Migrer au féminin

Regards croisés sur les récits de vie des femmes philippines dans l’économie mondialisée du travail domestique. Pour une analyse processuelle des carrières migratoire

“…Mobilisé en premier lieu dans les travaux d'Everett Hughes (1937) au sujet des professions pour analyser les différentes étapes professionnelles, les changements de statut et l'articulation entre transformations objectives et subjectives, le concept de « carrière » s'est progressivement diffusé en sociologie (en particulier dans le monde francophone), marquant notamment de son empreinte la sociologie de la déviance (Becker 1985), la sociologie du militantisme (Fillieule 2001(Fillieule , 2009), ainsi que la sociologie des migrations (Massey 1999, Roulleau-Berger 2010, Martiniello & Rea 2011.…”

Gendered Transnational Ties and Multipolar Economies: Chinese Migrant Women's WeChat Commerce in Taiwan

“…During the last 30 years, the intensifying process of capitalistic globalization amplified women's internal migration in China (Li, ) and cross‐border migration from China to Taiwan (Hsia, ). Women's migrations have become more complex and pluralized (Roulleau‐Berger, ): their trajectories, bifurcations and orientations show the expanding interconnection and imbrication between the different sites women go through. In internal China, young women move from the rural areas to the cities to join their labour force within the industrial sector.…”

“…When questioning the access to and obstacles of entering the labour market of the country of arrival, scholarship has demonstrated that migrants are subjected to juxtaposed forms of discrimination: ethnic, related to their nationality; social, because of their status; and institutional, inherent to disadvantaging policies (Massey et al., ; Kloosterman and Rath, ; Portes, ). Moreover, grounded studies attested that when gender intersects with labour and migration, marginalization and insecurity become stronger (Benería, ; Roulleau‐Berger, ; Gaetano, ). Along these lines, there is a growing interest in the innovative strategies migrants bring about to adjust to the situations of vulnerability and uncertainty which distinguish their status (Martinelli, ).…”

“…Yet resources and networks (Portes, ) interact with the structures; and individual skills and competences are also critical factors in the migratory experience (Roulleau‐Berger, ). In this respect, the concept of career (Becker, ; Roulleau‐Berger, ; Martiniello and Rea, ) is useful when integrating these three different levels: the structures (the economic and spatial regimes, social and economic discrimination), the networks (in terms of social, economic and emotional capital, resources and support) and the individual as agent (skills and competences, capacity of action and affections). Here, I will show how these three levels are embedded on a transnational scale, because migrants act within transnational networks engendered in the different spaces crossed during migration.…”

Gendering Migration

“…It is not just a characteristic of individuals, but an organizing principle of social structure. The focus in research on "women in migration" remains considerable (Miranda, 2008;Roulleau-Berger, 2010;Oishi, 2005) and while gender is often used as a "substitute" (Catarino and Morokvasic, 2005), or "a shorthand" for women (Green, 2012), it is usually analyzed in intersection with other dimensions of social relations and sources of inequality and discrimination. The intersectional frame, formulated by Patricia Hill Collins (1990) as interlocking systems of oppression constitutive of migration systems, coined by Crenshaw (1995), is an important tool with which we may more accurately identify the myriad intertwined forms of cultural privilege and oppression both before and beyond gender (Beloso, 2012).…”