Triandafyllidou, A. (ed.), Handbook of Migration and Globalisation, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018
What does it mean to talk about 'gender' in relation to migration? When confronted by this questi... more What does it mean to talk about 'gender' in relation to migration? When confronted by this question, scholars and students who already know what 'migration' means are puzzled by how they should put this together with an equally vast realm of concepts and facts – those that consider what gender is. Or, to be more precise: what gender does. For this purpose, in this chapter I am providing an overview of what gender does to migration, illustrating some of the ways in which taking a gender perspective changes the way we understand the link between migration and globalisation, and how gender-based differences and inequalities affect (and are affected) by global migrations. I will do this, first of all, by introducing the relevance of gender issues to migration debates, and thus speak of the 'feminisation of migration'. This, I contend, can be seen at a quantitative and qualitative level. Therefore, the chapter delves into a specific dimension of the feminisation of migration by taking the case of domestic and care workers to discuss issues such as the 'international division of reproductive labour' and the 'global care chain'. In the second part of the chapter I offer an historical overview of the scholarship that has developed around the gender–migration–globalisation nexus in the last 40 years. At the end, I outline other possible directions for research in this field. WHAT DOES GENDER DO? THE FEMINISATION OF MIGRATION The overlap between the questions of gender, migration and globalisation gives rise to a complex discussion whose key terms have many different definitions and where facts are interpreted in often contrasting ways. My suggestion is to approach this complexity by distinguishing between a quantitative and a qualitative dimension in which gender and global migrations enter in relation. At the quantitative level, the main questions are: how many women are migrating? How many men? And how have their numbers changed over time? It is important to emphasise how, at this level, gender is considered to speak of the binary division between men and women as based on a set of biological and physical features differently ascribed to male and female models, thus overlooking cases of transgender or intersexual people and with no distinctions on the basis of age, sexual orientation and so forth. At this level, what is of interest are usually the numbers of migrant women, their relative proportion to those of men, their nationalities and then, in more detail, what are their destinations, occupations , marital status and so on. At this quantitative level, we speak of the 'feminisation of migration' to describe the increase in the percentage of women in international migration – which, for instance
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With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once home and workplace, this volume is organised into sections that deal with the subjectivities of employers and their relationships with their employees in the home; the re-organisation of welfare and care arrangements at state level; and the wider area of migrant domestic and care work, with the transformation of the au pair scheme.
Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.
With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once home and workplace, this volume is organised into sections that deal with the subjectivities of employers and their relationships with their employees in the home; the re-organisation of welfare and care arrangements at state level; and the wider area of migrant domestic and care work, with the transformation of the au pair scheme.
Bringing together the latest empirical work from across Europe, Employers, Agencies and Immigration will appeal to social scientists with interests in migration, ethnic and class relations, immigrant labour and domestic work and the sociology of the family.
L’intervista si sviluppa lungo delle linee di analisi e riflessione che rendono con efficacia l’importanza della dimensione di genere nel movimento nazionalista eritreo e nelle migrazioni di tipo postcoloniale e diasporico, così come nel processo di memorizzazione che le ha accompagnate. S’illustrano inoltre la dimensione culturale e quella simbolica della relazione attuale fra popolazioni ex colonizzate ed ex colonizzatrici. Infine, quest’intervista rappresenta un contributo originale nell’ottica del ‘fare storia’ rispetto al ruolo particolare che hanno avuto le donne eritree nei periodi di transizione politica e nelle connessioni fra Eritrea, Etiopia e Italia.
The narratives of these women emphasize the central role of resentment, i.e., the emotional inheritance of past violence, hatred, and domination which permeates the interactions between the descendants of the colonizers and of the colonized, in their sentiments and imagination. Resentment is thus a legacy that is passed from one generation to another, remaining alive through time and eventually physically travelling with those who migrate, accompanying them on their journeys.
Importantly, the notion of resentment has the capacity to explain the attitudes of the formerly dominant and dominated alike. As I argue in this chapter, on the one hand, it allows for explaining xenophobic tendencies amongst white Dutch people as propelled by feelings of resentment expressed in colonial nostalgia and regretful tones against migrants; and, on the other hand, resentment can be seen as part of the everyday experiences of Afro–Surinamese and other postcolonial migrants, whose inclusion in Dutch society is haunted by the presence of a collective memory of slavery. Thus, resentment offers a powerful entry point for understanding that a postcolonial transition for Europe does not mean simply overcoming colonial Europe, but instead is a process through which this past is continuously negotiated, discussed, and re–articulated in new ideas and political practices.
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Questa la scritta, corredata da svastica e croce celtica, apparsa nei bagni di una biblioteca dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia il giorno 6 marzo 20181. La scritta si riferisce a uno degli ultimi episodi di attacco cruento da parte di italiani verso persone di origine africana. Il razzismo verso persone di pelle nera in Italia non è cosa nuova2 e mostra un intero repertorio di immagini, convinzioni, rappresentazioni e stereotipi che accompagnano il carattere violento del rapporto fra persone bianche e nere, nelle sue forme quotidiane, ma specialmente nei casi estremi di aggressioni cruente. Dopo gli spari di Macerata, con Luca Traini che ha ferito 6 persone, e ancor più dopo l’omicidio di Idy Diene a Firenze da parte di Roberto Pirrone, chiunque fosse ancorato all’immagine degli ‘italiani brava gente’ dovrà definitivamente ricredersi......
Table of Contents:
Sabrina MARCHETTI, Vincenza PERILLI, and Elena PETRICOLA (Editors of the volume) Introduction
Barbara BIGLIA and Dominique GRISARD If I can’t dance, it ain't my revolution": Queer-Feminist Inquiries into Pink Bloque's Revolutionary Strategies
Norma Claire MORUZZI Gender and the Revolutions: Critique Interrupted
Valeria RIBEIRO COROSSACZ Feminism and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean
Silke HEUMANN Gender, Sexuality, and Politics: Rethinking the Relationship Between Feminism and Sandinismo in Nicaragua
Cesare DI FELICIANTONIO Liberation or (Neoliberal) Freedom? Exploring the Evolution of Lesbian and Gay Urban Spaces in the Global North Peter DRUCKER Gay Normality and Queer Transformation
Elisabetta DONINI Feminism, Science, and the Feminist Critique of Science
Emilie BRETON, Sandra JEPPSEN, Anna KRUZYNSKI, and Rachel SARRASIN Anti-racist, Queer, and Radical Feminisms in the Quebec Antiauthoritarian Movement
Elena BIAGINI Family Problems: Debates over Coupling, Marriage, and Family within the Italian Lesbian Community, 1990s
Eileen BORIS Afterword, or Dreams of Revolution
The volume is accompanied by a selection of digital sources and documentation websites, as well as downloadable images and publications that relate to the theme of this volume. These sources are organised in the sections TODAY and YESTERDAY
In questo numero di «Zapruder» la questione è tuttavia ribaltata. Innanzitutto non si parlerà di identità come qualcosa di fisso, che precede gli individui, da erigere come un muro o una bandiera per preservare intatta la “comunità”. Tanto più che per il nostro paese è necessario distinguere fra la dimensione statuale, costruita dall’alto, dell’«identità nazionale» e quella antropologica, a maglie larghe, dell’«identità italiana» (come suggerisce Vittorio Vidotto, Italiani/e, 2005). Guarderemo quindi all´identità come a qualcosa di fluido, costitutivamente in movimento, superficie porosa a contatto con identità altre, le identità di un altrove in cui si arriva. In sostanza, la prospettiva non sarà quella di chi “sta”, ma di chi è in movimento e, in questo movimento, modifica le costruzioni identitarie che porta con sé e quelle che incontra. Un´identità in migrazione, quindi.
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Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights.
The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from migrants and low-income groups to racialized and rural girls and women.
Casting light on issues such as subjectification, and collective organizing on the part of a category of workers conventionally regarded as unorganizable, this ambitious volume will be invaluable for scholars, policy makers and activists alike.