Making and Remaking the Transnational: Of Boundaries, Social Spaces and Social Mechanisms
Autor/in:
Faist, Thomas
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 132), 2015. 29 S
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Inhalt: There is now a third generation of transnational scholarship, which goes beyond the analysis of cross-border ties and looks at the genesis, reproduction and change of boundaries in social spaces, both within and across nation-state borders. This analysis proceeds in five steps. The first describes three generations and directions of transnational scholarship. The second part introduces the more specific concepts of transnationalization and transnationality. At the centre of the third part is a comparison of transnational and global and world approaches. A transnational lens looks at how boundaries in cross-border settings evolve and change. The fourth part focuses on the concepts of boundary and social space. The perspective is process-oriented and shows how borders and boundaries are redrawn in a period of intense restructuration of capital, changing geopolitical constellations and new constellations of cultural diversity. In order to move towards causal analysis of boundary change, the fifth part uses a case study to consider the social mechanisms operative in the (un)making of boundaries along diverse characteristics, such as religion, class, ethnicity, and gender. The question for future research is to integrate various (spatial) scales of analysis to arrive at a better understanding of changing forms of social inequality across borders.
Schlagwörter:sozialer Raum; social space; Stipendium; scholarship; Staatsgrenze; national border; Transnationalität; transnationality; Transnationalisierung; transnationalization; Globalisierung; globalization; Geopolitik; geopolitics; kulturelle Vielfalt; cultural diversity; soziale Klasse; social class; Ethnizität; ethnicity; gender; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
The Male Au Pair: "Doing Masculinity" by Performing Housework and Providing Childcare
Autor/in:
Rohde, Caterina
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 129), 2014. 20 S
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Inhalt: Male au pairs responding to the "call for more men" in private and professional childcare have gained some popularity in recent years. Au pairs, both male and female, are positioned in hybrid work settings in that they not only perform housework and provide childcare, but living with families also assume roles of family members. Drawing on the concept of "doing gender", the article compares how the position of male and female au pairs is constructed by allocating specific duties to them, and how men's suitability for au pairing is legitimized. It is shown that, because a gendered division of family work continues to be the prerequisite for "doing gender", male au pairs perform only housework that is compatible with hegemonic masculinity, and that this is inherent in their main duty of functioning as male role models to aid in the socialization of the families' children when the children's fathers fail to fulfill this role.
Schlagwörter:Männlichkeit; masculinity; Hausarbeit; housework; Kinderbetreuung; child care; Auslandstätigkeit; work abroad; Rollenbild; role image; Rollenverteilung; role distribution; gender-specific factors; familiale Sozialisation; family socialization; junger Erwachsener; young adult; Doing Gender; doing gender; Gender; gender
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Big Questions, Real World Puzzles, and Enduring Challenges: A Tribute to Aristide R. Zolberg
Autor/in:
Faist, Thomas
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 116), 2013. 7 S
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Schlagwörter:Migrationsforschung; migration research; Migration; migration; Transnationalität; transnationality; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Ethnizität; ethnicity; Gender; gender; soziale Klasse; social class; Heterogenität; heterogeneity; Aristide R. Zolberg
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Transnational Social Protection: An Emerging Field of Study
Autor/in:
Faist, Thomas
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 113), 2013.
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Inhalt: How do the efforts at social protection by cross-border migrants impact upon social inequalities? While the 'old' social question between workers and capitalists was addressed within the frames of national welfare states and social policies from the late nineteenth century onwards, the 'new' social question - running along diverse lines of inequalities, such as gender, class, ethnicity and religion - has implications far beyond national borders since flows of persons, goods, capital and services are transnational. Migrations are of particular relevance for understanding the transnational social question because they link the disparate and fragmented worlds of unequal life chances and social protection. Of particular interest is the question of how cross-border social protection involving migrants results in the reinforcement of existing inequalities, e.g. between regions and within households, and creates new lines of inequalities. This state of affairs necessitates a rethinking of national social citizenship and its significance for the legitimation of social inequalities.
Schlagwörter:Transnationalität; transnationality; soziale Ungleichheit; social inequality; Migration; migration; soziale Frage; social issue; soziale Sicherung; social security; Wohlfahrtsstaat; welfare state; Gender; gender; soziale Klasse; social class; Ethnizität; ethnicity; Religion; religion
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, soziale Sicherung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Auf der Suche nach dem guten Leben: Geschlechtstypische Wanderungen in Deutschland
Autor/in:
Milbert, Antonia; Sturm, Gabriele; Walther, Antje
Quelle: Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR) im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (BBR); Bonn (BBSR-Analysen KOMPAKT, 04/2013), 2013. 20 S
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Inhalt: "Wo bleiben die Frauen?" "Frauen verzweifelt gesucht" - so lauteten in jüngster Zeit Schlagzeilen in den überregionalen Medien. Das Thema der Beiträge: Junge, gut ausgebildete Frauen verlassen vor allem die ländlichen Regionen in Ostdeutschland. Ihr Ziel: die Großstädte im Westen. Zurück bleiben die Männer, weitaus weniger mobil und mit geringerer formaler Bildung. Überzeichnen die Medien die Situation? Wie groß ist die Abwanderung in den vergangenen Jahren tatsächlich gewesen? Inwieweit unterscheidet sich das Wanderungsverhalten von Frauen und Männern? Welche Motive liegen der Abwanderung zugrunde? Die Analyse widmet sich diesen und weiteren Fragen. Ausgewertet wurden umfangreiche Daten aus der Raumbeobachtung des BBSR.
Schlagwörter:gender; Geschlechterverteilung; sex ratio; Federal Republic of Germany; Abwanderung; out-migration; Binnenwanderung; internal migration; Aggregatdatenanalyse; aggregate data analysis; Gemeinde; municipality; Siedlungsstruktur; settlement pattern; Altersgruppe; age group; Mobilität; mobility; Bildungsmobilität; educational mobility; Berufsmobilität; occupational mobility; Mobilitätsbereitschaft; mobility readiness; Mobilitätsforschung; mobility research; Befragung; survey; Motiv; motive; Modernisierung; modernization; Arbeitsteilung; division of labor; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Zeitreihe; time series; Raum; zone; Observation; surveillance
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Raumplanung und Regionalforschung, Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Polish "handymen" in Germany: an example for the neglected "male" side of commodified reproductive work?
Autor/in:
Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 109), 2012. 10 S
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Schlagwörter:labor migration; role distribution; Betreuung; Pole; Pole; Hausarbeit; Rollenverteilung; role image; housework; Migrant; Arbeitsmigration; Federal Republic of Germany; social inequality; man; Rollenbild; labor market; Arbeitsmarkt; gender; care; migrant; Gender; child care; Mann; Kinderbetreuung; gender-specific factors; soziale Ungleichheit
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht