| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
An intersectional and global approach to the study of gender and migration / Claudia Mora and Nicola Piper-- Women, gender, and migration trends in a global world / Monica Boyd -- Gendering transnationalism : migration and mobility in longue durée / Johanna Leinonen -- Intersectionality and transnationality as key tools for gender-sensitive migration research / Helma Lutz and Anna Amelina -- Gender, sexuality and migration: global questions and their colonial legacies / Ingrid Palmary -- Reflexivity and its enactment potential in gender and migration research / Kyoko Shinozaki -- Gender, migration and the inequalities of care / Isabel Shutes -- Gendered transnational parenting / Karlijn Haagsman and Valentina Mazzucato -- German migrants in Pattaya, Thailand : gendered mobilities and the blurring boundaries between sex tourism, marriage migration, and lifestyle migration / Kwanchanok Jaisuekun and Sirijit Sunanta -- Burmese migrant women workers in Thailand : juggling production and reproduction / Ruth Pearson and Kyoko Kusakabe -- Migration and elderly care : when women leave, who cares for older adults? a case study of Cuba / Elaine Acosta -- Gender bias in skills definition, labour market dynamics and skills recognition / Anna Boucher -- Gender and gender relations in skilled migration : more than a matter of brains / Belinda Dodson -- Gender and international student migration / Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi -- The promises of migrant entrepreneurship : a kaleidoscopic exploration / Denise L. Spitzer -- Neoliberal 'flexibility' and the discursive incorporation of migrant labour in public eldercare in Finland / Sirpa Wrede, Lena Näre, Antero Olakivi and Camilla Nordberg -- Gendering the global governance of migration / Rianne Mahon -- On the gendered structures and outcomes of interstate bilateral labour agreements as migration governance instruments / Jenna Hennebry and K.C. Hari -- Revisiting the migration-development nexus debate through the prism of gender, politics and agency / Petra Dannecker and Nicola Piper -- Gender and remittances / Rahel Kunz and Julia Maisenbacher -- Human rights in households : gender and the global governance of migrant domestic workers / Jennifer N. Fish -- Gender, 'refugee women' and the politics of protection / Heaven Crawley -- 'Aberrant' masculinity : men, culture and forced migration / Rose Jaji -- Constructions of masculinities, class and refugee status among Syrian refugee men in Egypt / Magdalena Suerbaum -- Gender and refugee resettlement : the role of proximal and distal stressors in the experiences of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence / Jenny Phillimore, Sandra Pertek, and Lailah Alidu -- Slavery versus marronage as an analytic lens on 'trafficking' / Julia O'Connell Davidson -- Refugees, gender and disability : examining intersections through refugee journeys / Lucy Fiske and Chrisanthi Giotis -- 'I'm a refugee in my own country!' : gendering internal displacement & trauma / Malathi de Alwis -- Social protection, gender and international migrations : from national worlds to transnational quests / Sònia Parella and Thales Speroni -- Gender, naturalisation and deserving citizenship / Leah Bassel -- the impact of immigration regulations and visa policies on the gendered nature of international migration / Luisa Feline Freier and Nieves Fernández Rodríguez -- Women, borders, and mobilities in Latin America / Carolina Stefoni, Menara Guizardi, Eleonora López, and Herminia Gonzálvez |
| Summary |
This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographies of power, modern slavery, women and refugee law, masculinities, and more. Scholars from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania delve into institutional, normative, and day-to-day practices conditioning migrants rights, opportunities and life chances based on material from around the world. This handbook will of great interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Womens and Gender Studies, Sociology, Sexuality Studies, Migration Studies, Politics, Social Policy, Public Policy, Area Studies. Claudia Mora is Professor and Senior Researcher at the Technological Society and Human Future Center, Universidad Mayor, in Santiago de Chile. Nicola Piper is Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 2, 2021) |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Emigration and immigration -- Sex differences
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Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions
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Migrant labor -- Social conditions
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Women migrant labor -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions
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Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
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Migrant labor -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- Social conditions
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Emigration and immigration -- Sex differences
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mora, Claudia, editor
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Piper, Nicola, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030633479 |
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3030633470 |
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