Privileged Daughters? Gendered Mobility among Highly Educated Chinese Female Migrants in the UK
Autor/in:
Tu, Mengwei; Xie, Kailing
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 8 (2020) 2, S 68-76
Inhalt: The one-child generation daughters born to middle-class Chinese parents enjoy the privilege of concentrated family resources and the opportunity for education overseas. We focus on the "privileged daughters" who have studied abroad and remained overseas as professionals. Using three cases of post-student female migrants who were of different ages and at different life stages, we situate their socioeconomic mobility in the context of intergenerational relationships and transnational social space. Drawing on further interview data from the same project we argue that, although the "privileged daughters" have achieved geographical mobility and upward social mobility, through education and a career in a Western country, their life choices remain heavily influenced by their parents in China. Such findings highlight the transnationally transferred gendered burden among the relatively "elite" cohort, thus revealing a more nuanced gendered interpretation of transnational socioeconomic mobility.
The Migration of Career-Starter Hungarian Graduate Women to the Countries of the European Union
Autor/in:
Czibere, Ibolya; Schranz, Edit
Quelle: Social Sciences, 9 (2020) 5, S 1-19
Inhalt: In our paper, we present the reasons for and characteristics of the increasing migration of graduate women, mostly undertaken alone. In Hungary, in the context of the acceleration of migration experienced after 2010, two phenomena can be observed: (1) Due to positive selection a high proportion of well-trained young graduates have moved to live abroad; (2) over the past few years, a higher proportion of those migrating for work have been female graduates in their maternity age. Thus, not only is the process of weakening of the male dominance among the emigrants clearly perceptible, but a Hungary-related version of the feminization of the brain drain phenomenon due to the labor market demand of the host countries is also evolving. In this study, we examine the motivations of graduate women to work abroad and the success of their integration. Our qualitative study examines motivations for migration among college graduate females, who are just starting their career. We have explored social forces that influence emigration among the highest educated. We have also studied integration and assimilation strategies among Hungarian women working in the European Union. Our findings contribute to and extend research that focuses on push and pull factors in migration, as well as the interpretation of gender differences in migration, especially among the highest educated.
Schlagwörter:Mikrozensus; microcensus; Auslandstätigkeit; work abroad; Migration; migration; woman; Arbeitsmigration; labor migration; Brain Drain; brain drain; EU; EU; Ungar; Hungarian; Abwanderung; out-migration; Fachkraft; specialist; feminization of brain drain; causes of migration
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Arbeitsmarktforschung
Building a new life and (re)making a family: Young Syrian refugee women in the Netherlands navigating between family and career
Titelübersetzung:Ein neues Leben beginnen und eine Familie (wieder)herstellen: Wie junge geflüchtete Frauen aus Syrien in den Niederlanden zwischen Familie und Beruf navigieren
Autor/in:
Ruis, Ada
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 31 (2019) 3, S 287-302
Inhalt: This article presents results of a qualitative analysis based on biographic narratives of three young, well-
educated women from Syria. They arrived in the Netherlands between 2015 and 2017 in the context of
family reunion. The central question is how young Syrian women navigate between two major projects
that ask for their agency, being family and work. It is argued that both occupational career development
and the building of a family are ‘agentic projects’ that aim to contribute to the establishment of a new life
and to regain continuity. The analyses demonstrate that both projects are closely intertwined. Agency
emerges as highly relational and intersecting with the women’s position in the life course, timing of life
events, ability to adapt career goals to the new situation, and impact of social contexts on family rela-
tions.
Schlagwörter:woman; Flüchtling; refugee; Syrien; Syria; Biographie; biography; Familienzusammenführung; family reunion; Mutterschaft; motherhood; Familie-Beruf; work-family balance; Asylpolitik; asylum policy; Integration; integration; Niederlande; Netherlands; refugee family resettlement; life course perspective; agency; displacement and gender; young refugee mothers; biographic narratives
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
A New Service Class in the Public Sector? The Role of Femonationalism in Unemployment Policies
Autor/in:
Mulinari, Paula
Quelle: Social Inclusion, 6 (2018) 4, S 36-47
Inhalt: This article aims to explore the content embedded in the figuration of ‘foreign-born unemployed women’ and how discourses of gender equality are used to create an emerging racialised service class within the Swedish public sector. Influenced by the concept of femonationalism, the article explores how the introduction of the Extra Services unemployment reforms facilitates the creation of a service class whose purpose is to make it possible for the regular workforce to continue to function despite cutbacks and the neoliberal management of professional care work in the public sector. The study identifies a shift in the discourse, where, while migrant women continue to be represented as victims in public discourses concerning unemployment, they are also represented as being lazy and unwilling to work, qualities that legitimate the need for more repressive interventions towards the group, often described as feminist interventions that will rescue migrant women and their children.
"Being beaten like a drum": Gewalt, Humanitarismus und Resilienz von Frauen in Flüchtlingslagern
Titelübersetzung:"Being beaten like a drum": violence, humanitarianism and resilience of women in refugee camps
Autor/in:
Krause, Ulrike; Schmidt, Hannah
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 10 (2018) 2, S 47-62
Inhalt: In diesem Artikel analysieren wir Gewalt gegen, humanitären Schutz für und Bewältigungsstrategien von Frauen in Flüchtlingslagern anhand empirischer Forschung in Uganda. Auf Grundlage unserer Analysen argumentieren wir, dass Frauen in Lagern häufig sexueller und genderbasierter Gewalt ausgesetzt sind, obwohl humanitäre Organisationen Maßnahmen ergreifen, um sie zu unterstützen und zu schützen. Eine kritische Bewertung dieser Maßnahmen zeigt, dass Frauen meist durch Vulnerabilität definiert werden, wodurch ihr Handlungsvermögen vernachlässigt wird. Hingegen belegt die soziale Realität, dass Frauen diverse Strategien ergreifen, um Herausforderungen zu bewältigen und zu ihrem eigenen Schutz beizutragen.
Inhalt: In this article, we explore violence against women as well as their humanitarian protection and coping strategies in refugee camps based on empirical research conducted in Uganda. We argue that women often face sexual and gender-based violence in camps despite the measures humanitarian organizations take to support and protect them. A critical assessment of these measures reveals that women are mostly defined by vulnerabilities, which deprives them of agency. However, in stark contrast to vulnerability ascriptions, social reality shows that women use diverse strategies to cope with the challenges they face and to protect themselves.
Schlagwörter:woman; Flüchtling; refugee; Notunterkunft; emergency shelter; Gewalt; violence; sexueller Missbrauch; sexual abuse; Resilienz; resilience; Flüchtlingsrecht; refugee law; gender-specific factors; Uganda; Uganda; Ostafrika; East Africa; Flüchtlingslager; sexuelle und genderbasierte Gewalt; humanitärer Flüchtlingsschutz; refugee camps; sexual and gender-based violence; humanitarian refugee protection
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Gender role changes and their impacts on Syrian women refugees in Berlin in light of the Syrian crisis
Autor/in:
Habib, Nisren
Quelle: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH; Berlin (Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Migration und Diversität, Abteilung Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung, SP VI 2018-101), 2018. 33 S
Inhalt: Gender roles of Syrian women started to shift in 2011, in light of the Syrian conflict. This shift was a response to the difficult situations which Syrian women faced inside Syria as well as in the neighboring countries to which they fled in the attempt to find safer living conditions. However, the uncertain situation and the precarious working and living conditions in Syria and the neighboring countries forced many Syrian women and families to flee to Europe, with the highest number to Germany, facing the challenge of a new culture and new social norms. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate if and how the gender roles of Syrian women who fled to Berlin, Germany, have shifted. Using semi-structured interviews conducted in the period July - December 2016, the study illustrates the challenges and opportunities they face, both as women and as refugees, and in how far these affect their gender roles.
Schlagwörter:Syrien; Syria; Flüchtling; refugee; woman; Integration; integration; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; gender-specific factors; soziale Norm; social norm; politische Partizipation; political participation; Federal Republic of Germany; gender roles changing
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Care-Arbeit politisieren: Herausforderungen der (Selbst-)Organisierung von migrantischen 24h-Betreuerinnen
Titelübersetzung:Politicize care work: challenges of the (self-)organizing of migrant 24h-caregivers
Autor/in:
Schilliger, Sarah; Schilling, Katharina
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 26 (2017) 2, S 101-116
Inhalt: "In Privathaushalten von pflegebedürftigen Menschen hat sich in Deutschland und der Schweiz in den letzten Jahren ein Niedriglohnsektor etabliert, der stark vergeschlechtlicht und ethnisiert ist. Zwar gibt es in beiden Ländern politische und gewerkschaftliche Bestrebungen, diesen Arbeitssektor zu regulieren. Doch zeigt sich im Privathaushalt generell die Schwierigkeit, dass gesetzliche Regelungen aufgrund von starken Machthierarchien und fehlender Kontrollen häufig wenig Geltungskraft entfalten. Mobilisierungen auf internationaler Ebene demonstrieren jedoch, wie migrantische Care-Arbeiterinnen durch (Selbst)Organisation eine Verbesserung ihrer Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen erkämpfen konnten. Am Beispiel Deutschlands und der Schweiz fragen wir in unserem Beitrag nach den Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Politisierung von kommerzialisierter Care-Arbeit durch migrantische (Selbst-)Organisierung. Hierfür identifizieren wir zunächst die sich zeigenden Schwierigkeiten anhand von drei Faktorenbündeln: a) Arbeit in der privaten Sphäre des Haushalts; b) Displacement und limitiertes Citizenship im Kontext der Transmigration und c) unzureichende institutionelle Unterstützung. Wie es trotzdem zumindest auf lokaler Ebene zu einer bottom-up Mobilisierung in diesem Sektor kommen kann, arbeiten wir anschließend exemplarisch am Netzwerk Respekt@vpod in Basel heraus. Dabei identifizieren wir drei zentrale Strategien: a) das strategische Einfordern von Rechten und das Heraustreten aus der privaten Sphäre mithilfe von strategischer Prozessführung und öffentlicher Kampagnenarbeit; b) die Überwindung der migrationsbedingten Isolation durch einen Prozess des Emplacements, d.h. der alltäglichen sozialen Vernetzung in der migrantischen Community und c) die gelungene Zusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe zwischen engagierten live-in Care-Arbeiterinnen und der Gewerkschaft vpod." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In private households of elderly people in need of care, a highly gendered and ethnicized low-wage sector has emerged in Germany and Switzerland over the last few years. Despite political and trade union efforts in both countries to regulate this labor sector, there is a general difficulty to enforce legislations in private households due to strong power hierarchies and lack of controls. Mobilizations at the international level, however, demonstrate how female migrant care workers fight for the improvement of their working and living conditions through (self-)organizing. Looking at Germany and Switzerland, we investigate possibilities and challenges of the politicization of commercialized care work through migrant (self-)organizing. To this end, we first identify the difficulties that appear using three sets of factors: a) work in the private sphere of the household; b) displacement and limited citizenship in the context of transmigration and c) insufficient institutional support. Using the example of the network Respekt@vpod in Basel, we then analyze how, at least at the local level, a bottom-up mobilization in this sector is nevertheless possible. We identify three key strategies: a) the strategic demand for rights and the emergence from the private sphere through strategic law suits and public campaigning; b) overcoming the migration induced isolation by a process of emplacement, through the everyday social networking in the migrant community and c) a successful collaboration at eye level between female activist live-in care workers and the trade union." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:häusliche Pflege; home care; Privathaushalt; private household; Pflegeperson; caregiver; Niedriglohn; low wage; Prekarisierung; precariousness; Migrant; migrant; woman; Organisationen; organizations; Vernetzung; networking; Arbeitsbedingungen; working conditions; Arbeitsrecht; labor law; Gewerkschaft; trade union; Mobilisierung; mobilization; Federal Republic of Germany; Schweiz; Switzerland
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration, Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen
Partizipationsbiographien engagierter Migrantinnen: eine biographieanalytische Studie über Partizipationsprozesse im Kontext von Migration und Geschlecht
Autor/in:
Bel Adasme, Melisa
Quelle:
Inhalt: Migrantinnen engagieren sich auf vielfältiger Weise in der deutschen Gesellschaft, dies wird jedoch oft nicht oder kaum wahrgenommen. Die wenigen Studien, die sich mit Formen des Engagements von Migrantinnen beschäftigen, erklären nicht, warum Engagement ausgerechnet in einem bestimmten Bereich vollzogen wird und nicht in anderen. Genauso wenig wird etwas über die Umstände und die zeitlichen Ereignisabfolgen ausgesagt, die zum Engagement führen. Die biographische Perspektive ermöglicht es, den biographischen Partizipationsprozess, in dem sich Engagement herausbildet, in den Blick zu nehmen. So werden einerseits Migrantinnen als handelnde Akteurinnen und „Expertinnen“ wahrgenommen und ihre Ressourcen in den Vordergrund gestellt. Andererseits wird sichtbar, dass Engagement nur dann zustande kommt, wenn es zu der Lebenssituation und den jeweiligen biografischen Präferenzen „passt“. Dank dieser Perspektive können die partizipationsbiographischen Potenziale und Ressourcen, die sich prozesshaft in Wechselwirkung mit gesellschaftlichen Strukturen entwickeln und entfalten, in ihrer Entstehung betrachtet und analysiert werden.