The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration

"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.

Autorentext

Claudia Mora is Professor at the School of Humanities and Senior Researcher at the Center for Technological Society and Human Future, 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.

Zusammenfassung

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 be 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, and Area Studies.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 An Intersectional and Global Approach to the Study of Gender And Migration

SECTION I: THEORISATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND MIGRATION

Chapter 2 Women, Gender, and Migration Trends in a Global World

Monica Boyd

Chapter 3 Gendering Transnationalism: Migration and Mobility in Longue Durée

Johanna Leinonen

Chapter 4 Intersectionality and Transnationality as Key Tools for Gender-Sensitive Migration Research

Helma Lutz and Anna Amelina

Chapter 5 Gender, Sexuality and Migration: Global Questions and Their Colonial Legacies

Ingrid Palmary

Chapter 6 Reflexivity and its Enactment Potential in Gender and Migration Research

Kyoko Shinozaki

SECTION II: CARE, AFFECTIVE AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR

Chapter 7 Gender, Migration and the Inequalities of Care

Isabel Shutes

Chapter 8 Gendered Transnational Parenting

Karlijn Haagsman and Valentina Mazzucato

Chapter 9 German Migrants in Pattaya, Thailand: Gendered Mobilities and the Blurring Boundaries between Sex Tourism, Marriage Migration and Lifestyle Migration

Kwanchanok Jaisuekun and Sirijit Sunanta

Chapter 10 Burmese Migrant Women Workers in Thailand: Juggling Production and Reproduction

Ruth Pearson and *Kyoko Kusakabe*

Chapter 11 Migration and Elderly Care: When Women Leave, Who Cares for Older Adults? A Case Study of Cuba

Elaine Acosta

SECTION III: GENDERED WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS MOBILITY

Chapter 12 Gender Bias in Skills Definition, Labour Market Dynamics and Skills Recognition

Anna Boucher

Chapter 13 Gender and Gender Relations in Skilled Migration: More than a Matter of Brains

Belinda Dodson

Chapter 14 Gender and International Student Migration Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi

Chapter 15 The Promises of Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Kaleidoscopic Exploration

Denise L. Spitzer

Chapter 16 Neoliberal 'Flexibility' and the Discursive Incorporation of Migrant Labour In

Public Eldercare in Finland

Sirpa Wrede, Lena Näre, Antero Olakivi and Camilla Nordberg

SECTION IV: GENDERED MIGRATION AS SITE OF GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 17 Gendering the Global Govern...