Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries: Vol. I: Gender on the Move: 10 (Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur", 10) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3810034932 ISBN 13: 9783810034939

Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2003

Synopsis

11 tions involving women and men and their relations to one another. Gender is an important organising principle of social relations as it structures every aspect of human interaction on a personal or household level, in the local community, and in international relations. Who will be socialised to become vulnerable or strong? Who will have property and political power? Who will be excluded from privileges? Who is likely to become mobile or denied the possibility to move? Our concern in this collection of articles was not to merely make women in migration visible, but to show that patterns, causes, experiences and social im­ pacts of migration are gendered. This is still not self-evident. As long as the male bias persists - the pervasive assumption that the inter­ national migrant is a young, economically motivated male, ignoring the reality of the composition of migration streams world-wide and influencing policy making - the compensatory approach which concentrates on women as the pri­ mary subject of studies will be necessary.

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About the Author

Dr. Mirjana Morokvasic, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Professor, Université Paris, France, and Institute of Gender Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan;
Umut Erel M.A., publication of articles on cultural hybridity, citizeship and racism in Germany and migration and mothering, she was visiting scholar (junior faculty) at IFU; Kyoko Shinozaki, DAAD scholar at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, PhD candidate in sociology at Ochanomizu University in Tokyo

From the Back Cover

The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates as well as unique learning and teaching experiences of the Project Area Migration, the International Women's University. While pointing to historical continuities, it is shown how contemporary ways of bridging time and space are shaped by the new opportunities - or lack of them - related to the process of globalization. This shaping is gendered. Gendering migration paves the way for further intersectional analysis. Vol. I critically examinesmobility, globalization and migration policy from a gender perspective. It includes case studies on internal and international migratory processes inand from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Furthermore it makes an important contribution to the issue of agency and empowerment emerging from migrant women's experience.

Edition details

• Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3810034932
• ISBN 13: 9783810034939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Morokvasic-Müller M., Erel Umut, Shinozaki Kyoko