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Book SynopsisThis timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production. Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive contributions from leading international experts on gender and global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories, families and working cultures in which local, regional, national, and global economies are embedded.
Examining recent migratory flows and changing migration corridors across the globe, the Companion offers critical insights into the wider dynamics that compel people to migrate. Chapters address key topics relating to gender and global migration, from global cities and border regions, internal displacements, and humanitarian risks, to the changing face of care chains and labour, pandemic mobilities, expulsions from climate change and the weight of critical historical colonial studies in contemporary feminisms. The volume further explores extractivism, colonial images, the agrifood industry, qualified labour, remittances, cross-border trade, and extreme violence. Advancing a compelling range of forward-looking perspectives, this dynamic Companion establishes a novel agenda for future research on gender and global migration.
Integrating empirical case studies with cutting-edge theory, The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration will be an invaluable resource for a multidisciplinary audience of scholars across sociology, anthropology, geography, economics and political science, as well as migration and gender studies. Its themes will also be of significant interest to policymakers, administrators and grassroots organisations involved in emerging topics in migration studies.
Trade Review‘Firmly anchored in critical analysis of women’s migration under 1980s neoliberal globalization and stretching into twenty-first century displacements, violence and migration-care regimes, this volume brings together inquiries spanning across parts of Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. A must read for those seeking new approaches to gender and migration.’ -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California, US
‘The editors, both renowned migration and gender scholars, have assembled a hugely impressive array of authors to rethink the global narratives which structure our understanding of gender and migration. Especially innovative is the focus on non-Western settings wherein are explored a wide range of intersecting themes: migration, mobilities, displacement, gender, human rights, development, transnational care, and many more. This is a must-read for students of gendered migrations.’ -- Russell King, University of Sussex, UK
Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration 1 Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen PART I BACKGROUND 2 A state-of-the-art review and future directions in gender and migration research 24 Laura Lamas-Abraira 3 Revisiting the gender, migration and development nexus through the circulation of assets approach 38 Laura Oso 4 The absent image of women: lacunae in the legacy of French colonial mobilities 49 Natalia Ribas-Mateos PART II LATIN AMERICA 5 Extractivism, forced gendered migration and resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean 84 María del Carmen Villarreal and Enara Muñoz 6 Women and punishment in Abya Yala 97 Elisabet Almeda Samaranch, Clara Camps Calvet and Dino Di Nella 7 Scientific mobilities in the twentieth century: Gustaf Bolinder’s photographs of indigenous women in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 109 Alexandra Martínez 8 Embodying ethnic and labor relations: indigenous women and US– Mexico labor mobility circuits in the agrifood industry 124 Laura Velasco Ortiz 9 Desértica feminista: collision of theories, identity, and [im]migrant– border encounters 133 Eugenia Hernández Sánchez and Cynthia Bejarano 10 Women’s mobilities: a blacklight on gender and care in the Amazon 147 José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Fabio Magalhães Candotti and Flávia Melo 11 Lack of opportunities for indigenous young women in Guatemala: forced mobility and absence of social protection systems 161 Aracely Martínez Rodas, Ángel del Valle and Ramón Zamora PART III ASIA 12 A study of the lives of internally displaced women after the Fukushima disaster 172 Anne Gonon 13 Chinese internal migration dynamics as a way of understanding globalization and gender 180 Amelia Sáiz López 14 Shifting migrant categories and recast boundaries in China: transnational women in family migration 187 Chieh Hsu 15 Qualified Brazilian migrant women in Dubai: constraints, agency, and change in the migratory process 196 Raquel Nazário Motta, Marcos Linhares Goes and Jorge Malheiros 16 In the eye of the storm: Afghan women and girls navigating displacement 211 Mandana Hendessi 17 Gender conflict and forced migration in India: human rights perspectives 221 Rita Machanda 18 Remittances, migration and economic abuse: ‘invisible in plain sight’ 232 Supriya Singh and Jasvinder Sidhu PART IV AFRICA 19 Women and cross-border trade between Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 240 Asaf Augusto and Lesley Braun 20 The Anglophone crisis and migratory patterns in Cameroon: some social and economic implications for women 253 Tassah Ivo Tawe and Henri Yambene Bomono 21 Humanitarian tropes in the Casamance: presumptions about gender-based violence in conflict and displacement contexts 264 Markus Rudolf PART V THE MEDITERRANEAN 22 Missing in the Mediterranean: a perspective from Tunisian mothers 277 Sofia Stimmatini and Constance De Gourcy 23 Origins of extreme violence in Palermo: health (infectious) impact of the trans-Saharan/Mediterranean route for women on the move 286 Tullio Prestileo and Natalia Ribas-Mateos 24 Gender and humanitarian issues in transitional shelter processes: the cases of Syrian refugees and displaced communities by the earthquake in Haiti 300 Patricia Muñiz and Luciano G. Alfaya 25 Sub-Saharan and Syrian women’s embodying migration experiences in Casablanca 310 Fadma Ait Mous, Sana Benbelli and Sarah Ettallab PART VI EUROPE 26 Globalization and health: gender issues in temporary agricultural work (Huelva) 323 Angels Escrivà 27 Squatting in a “home”: intersectional struggles of migrant women in Lucha y Siesta (Rome) 333 Chiara Denaro Index
