Legal status, gender and employment among Salvadorans in the US

Wright, Richard; Bailey, Adrian J.; Miyares, Ines M.; Mountz, Alison

doi:10.1002/1099-1220(200007/08)6:4<273::aid-ijpg188>3.0.co;2-0

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“…Research within feminist geography and cognate fields has, for decades, elucidated the varied effects that women's paid labour has on gender relations, including effects on the home and household (Cameron & Gibson‐Graham, ; England & Lawson, ; Gilbert, ; Hanson & Pratt, ; Oberhauser, ). Likewise, transnational and migration studies have shown that migration, development, neoliberalism and globalisation are affected by and affect gendered relations (Kofman, ; Mullings, ; Pratt, , ; Silvey, , ; Wright, ; Wright et al., ). Feminist geopolitics and critical home studies have helped to focus attention towards the relationship between intimate spaces of displacement and gendered practices (Harker, ; Smith, ).…”

Section: Coping and Coping Labourmentioning

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“We are women and men now”: Intimate spaces and coping labour for Syrian women refugees in Jordan

Culcasi

2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Funding information West Virginia UniversityWar affects women from the bedroom to the battlefield, but for most women war is experienced within intimate spaces. Intimate spaces are rarely the focus of mainstream academic research or media reporting; thus women's experiences with war and displacement are often concealed. Building from literature in feminist geopolitics that helps focus our attention toward everyday and intimate geopolitics, I conducted in-depth interviews with Syrian women refugees in Jordan in order to examine how they are coping. Of the many ways that they've learned to cope, these women asserted that earning an income and adjusting to altered gender performances and relations have been both dire and formative. Many Syrian women refugees have become income providers for the first time in their lives.Some women have become their families' sole providers, and other women are now heads of households as well. Bringing literature from feminist geography, transnational and migration studies, and critical home studies together with feminist geopolitics, I offer the ideas of coping and coping labour as a framework to examine the intimate spaces of displacement. I highlight that paid work is understudied within feminist geopolitics, but such a focus renders important insights into how gender shapes experiences of displacement and how displacement is reshaping gendered relations. In this paper, I show that in the intimate spaces of displacement women have taken on traditionally masculine practices, but while their gendered performances shift, they are simultaneously entrenched as the ideals of appropriate feminine and masculine performances are recreated. Though these multiple gendered performances are creating numerous demands and challenges for Syrian women refugees, these women are also experiencing an increased sense of strength, confidence and respect as a result of their shifting performances. K E Y W O R D S displacement, feminist geopolitics, gender performances, household, paid labour, Syrian war ---

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Section: Coping and Coping Labourmentioning

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“We are women and men now”: Intimate spaces and coping labour for Syrian women refugees in Jordan

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2019

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“…For example, we found evidence that those with TPS or who were undocumented thought they were being hired to work for less than those with resident status. An ABC-class Salvadoran spoke of being passed over for promotion because his boss told him he was unsure how long he would remain in the country (see Wright et al 2000 for a detailed discussion). We also found that health and health care presented obstacles to Salvadorans meeting their remittance obligations.…”

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(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies

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As contemporary international migrants forge new webs of connection and social fields between distant places, transnational scholarship seeks to understand and theorize these emerging spaces. Our account of the Salvadoran transnational social field centered in northern New Jersey contributes to the development of transnational theory by considering how a particular legal provision-temporary protective status (TPS)-permeates daily life. We argue that material and nonmaterial aspects of daily life become associated with an experience of space-time relations to which we refer as permanent temporariness. Permanent temporariness limits the geographic, economic, social, and political ambitions of Salvadorans, but is increasingly resisted through acts of strategic visibility. Our article reflects on the implications of permanent temporariness for the production of scale in the particular transnational field we study, and on links to broader discussions about transnationalism, the international political economy of migration, and capitalist restructuring. To represent the experiences of Salvadorans, we use a transnational mixed-methods approach to pool quantitative and qualitative data that were collected serially at multiple sites.

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“…7 The story of their efforts to secure US residency is one of power relations: the power of the state set against the ability of Salvadorans and their allies to sidestep these efforts or mobilize the law to meet their own goals (Coutin 2000). The state constructs identities of 'temporary residents', and these power plays affect the material struggles of daily life in profound ways (for example, Bailey et al 2002;Coutin 2000;Mahler 1995;Wright et al 2000), including immigrants' experiences with housing markets, labour markets and family reunification.…”

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Lives in limbo: Temporary Protected Status and immigrant identities

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The United States formulates much of its immigration and refugee policy to match economic and political circumstances. We interpret these policy shifts as a set of graduated positions on immigration and refugee flows that attempts to discipline the lives of newcomers and, in so doing, shapes immigrant identities. In this article, we analyse the interplay between the US government and Salvadoran asylum applicants negotiating procedures that grant only temporary relief from deportation via the policy of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). We find that each policy shift results in the strategic renegotiation of asylum applicants' identities so as to achieve the best opportunity for a successful outcome. Based on Foucault's ideas of governmentality and Ong's concept of flexible citizenship, we argue that what appears more superficially as a patchwork strategy of immigration laws and asylum practices may be theorized more deeply as a set of flexible responses by the state that turn on identity construction at different scales, and that aim to mediate transnational relations.

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Legal status, gender and employment among Salvadorans in the US

Cited by 15 publications

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“We are women and men now”: Intimate spaces and coping labour for Syrian women refugees in Jordan

“We are women and men now”: Intimate spaces and coping labour for Syrian women refugees in Jordan

(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies

Lives in limbo: Temporary Protected Status and immigrant identities

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