Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration

DeLaet, Debra L.

doi:10.1057/9780333983461_1

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“…Studies reveal that men and women are received differently by their host society, which leads to different patterns of social interaction and participation in the new host society and in transnational spaces (Itzigsohn & Giorguli-Saucedo, 2005). Yet, only in recent years have scholars begun to bring gender into the core of migration studies (e.g., DeLaet, 1999;Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1999;Pessar, 1984Pessar, , 1985Pessar, , 1999. To gain a fuller picture of the ways in which schooling influences the lives of recent immigrant students, we connect school-based studies of youth with the family-and labor-centered examinations of immigrants' gendered experiences.…”

Section: Immigrant Adjustment and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategic Transformation: Cultural and Gender Identity Negotiation in First-Generation Vietnamese Youth

Stritikus

Nguyen

2007

American Educational Research Journal

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Section: Immigrant Adjustment and Gendermentioning

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Strategic Transformation: Cultural and Gender Identity Negotiation in First-Generation Vietnamese Youth

Stritikus

Nguyen

2007

American Educational Research Journal

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“…Many of the articles deal with instances in which women migrate to join their husbands overseas. DeLaet (1999) suggests that legal migration for family reunification has been the primary route for the international migration of women. However, critics blame governmental reliance on this category for contributing to the disempowerment of female migrants, because such women are implicitly placed in a 'family role' rather than a 'market role' (Boyd and Grieco 2003).…”

Section: Gendering Migration: Family Reunification and The Question Omentioning

confidence: 99%

South Asian transnational marriages in comparative perspective

Charsley

Shaw

2006

Global Networks

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This issue on South Asian transnational marriages brings diverse practices and networks into detailed ethnographic focus. Gender and agency are key themes explored in the collection, as well as the potential and actual transformation of gendered status resulting from marrying a migrant or joining a spouse overseas. The introduction identifies some common threads. Several articles challenge the assumption of wives' passivity in arranged marriages or in their joining husbands overseas, while one highlights the less‐documented experiences of men who migrate to join wives working abroad. The collection also offers insights into the cultural and emotional reasons for such marriages, complementing analyses that stress strategic motivations, and noting the emotional consequences of separation and new household formations for the experiences of marriage and parenthood. Marriage emerges as an important means of producing and transforming transnational networks, while marriage practices and dynamics are themselves transformed in the process.

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“…Apparently, the beginning of the 21st century saw less and less emphasis on free migration, but sovereign entities among the comity of nations (specifically the dominant industrialized North) strive very hard, to streamline what category of migrants they need, and who comes into their territories and who doesn't (Esipova, Ray, & Srinivasan, 2011;DeLaet, 1999). Name-calling and the act of mislabeling transnational migrants by the receiving societies using mass media are noted ways of creating biases that would engender restrictive government policies against immigrants, particularly when the economic and fiscal conditions of the receiving states are unfavourable (Kretsedemas, & Capetillo-Ponce, 2014;Kapur, 2005;Kanenko, 2003 …”

Section: Vision Cut Short: Migrant's Goal At Its Waterloo (Border Resmentioning

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Under-Valorization of Tragedies at the Borders of Europe: African Migrant Youth and the Politicization of Biological Pigmentation

Nwalutu¹,

Nwalutu²,

Ngene³

2018

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As an emerging trend, young adults are crossing transnational borders as independent migrants. In this paper we use data collected with Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, IPA in a qualitative field study conducted in 2013 in the Republic of Malta to examine the persistent restrictions imposed on African migrant youth at European borders. The analysis employs anti-racist and anticolonial theories to accentuate the border dynamics and EU policy imperatives that have driven migrant African youth into more hazardous measures to reach their destination. This paper becomes timely as the attention of international community is in the recent times drawn to a pervasive trend in transnational migration we have been grappling with for some time. Fed by the internal displacement of peoples in the Middle-East, Asia, and particularly the ongoing war in Syria, large number of migrants are ferrying across Mediterranean Sea to the borders of Europe. Before now, a majority of the casualties of the Africa-Europe migration are men, women, and children-dark-skinned Africans-whose lifeless bodies continued to wash up on the European coasts with none batting an eyelid. The questions that emerge are: what changed? We argue that politicization of biological pigmentation happens at the spaces of transnational border representation in which racialized African youth migrants are unfairly restricted. We conclude by proffering non-discriminatory approaches for managing the 21st century youth migration.

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Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration

Cited by 26 publications

References 11 publications

Strategic Transformation: Cultural and Gender Identity Negotiation in First-Generation Vietnamese Youth

Strategic Transformation: Cultural and Gender Identity Negotiation in First-Generation Vietnamese Youth

South Asian transnational marriages in comparative perspective

Under-Valorization of Tragedies at the Borders of Europe: African Migrant Youth and the Politicization of Biological Pigmentation

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