The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration

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9783030633479

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1st ed. 2021.

Publication Information New:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Physical Description:

XV, 541 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.

Contents:

1.An Intersectional and Global Approach to the Study of Gender And Migration -- SECTION I: THEORISATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND MIGRATION -- 2. Women, Gender, and Migration Trends in a Global World -- 3. Gendering Transnationalism: Migration and Mobility in Longue Durée -- 4. Intersectionality and Transnationality as Key Tools for Gender-Sensitive Migration Research -- 5. Gender, Sexuality and Migration: Global Questions and Their Colonial Legacies -- 6. Reflexivity and its Enactment Potential in Gender and Migration Research -- SECTION II: CARE, AFFECTIVE AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR -- 7. Gender, Migration and the Inequalities of Care -- 8. Gendered Transnational Parenting -- 9. German Migrants in Pattaya, Thailand: Gendered Mobilities and the Blurring Boundaries between Sex Tourism, Marriage Migration and Lifestyle Migration -- 10. Burmese Migrant Women Workers in Thailand: Juggling Production and Reproduction -- 11. Migration and Elderly Care: When Women Leave, Who Cares for Older Adults? A Case Study of Cuba -- SECTION III: GENDERED WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS MOBILITY -- 12. Gender Bias in Skills Definition, Labour Market Dynamics and Skills Recognition -- 13. Gender and Gender Relations in Skilled Migration: More than a Matter of Brains -- 14. Gender and International Student Migration -- 15. The Promises of Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Kaleidoscopic Exploration -- 16. Neoliberal 'Flexibility' and the Discursive Incorporation of Migrant Labour in Public Eldercare in Finland -- SECTION IV: GENDERED MIGRATION AS SITE OF GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT -- 17. Gendering the Global Governance of Migration -- 18. On the Gendered Structures and Outcomes of Interstate Bilateral Labour Agreements as Migration Governance Instruments -- 19. Revisiting the Migration-Development Nexus Debate through the Prism of Gender, Politics and Agency -- 20 Gender and Remittances -- 21. Human Rights in Households: Gender and the Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers -- SECTION V: FORCED MIGRATION, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT -- 22. Gender, 'Refugee Women' and the Politics of Protection -- 23. "Aberrant" Masculinity: Men, Culture and Forced Migration -- 24. Constructions of Masculinities, Class and Refugee Status Among Syrian Refugee Men in Egypt -- 25. Gender and Refugee Resettlement: The Role of Proximal and Distal Stressors in the Experiences of Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence -- 26. Slavery Versus Marronage as an Analytic Lens on "Trafficking" -- 27. Refugees, Gender and Disability: Examining Intersections Through Refugee Journeys -- 28. 'I'm a refugee in my own country!' Gendering Internal Displacement & Trauma -- SECTION VI: GENDERING MIGRANT RIGHTS, SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE POLITICS OF INCLUSION -- 29. Social Protection, Gender and International Migrations: From National Worlds to Transnational Quests -- 30. Gender, Naturalisation and Deserving Citizenship -- 31. The Impact of Immigration Regulations and Visa Policies on the Gendered Nature of International Migration -- 32. Women, Borders, and Mobilities in Latin America.

Abstract:

"The handbook offers a timely report and comprehensive review of gendered migration. A great toolkit for the study of increased mobilities and persistent Inequalities in today's world." Pei-Chia Lan, Director of Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University "The editors have produced a very exciting handbook demonstrating the breadth and depth of the field of Gender Studies and Migration Studies. It represents a very welcome addition to the growing literature and covers a wide range of traditional and emerging topics and debates. This handbook also offers an impressive global coverage." Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University London. 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 Women's 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.

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Sex.

Emigration and immigration.

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