Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective

Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.018

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“…This can then manifest culturally into patriarchal societies, as men control crop production and have better bargaining power than women (Alesina et al, 2013;Burton & White, 1984). In turn, women, who become dependent on men -and often restricted to household labor -lose bargaining power, and their mobility and decision-making can become severely limited (Djurfeldt, 2021). Outside options have been seen to override allegedly universal preferences for equity (Debove, Baumard & André, 2017), in the popular Ultimatum Game, by modulating evaluations of the same division of resources (Knez & Camerer, 1995;Schmitt, 2004).…”

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Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in Households: From Culture to Cognition

Deb¹,

Kusimova²,

Hominis³

2023

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Though labor-force participation of women has considerably increased in most industrialized societies and many households are now dual-earner, the gender imbalance in household division of labor persists. Moreover, the consensus amongst men and women is that such distributions are fair, resulting in normalization and perpetuation of inequality. We provide a multifactorial explanation for understanding the economic, cultural and cognitive processes underlying such inequalities within households. The economic approach suggests that gendered division of labor is a problem of coordination, and payoffs available to individuals outside their households provides asymmetric bargaining power to men and women, shaping housework conventions. In most industrialized societies, various measures of economic payoffs such as financial assets, employment potential, can then provide power to gender groups. The sociological approach bridges this macro-level view of households with the micro-level view of an individual’s perceptions of labor divisions. Utilizing various aspects of culture, this section shows that when labor divisions become stabilized on a large scale, they become part of cultural narratives and norms – such as what individuals think fairness in the household is, what gender roles they abide by, etc – which become internalized. The psychological approach explores cognitive mechanisms underpinning self-perception and assessments of fairness within one’s household. This multi factorial approach allows us to address the individual dynamics of self-concept within the broader social and economic contexts that households exist within. Ultimately, we aim to demonstrate the utility of such multidisciplinary work for informing gender policy at various levels and making holistic strides toward the improvement of women's health and wellbeing.

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Section: Outside Options and Relative Bargaining Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in Households: From Culture to Cognition

Deb¹,

Kusimova²,

Hominis³

2023

Preprint

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“…The ‘household’ is a central concept within development research, policy and programming and has well-established practical and theoretical advantages as a generalizable unit of analysis (Andersson Djurfeldt, 2021; De Haas, 2010; Muniina et al, 2014; Rabe, 2008). However, in contexts where migration is fundamental in many people’s livelihoods and relationships, the consequences of migration at the household level are far reaching, spanning productive and reproductive domains and bringing binary distinctions between ‘monolocal’ households at ‘origin’ and ‘destination’ into question.…”

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“…However, in contexts where migration is fundamental in many people’s livelihoods and relationships, the consequences of migration at the household level are far reaching, spanning productive and reproductive domains and bringing binary distinctions between ‘monolocal’ households at ‘origin’ and ‘destination’ into question. This applies to both international and internal migration, and thus to ‘householding’ at both transnational and translocal scales (Andersson Djurfeldt, 2021; Douglass, 2006; Yeoh et al, 2005).…”

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“…Efforts to conceptualize spatially distributed or ‘translocal’ households in Africa have a particularly long track record, drawing on concerns about the social and economic impacts of rural–urban labour migration in Africa from at least the 1950s onwards (Englund, 2002; Potts, 2010), and more recent work demonstrating the resilience of rural–urban links and ongoing ‘fluid’ household membership across the continent (Ramisch, 2016; Rao et al, 2020). In Asia, a growing number of studies on translocal householding reflect similar concerns but often incorporate a more explicit focus on gendered outcomes within the household (Andersson Djurfeldt, 2021; Fan, 2021).…”

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Migration, Gender and Intergenerational Interdependence: Translocal Households Involving Older People and Migrants in Uganda

Walsham

2023

Progress in Development Studies

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Older people play a key role in intergenerational households across the developing world, including in caring for the children of migrants. However, research on ‘translocal households’ in Africa and Asia focuses almost exclusively on households headed by working-age husbands and wives and fails to substantially incorporate older people, whether as household heads or household members. This article presents findings from Kiboga District, Uganda on intrahousehold dynamics and wellbeing within translocal households containing older people and younger migrants. A relational approach is adopted to interrogate gendered notions of dependence, independence and interdependence within these intergenerational relationships. ‘Translocal interdependencies’ are found to underpin these households and are critical to the wellbeing of older people, migrants and their children. However, households are also diverse in character, occupying a ‘spectrum of translocality’ ranging from coherent, supportive translocal households, to those with less unified and less reliable—but often highly persistent—linkages between migrants and older people. Further, older women may overstate, and older men understate, the translocal support to which they have access, with important consequences for development programming targeted at older people. Debates about ageing and development need to reflect the key role played by older people within these gendered webs of translocal interdependence, while acknowledging and seeking to address the many challenges they face.

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“…Since then, migration has been shifted from simple pull-push (Lee, 1966) toward income maximization orientation (Harris and Todaro, 1970;Todaro, 1980) and currently toward the new economics of labor migration under which the role of household as unity of analysis has got recognition (Stark and Bloom, 1985;Portes, 2010;King, 2012). Closely connected with household as unity of analysis, recently, the translocal livelihood has dominated recent literature on migration (Djurfeldt, 2021). Translocal livelihood conceptualized how people in different locations are emotionally, culturally, economically and socially connected (Naumann and Greiner, 2016).…”

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Does translocal vulnerability apply to labor migrants into the sesame production belt amid covid-19? Evidence from districts in Ethiopia

Abate,

Derbe Libshwork,

Mersha

2023

IJMHSC

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Purpose The outbreak of covid-19 has affected international migration and remittance and has also narrowed down the opportunities for internal labor migrants. The pandemic has also left internal migrants in a threatening situation due to the closure of job opportunities. Taking the migration of labor from the highland toward the sesame production belt into consideration, this study aims to examine the influencing factors of migration to the sesame belt amid covid-19 and ascertain the link between migration and translocal vulnerability. Design/methodology/approach The study followed a mixed approach that combines quantitative and qualitative methods. However, the quantitative approach tends to dominate due to the nature of the objectives of the study. The study was conducted in the central Gondar zone, using a cross-sectional survey design with a sample size of 150 households collected from January to March, 2021. Both descriptive and econometrics models such as binary logit model have been used. Findings Based on the study result, we came to understand that migration is part and parcel of the livelihoods of the farm household that accounts for 35% of migration status amid covid-19. Particularly, the study came to conclude that households’ decision to send family members heavily relied on their prior information and fear of transmission of the coronavirus to family members which are statistically significant. As a result, this piece of work can be a good witness for translocal vulnerability where studies are very limited in the area. For this, this study suggests that concerned bodies like social and labor affairs in consultation with the agriculture offices and bureaus at a different level and the investors in the migrant’s destination should facilitate the protection and awareness mechanisms so that the spread of covid-19 can be minimized and thereby both the migrants and the investors can be benefitted from the migrants’ work amid covid-19. Originality/value This study tries to connect the current spread of covid-19 with the translocal vulnerability context. Primarily, it empirically argued the translocal vulnerability factor is the main determinant for the farm households to send families’ labor as a livelihood diversification strategy. Very limited studies consider the translocal vulnerability implication of migration; notably to the best of the researchers’ knowledge, studies that linked covid-19 with translocal vulnerability context are scant. On top of that, many studies that link migration with covid-19 tend to be inclined to international migration with very limited attention to internal migration.

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Translocal livelihoods research and the household in the Global South – A gendered perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 49 publications

Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in Households: From Culture to Cognition

Perpetuation of Gender Inequalities in Households: From Culture to Cognition

Migration, Gender and Intergenerational Interdependence: Translocal Households Involving Older People and Migrants in Uganda

Does translocal vulnerability apply to labor migrants into the sesame production belt amid covid-19? Evidence from districts in Ethiopia

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