and student female migrants – the book underlines that migration does not follow any kind of evolutionary development, according to which women go from 'traditional’ to ‘modern' gender relations. By providing a compelling account on the complex negotiations and tactics women employ to deal with gender inequalities, this book leads to a better understanding of gender and migration entanglements. It is a useful read to students, academics in migration and gender studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers in European countries.

Author : Kathie Friedman-Kasaba
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438403380

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Memories of Migration by Kathie Friedman-Kasaba Pdf

The migrant has been designated the central or defining figure of the 20th century. Yet, for much of this period, research and theory have centered on adult men as representative, ignoring women's part in international migration. Weaving together history, theory, and immigrant women's own words, Memories of Migration reveals women's multifaceted participation in the mass migrations from eastern and southern Europe to the United States at the turn of the century. By focusing on women's responses to Americanization organizations, coethnic community networks, and income-producing opportunities, this book provides rich insight into the sources of immigrant women's distinct fates in America.

Author : Francesca Falk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030016265

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Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland by Francesca Falk Pdf

This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage. Seeing society through the lens of migration alters the perspective from which our past and thus our present is told—and our future imagined.

Author : Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400728318

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Feminism and Migration by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio Pdf

Feminism and Migration: Cross-Cultural Engagements is a rich, original, and diverse collection on the intersections of feminism and migration in western and non-western contexts. This book explores the question: does migration empower women? Through wide-ranging topics on theorizing feminism in migration, contesting identities and agency, resistance and social justice, and religion for change, well-known and emerging scholars provide in-depth analysis of how social, cultural, political, and economic forces shape new modalities and perspectives among women upon migration. It highlights the centrality of the various meanings and interpretations of feminism(s) in the lives of immigrant and migrant women in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Greece, Japan, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Papua New Guinea, Spain, and the United States. The well-researched chapters explore the ways in which feminism and migration across cultures relate to women’s experiences in host societies --- as women, wives, mothers, exiles, nuns, and workers---and the avenues of interactions for change. Cross-cultural engagements point to the convergence and even disjunctures between (im)migrant and non-immigrant women that remain unrecognized in contemporary mainstream discourses on migration and feminism.