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Written by Nasara Cabrera abu and INmaCulada Fumero de leóN This article considers the importance and evolution of the gender perspective in migratory studies. It also underscores some of the main problems that characterise the migration experience of women, such as job placement and family reunification policies. Finally, a brief overview is provided of the specifics of the Canarian context and of how the press in the Canaries covers migrant women..
Reseña del libro Gender and migration, de Caroline B. Brettel (2016) // Book review on Gender and migration, by Caroline B. Brettel (2016)
It has been close to four decades since the discussion on the links between gender and migration was explicitly put forward by scholars. Since then, numerous research projects and publications have centered on this interaction, generating abundant empirical evidence and theoretical discussions.1 “Engendering” migration studies made visible the participation of women as active actors in the migration process in different ways, both at the origin and destination sites. It also broadened the scope of migration research as it was paralleled by a discussion around family and human mobility, integrating the participation of other members of the family into the migration process (for example, exploring the reorganization of roles and responsibilities and the transformation of family relations when one or more members of the household migrate). The cumulative knowledge on migration and gender can be grouped broadly (but not exhaustively) in four main questions: (1) to what extent migration transforms gender relations and women’s status; (2) the particular role of women in international labor markets, which differs from that of male migrants and which is linked to gender ideologies; (3) the transformation in family formation, dynamics and arrangements due to the mobility of men and women (and how it transforms gender relations); (4) the potential change in women’s situation when the migration process increases their participation in the public sphere. These questions have been studied either from the perspective of the communities of origin or of destination. Keywords Gender and migration – Family and migration – Feminization of migration – Family life cycle – Marriage migration – Labor migration.
Feminization of Migration: Is it a Double-Edged Sword
United International Journal for Research & Technology, 2020
Although frequently addressed, the concept of feminization of migration remains insufficiently researched. Contrary to the common belief that feminization of migration is an increase in the proportion of women in the overall number of migrants; this article aims at nuancing the misunderstood concept of feminization of migration, through distinguishing between feminization of migration process and feminization of research on migration.
Clio. Women, Gender, History, 2020
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Gender and Intra-Regional Migration in
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This paper examines the process of feminization of South American intra-regional migration, with emphasis in the Southern Cone. It describes recent changes and trends, and addresses some of the most salient issues on the participation and experiences of female migrants. It deals with the social and economic reasons underlying the increasing autonomous migration of women, particularly on the interconnections between the South-American economic restructuring and the increasing demand of female migrants by the service and care sectors. Further issues are examined, such as the potential effects of the migration process on women's empowerment; the emergence of global chains of care and its relation with long-distance motherhood; and the labor market experiences of female migrant. Finally, the report also deals with the dark side of the women's migration: female trafficking.
Governmentality in Service Provision for Migrated Women in Spain
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2013
A gender perspective has been incorporated in transnational migration studies over the last two decades in Spain. According to feminist inquiry, research has focused mainly on four areas: transnational maternities, transformation in global care regimes, multiple discrimination experiences and change in gender relations by means of migration. In this paper, we suggest that there is a fifth area that has been neglected: one that studies the ways in which governmentality practices, performed within service provision aimed at migrant populations, are enacted in host societies. We argue that mechanisms of categorisation developed in service provision in Spain contribute to the construction of the category of "Third World Women". A set of discourses and practices that are based on gender and cultural assignation related with stereotyped understandings of migrated women in host societies, situating them as suitable workers for current care regimes within these societies. These mechanisms have an important impact on life situations experienced by many migrated women as they are integrated into a low waged and undervalued work market. Further developments must be made in this last area of inquiry from a critical standpoint, in order to avoid the reproduction of discriminatory practices within institutional intervention settings. Current Debates on Gender and Migration in Spain Studies on migration in Spain have made major headway in the past 20 years. In the 1990s, there was a surge in societal and scholarly interest in the issue, dovetailing with the arrival of immigrants from countries outside the European Community, as well as with the shaping of the phenomenon of immigration as a "socio-political problem" (Gregorio, 2010). The introduction of gender perspectives when studying migrations in this country was influenced by the research performed by female authors in Europe and internationally. Influenced by the gender approach (Phizacklea, 1994), Marxism and political economics (Sassen, 1996) and the macro and micro social perspective (Kearny, 1986), it began to gain momentum (Gregorio, 2010). In the late 1990s, a series of female authors from Spain concurred in declaring the importance of including gender in the different studies on migration.