Reproducing, transforming and contesting gender relations and identities through migration and transnational ties

Erdal, Marta Bivand; Pawlak, Marek

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2017.1372378

Cited by 21 publications

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“…In the ethnographic sections, we have explored the ways migrants respond to Russia's migration policies, which disrupt their transnational lifestyle and negatively affect the perceived quality of life. Our discussion contributes to broader debates on gender transformations linked to migration, which address continuity and change of gender relations (Erdal and Pawlak 2018). Gender transformations are often framed through the empowerment of women who access the new resources, networks, and opportunities as they travel to destination countries and enter the labor market.…”

Section: Migration Policies and The Reconstitution Of Gender Relationsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The cultural understandings of masculinity and femininity can support or constrain the mobility of individuals. Yet, among Tajik return migrants, traditional hierarchies have more weight compared to the emerging shifts in gender relations (Bastia 2013;Erdal and Pawlak 2018). Migration empowers women who are migrating and staying behind, but entry bars enhance their vulnerability and make them subject to increased control.…”

Section: Migration Policies and The Reconstitution Of Gender Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By appealing to the authority of tradition, the newly independent states-including Tajikistan-seek to emancipate from the Soviet legacy and reaffirm culturally acceptable masculine and feminine behaviors (Bazin 2008;Cleuziou and Direnberger 2016). Gender relations are reproduced and contested through migration; however, structural factors -such as economics and politics-are known to define a large set of social practices, including gender (Erdal and Pawlak 2018). In this paper we focus on one structural force that defines gender relations-immigration laws in Russia, the destination of choice for Tajik labor migrants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan

Zotova

Cohen

2020

Nationalities Papers

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Russia remains the destination of choice for Tajik migrants. Its migration policies have profound implications for migrants’ legal status and capacity to remit and return home. This article draws on ethnographic research in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and explores how the enforcement of Russia’s immigration laws affects Tajik migrants and their families. By 2016, over 300,000 Tajik migrants were issued entry bars (zapret na v’ezd) for three or more years for two or more administrative offenses, including the lack of a work permit or a residential registration and a traffic violation. Migration and the transnational lifestyle increase agency among Tajik men and women, informing gender transformations. Entry bars produce temporary constraints to spatial and social mobility as migrants readjust to well-defined gender roles in their home country. We note how immigration laws affect men and women in different ways, contextualizing the gendered effects of entry bars through the lens of gender relations and understandings of masculinity and femininity in Tajikistan. We argue that the constraints to migrants’ mobility developed by Russian migration policies inform the reconstitution of gender relations in Tajikistan.

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Section: Migration Policies and The Reconstitution Of Gender Relationsmentioning

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Section: Migration Policies and The Reconstitution Of Gender Relationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cohen

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…As shown in the example above, the interviewee who defines herself as from a middle‐class background has shifted from a full‐time position to a part‐time position to look after her children. In doing so, she could reproduce specific gender roles (Erdal and Pawlak, ) in line with a male breadwinner/female caregiver model still very much valued in Poland while simultaneously keeping her job. To do so, she opted to rely on her sister's support as an informal social protection strategy, as well as relying on child benefits available in the UK welfare system described as typically more “residual”, not focusing on framing a particular family model and a forgone income transfer as well as mainly grounded on economic liberalism (see Barglowski and Pustulka, , p.5).…”

Section: A Bottom‐up Approach For Capturing Transnational Welfare Arrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Far from a Burden: EU Migrants as Pioneers of a European Social Protection System from Below

Godin

2019

International Migration

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At a time when the belief in a welfare crisis is being connected to a so-called "migration crisis", in particular in the United Kingdom, it is important to look at the lived experiences of mobile EU citizens and the influence of transnational social protection practices. The article introduces the concept of a "migration-welfare corridor"as opposed to the widespread welfare magnet hypothesistaking into consideration the role of welfare systems in origin and destination countries at different stages of a migrant's life cycle, the changing nature of the welfare habitus as well as migrants' attitudes towards what can be defined as welfare chauvinism. Looking specifically at the case of Spanish and Polish migrants in the UK who have reacted to this protracted environment of deterrence, particularly in respect to their welfare rights, this paper discusses several dimensions that should be taken into consideration when analyzing transnational social protection practices from below.

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“…Third, and most importantly, habitus is not an immutable "thing," but a social space that can be transformed, stretched, or challenged (Ley 2003;Adams 2006;Erdal and Pawlak 2018). Although media capitals are integral spaces to the established video game industry and its mainstream culture, the gamework habitus is not limited by physical location and proximity and is instead built by gameworkers expressing their cultural capital across space(s) (e.g., knowledge of what counts as "creative," esthetic and taste dispositions, and expected social practices).…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

Gaming on the edge: Mobile labour and global talent in Atlantic Canada's video game industry

Pottie‐Sherman¹,

Lynch²

2019

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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Key Messages• Locations in Atlantic Canada are emerging as legitimate nodes in the global video game sector, supported by interactive digital media incentives and post-secondary programs. • The local gaming sector is engaged with a wider gaming habitus, including promoting place attributes and the return migration of Maritimers, Newfoundlanders and other gameworkers. • The sustainability of the regional video game sector requires financial support that takes into consideration the local social, cultural, and economic contexts of gamework.Diminishing returns and advances in telecommunications have prompted large video game firms to seek new locations, outsource production, and develop niche studios, including on Canada's East Coast. In this paper, we examine emerging occupational cultures and trace the origins and evolution of video game production in Canada's Atlantic provinces-a critical yet peripheral space economy in the gaming sector. Our findings are drawn from 30 interviews with gameworkers, studio managers, government officials, and other industry experts. We find this industry to be driven by the confluence of three major factors: (i) provincial governments have supported video game development as a strategic industry via financial incentives; (ii) firms are benefiting from a return migration effect and are repatriating Atlantic Canadian talent from media hubs by selling "home," work-life balance, and an alternative to the punishing gamework culture associated with Silicon Valley; and (iii) post-secondary institutions in the region have improved their talent pipelines through computer science, digital media, and video game development programs.

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Reproducing, transforming and contesting gender relations and identities through migration and transnational ties

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan

Left Behind? Russia’s Entry Bars and Gender Relations in Tajikistan

Far from a Burden: EU Migrants as Pioneers of a European Social Protection System from Below

Gaming on the edge: Mobile labour and global talent in Atlantic Canada's video game industry

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