Gender and Migration: A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Migration Dynamics: 3 (CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies, 3) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9462701636 ISBN 13: 9789462701632

Publisher: Leuven University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The impact of gender on migration processes

Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migration gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.

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Contributors: Marianna Bacci Tamburlini (Universidade de Lisboa), Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp), Kitti Baracsi (University of Pécs), Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw), Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp), Kenneth Hemmerechts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Alexandra Parrs (University of Antwerp), Ferruccio Pastore (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione FIERI Torino), Alina Poghosyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia), Ilse Ruyssen (Ghent University), Sara Salomone (Ghent University and UNU-CRIS), Romina Seminario Luna (Lausanne University), Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), Lore Van Praag (University of Antwerp), Thomas Verbruggen (University of Antwerp), Zeynep Zümer Batur (University of Antwerp)

About this title

About the Authors

Christiane Timmerman (†) was professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS) at the University of Antwerp.

Maria Lucinda Fonseca is Professor and President of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) at the Universidade de Lisboa and scientific coordinator of the research group MIGRARE – Migration, Spaces and Societies at the Centre for Geographical Studies (CEG) at the same institution.

Lore Van Praag is the director of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies at the University of Antwerp.

Sónia Pereira is postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning (IGOT) at the Universidade de Lisboa.

From the Back Cover

Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, 'Gender and Migration' gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9462701636
• ISBN 13: 9789462701632
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Timmerman Christiane, Fonseca Maria Lucinda, Van Praag Lore, Pereira Sónia