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The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration
Beyond Western Research
9781802201253 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive contributions from leading international experts on gender and global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories, families and working cultures in which local, regional, national, and global economies are embedded.
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This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive contributions from leading international experts on gender and global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories, families and working cultures in which local, regional, national, and global economies are embedded.
Examining recent migratory flows and changing migration corridors across the globe, the Companion offers critical insights into the wider dynamics that compel people to migrate. Chapters address key topics relating to gender and global migration, from global cities and border regions, internal displacements, and humanitarian risks, to the changing face of care chains and labour, pandemic mobilities, expulsions from climate change and the weight of critical historical colonial studies in contemporary feminisms. The volume further explores extractivism, colonial images, the agrifood industry, qualified labour, remittances, cross-border trade, and extreme violence. Advancing a compelling range of forward-looking perspectives, this dynamic Companion establishes a novel agenda for future research on gender and global migration.
Integrating empirical case studies with cutting-edge theory, The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration will be an invaluable resource for a multidisciplinary audience of scholars across sociology, anthropology, geography, economics and political science, as well as migration and gender studies. Its themes will also be of significant interest to policymakers, administrators and grassroots organisations involved in emerging topics in migration studies.
Examining recent migratory flows and changing migration corridors across the globe, the Companion offers critical insights into the wider dynamics that compel people to migrate. Chapters address key topics relating to gender and global migration, from global cities and border regions, internal displacements, and humanitarian risks, to the changing face of care chains and labour, pandemic mobilities, expulsions from climate change and the weight of critical historical colonial studies in contemporary feminisms. The volume further explores extractivism, colonial images, the agrifood industry, qualified labour, remittances, cross-border trade, and extreme violence. Advancing a compelling range of forward-looking perspectives, this dynamic Companion establishes a novel agenda for future research on gender and global migration.
Integrating empirical case studies with cutting-edge theory, The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration will be an invaluable resource for a multidisciplinary audience of scholars across sociology, anthropology, geography, economics and political science, as well as migration and gender studies. Its themes will also be of significant interest to policymakers, administrators and grassroots organisations involved in emerging topics in migration studies.
Critical Acclaim
‘Firmly anchored in critical analysis of women’s migration under 1980s neoliberal globalization and stretching into twenty-first century displacements, violence and migration-care regimes, this volume brings together inquiries spanning across parts of Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. A must read for those seeking new approaches to gender and migration.’
– Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, US
‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus on non-Western settings wherein are explored a wide range of intersecting themes: migration, mobilities, displacement, gender, human rights, development, transnational care, and many more. This is a must-read for students of gendered migrations.’
– Russell King, University of Sussex, UK
– Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, US
‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus on non-Western settings wherein are explored a wide range of intersecting themes: migration, mobilities, displacement, gender, human rights, development, transnational care, and many more. This is a must-read for students of gendered migrations.’
– Russell King, University of Sussex, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Luciano G. Alfaya, Asaf Augusto, Cynthia Bejarano, Sana Benbelli, Henri Yambene Bomono, Lesley Braun, Clara Camps Calvet, Fabio Magalhães Candotti, Chiara Denaro, Angels Escrivà, Sarah Ettallab, Marcos Linhares Goes, Anne Gonon, Constance De Gourcy, Mandana Hendessi, Chieh Hsu, Laura Lamas-Abraira, Amelia Sáiz López, Rita Machanda, Jorge Malheiros, Alexandra Martínez, Flávia Melo, Raquel Nazário Motta, Fadma Ait Mous, Patricia Muñiz, Enara Muñoz, Dino Di Nella, José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Laura Velasco Ortiz, Laura Oso, Tullio Prestileo, Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Aracely Martínez Rodas, Markus Rudolf, Elisabet Almeda Samaranch, Eugenia Hernández Sánchez, Saskia Sassen, Jasvinder Sidhu, Supriya Singh, Sofia Stimmatini, Tassah Ivo Tawe, Ángel del Valle, María del Carmen Villarreal, Ramón Zamora
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration 1
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen
PART I BACKGROUND
2 A state-of-the-art review and future directions in gender and migration research 24
Laura Lamas-Abraira
3 Revisiting the gender, migration and development nexus through the
circulation of assets approach 38
Laura Oso
4 The absent image of women: lacunae in the legacy of French colonial
mobilities 49
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
PART II LATIN AMERICA
5 Extractivism, forced gendered migration and resistance in Latin
America and the Caribbean 84
María del Carmen Villarreal and Enara Muñoz
6 Women and punishment in Abya Yala 97
Elisabet Almeda Samaranch, Clara Camps Calvet and Dino Di Nella
7 Scientific mobilities in the twentieth century: Gustaf Bolinder’s
photographs of indigenous women in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 109
Alexandra Martínez
8 Embodying ethnic and labor relations: indigenous women and US–
Mexico labor mobility circuits in the agrifood industry 124
Laura Velasco Ortiz
9 Desértica feminista: collision of theories, identity, and [im]migrant–
border encounters 133
Eugenia Hernández Sánchez and Cynthia Bejarano
10 Women’s mobilities: a blacklight on gender and care in the Amazon 147
José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Fabio Magalhães Candotti and Flávia Melo
11 Lack of opportunities for indigenous young women in Guatemala:
forced mobility and absence of social protection systems 161
Aracely Martínez Rodas, Ángel del Valle and Ramón Zamora
PART III ASIA
12 A study of the lives of internally displaced women after the Fukushima disaster 172
Anne Gonon
13 Chinese internal migration dynamics as a way of understanding
globalization and gender 180
Amelia Sáiz López
14 Shifting migrant categories and recast boundaries in China:
transnational women in family migration 187
Chieh Hsu
15 Qualified Brazilian migrant women in Dubai: constraints, agency, and
change in the migratory process 196
Raquel Nazário Motta, Marcos Linhares Goes and Jorge Malheiros
16 In the eye of the storm: Afghan women and girls navigating displacement 211
Mandana Hendessi
17 Gender conflict and forced migration in India: human rights perspectives 221
Rita Machanda
18 Remittances, migration and economic abuse: ‘invisible in plain sight’ 232
Supriya Singh and Jasvinder Sidhu
PART IV AFRICA
19 Women and cross-border trade between Angola and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo 240
Asaf Augusto and Lesley Braun
20 The Anglophone crisis and migratory patterns in Cameroon: some
social and economic implications for women 253
Tassah Ivo Tawe and Henri Yambene Bomono
21 Humanitarian tropes in the Casamance: presumptions about
gender-based violence in conflict and displacement contexts 264
Markus Rudolf
PART V THE MEDITERRANEAN
22 Missing in the Mediterranean: a perspective from Tunisian mothers 277
Sofia Stimmatini and Constance De Gourcy
23 Origins of extreme violence in Palermo: health (infectious) impact of
the trans-Saharan/Mediterranean route for women on the move 286
Tullio Prestileo and Natalia Ribas-Mateos
24 Gender and humanitarian issues in transitional shelter processes: the
cases of Syrian refugees and displaced communities by the earthquake in Haiti 300
Patricia Muñiz and Luciano G. Alfaya
25 Sub-Saharan and Syrian women’s embodying migration experiences in
Casablanca 310
Fadma Ait Mous, Sana Benbelli and Sarah Ettallab
PART VI EUROPE
26 Globalization and health: gender issues in temporary agricultural work
(Huelva) 323
Angels Escrivà
27 Squatting in a “home”: intersectional struggles of migrant women in
Lucha y Siesta (Rome) 333
Chiara Denaro
Index
1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration 1
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen
PART I BACKGROUND
2 A state-of-the-art review and future directions in gender and migration research 24
Laura Lamas-Abraira
3 Revisiting the gender, migration and development nexus through the
circulation of assets approach 38
Laura Oso
4 The absent image of women: lacunae in the legacy of French colonial
mobilities 49
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
PART II LATIN AMERICA
5 Extractivism, forced gendered migration and resistance in Latin
America and the Caribbean 84
María del Carmen Villarreal and Enara Muñoz
6 Women and punishment in Abya Yala 97
Elisabet Almeda Samaranch, Clara Camps Calvet and Dino Di Nella
7 Scientific mobilities in the twentieth century: Gustaf Bolinder’s
photographs of indigenous women in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 109
Alexandra Martínez
8 Embodying ethnic and labor relations: indigenous women and US–
Mexico labor mobility circuits in the agrifood industry 124
Laura Velasco Ortiz
9 Desértica feminista: collision of theories, identity, and [im]migrant–
border encounters 133
Eugenia Hernández Sánchez and Cynthia Bejarano
10 Women’s mobilities: a blacklight on gender and care in the Amazon 147
José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Fabio Magalhães Candotti and Flávia Melo
11 Lack of opportunities for indigenous young women in Guatemala:
forced mobility and absence of social protection systems 161
Aracely Martínez Rodas, Ángel del Valle and Ramón Zamora
PART III ASIA
12 A study of the lives of internally displaced women after the Fukushima disaster 172
Anne Gonon
13 Chinese internal migration dynamics as a way of understanding
globalization and gender 180
Amelia Sáiz López
14 Shifting migrant categories and recast boundaries in China:
transnational women in family migration 187
Chieh Hsu
15 Qualified Brazilian migrant women in Dubai: constraints, agency, and
change in the migratory process 196
Raquel Nazário Motta, Marcos Linhares Goes and Jorge Malheiros
16 In the eye of the storm: Afghan women and girls navigating displacement 211
Mandana Hendessi
17 Gender conflict and forced migration in India: human rights perspectives 221
Rita Machanda
18 Remittances, migration and economic abuse: ‘invisible in plain sight’ 232
Supriya Singh and Jasvinder Sidhu
PART IV AFRICA
19 Women and cross-border trade between Angola and the Democratic
Republic of the Congo 240
Asaf Augusto and Lesley Braun
20 The Anglophone crisis and migratory patterns in Cameroon: some
social and economic implications for women 253
Tassah Ivo Tawe and Henri Yambene Bomono
21 Humanitarian tropes in the Casamance: presumptions about
gender-based violence in conflict and displacement contexts 264
Markus Rudolf
PART V THE MEDITERRANEAN
22 Missing in the Mediterranean: a perspective from Tunisian mothers 277
Sofia Stimmatini and Constance De Gourcy
23 Origins of extreme violence in Palermo: health (infectious) impact of
the trans-Saharan/Mediterranean route for women on the move 286
Tullio Prestileo and Natalia Ribas-Mateos
24 Gender and humanitarian issues in transitional shelter processes: the
cases of Syrian refugees and displaced communities by the earthquake in Haiti 300
Patricia Muñiz and Luciano G. Alfaya
25 Sub-Saharan and Syrian women’s embodying migration experiences in
Casablanca 310
Fadma Ait Mous, Sana Benbelli and Sarah Ettallab
PART VI EUROPE
26 Globalization and health: gender issues in temporary agricultural work
(Huelva) 323
Angels Escrivà
27 Squatting in a “home”: intersectional struggles of migrant women in
Lucha y Siesta (Rome) 333
Chiara Denaro
Index
