Reconceptualising the migration – development nexus: diasporas, globalisation and the politics of exclusion

Davies, Rebecca

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“…Within the postcolonial context characterized by weakened state governance and aggressive neoliberal capitalism on the continent (Davies 2007), the majority of men are finding it hard to achieve what historically might have been seen as successful masculinity (Ratele 2014). Since the 1980s, many African countries introduced the International Monetary Fund/World Bank prescribed structural adjustment programs (SAPs) designed to restore the economies to high growth (Davies 2007). SAPs recommended the liberalization of the economy, the privatizations of state companies, and the cutting of state subsidies.…”

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Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

Pasura

Christou

2017

Men and Masculinities

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Just as masculinity is crucial in the construction of nationhood, masculinity is also significant in the making and unmaking of transnational communities. This article focuses on how black African men negotiate and perform respectable masculinity in transnational settings, such as the workplace, community, and family. Moving away from conceptualizations of black transnational forms of masculinities as in perpetual crisis and drawing on qualitative data collected from the members of the new African diaspora in London, the article explores the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being challenged, reaffirmed, and reconfigured. The article argues that men experience a loss of status as breadwinners and a rupture of their sense of masculine identity in the reconstruction of life in the diaspora. Conditions in the hostland, in particular, women's breadwinner status and the changing gender relations, threaten men's "hegemonic masculinity" and consequently force men to negotiate respectable forms of masculinity.

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Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

Pasura

Christou

2017

Men and Masculinities

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“…The World Bank estimates that officially recorded remittance flows to developing countries reached $283 billion in 2008, a 6.7 per cent increase on 2007 (World Bank 2008). In many cases remittances constitute a larger income source than official development assistance (Davies 2007;Gammeltoft 2002). Research has also shown that transnational migrants have undertaken a range of large-and small-scale ventures in their home places.…”

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Unsettling connections: transnational networks, development and African home associations

Mercer¹,

Page²,

Evans³

2009

Global Networks

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“…This trope connects closely to transnational discourses depicting migrants as 'transnational development agents' alleviating poverty in their home countries through employment abroad (Faist, 2008). In congruence with depictions of migrant labourers within a 'migration-development' framework as 'tool(s)' for 'lifting' 'underdeveloped' countries out of poverty, these narratives paint migrant caregivers as flexible forms of human capital who, through the sending of remittances, can 'move' their home countries along a linear trajectory from poverty to 'modernity' (Davies, 2007;Faist, 2008;Raghuram, 2009;Wise et al, 2013: 430). 7 In the Israeli context, this trope normalises and conceals the racial basis of the state and concomitant hierarchies among women by painting Israel as a nation for all its economic citizens.…”

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“…As Liebelt explains, many Christian Filipino caregivers come to Israel as much to tend to the elderly as to 'care for the holy land' (2011: 18). Economic reductionism not only overstates the positive effects of remittances and essentialises migrants' many contributions to sending and host countries; it also decontextualises female migration from a broader history of failed structural adjustment programmes and colonial labour extraction (Davies, 2007;Faist, 2008;Raghuram, 2009;Wise et al, 2013). As Idan notes, 'Israelis really feel they're in a Western, developed society and these foreigners come because they want to live in this society.…”

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Reproducing the national family: kinship claims, development discourse and migrant caregivers in Palestine/Israel

Brown

2019

Feminist Theory

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This article probes the politics of the migrant caregiver/citizen-employer relationship in Palestine/Israel as it unfolds within the Jewish-Israeli home. Based on interviews with migrants from the Philippines, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka and their Jewish-Israeli employers, I examine how Israel’s ethno-racially hierarchical citizenship regime and the transnational gendering and racialisation of carework manifest in this relationship. I begin by situating migrant women working as caregivers within the legal and political context of Palestine/Israel, delineating how gendered constructions of the Jewish-Israeli woman uphold the borders of the nation and paint non-Jewish migrant women as reproductively threatening. I then analyse two common tropes among citizen-employers in describing migrant caregivers. The first, what I term the ‘kinship trope’, characterizes them as ‘one of the family’, obscuring the ethno-racial basis of the state. I show how this trope contrasts sharply with Zionist settler colonial rhetoric portraying Jewish-Israelis as ‘one big family’. The second trope represents migrant women as individual agents of economic development and Israel as a market-driven, neoliberal society that is equally a state for all its citizens. By depicting Israel as a ‘modern’, ‘progressive’ state that is an exemplar of gender equality, this trope again masks the ethno-racial basis of citizenship, as well as gender disparities. Finally, I argue for a feminist approach to migrant carework that accounts for the ways neoliberal labour formations are mediated by gendered racisms specific to a particular state’s racial nation-building project.

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Reconceptualising the migration – development nexus: diasporas, globalisation and the politics of exclusion

Cited by 39 publications

References 39 publications

Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

Unsettling connections: transnational networks, development and African home associations

Reproducing the national family: kinship claims, development discourse and migrant caregivers in Palestine/Israel

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