Becoming women: awareness of migration and double loyalty
Autor/in:
Gigliotti, Miriam; Odasso, Laura
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 131-146
Inhalt: "Based on two case studies of adolescent daughters of migrant and mixed families in Bavaria (Germany) and in Veneto (Italy), the paper aims to study how the daughters solve the conflicting interactions between the contents of the transmission and of the socialization. Focused mostly on gendered interactions and on a sense of belonging, the reflection investigates if and how structural elements (e.g.: family configuration, national context and migration trajectories of parents) impact on continuity and discontinuity in passing on values and other sets of information. The observation of 'status passages' and 'socio-ecological transitions' in and between private and public spheres thanks to the analysis of life histories are suitable to grasp the specific effects of handing down and its interaction with the socialization over generations. This approach entails the articulation of 'time' (namely the interplay between past and present) and 'space' (namely the private and public spheres) allowing retracing the outline of the 'generational work' that each family performs consciously and unconsciously. In different geographical and socio-cultural contexts as well as in different family patterns, parenting and adolescent dynamics reveal common features. By pointing out the restructuration that adolescence imposes in life courses, we show that it is the meaning given to the parental experience of migration that entails specific form of 'loyalty' due to emotional and juridical (de)nationalized belonging, as well as to previous experiences of socialization and discrimination. The originality of the reflection is connected to the patterns of the families compared. The authors widen the concept of migration classically employed in academia introducing the innovative concept of 'migration of contact'." (author's abstract)
Experiences of migration as a space for reflection: renegotiating gender roles in family relationships
Autor/in:
Dudt, Muriel; Kempf, Andreas Oskar; Satola, Agnieszka
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 97-113
Inhalt: "Based on biographical narrative interviews with three migrant women, the article discusses how migration experiences can lead to a reflection of gender roles. In the three cases, there are various motivations for migration, different family arrangements and work experiences throughout the migration process, and also a change of roles of the women within their families. For the interview partners, the access to material resources achieved partly under great sacrifice and the possibility to compare different life contexts and gender regimes triggered an ambivalent process of reflection on gender relations. Their reorganization of gender relations can be rather incomplete or require strong legitimization upon return; it can also be transmitted as a project for the next generation to complete." (author's abstract)
Three women in a city: crossing borders and negotiating national belonging
Autor/in:
Pape, Elise; Takeda, Ayumi; Guhlich, Anna
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 39-56
Inhalt: "The major theoretical literature has considered the concept of nation primarily from a macro level. This article explores the question of national belonging departing from an individual's point of view, more precisely from the life story of three migrant women. Migration and transnational practices have challenged the perception of the homogeneity of nations, questioning the idea of fixed boundaries, and showing how different national and social forms of belonging may develop simultaneously through migration experience. Drawing on biographical interviews conducted with three migrant women, Amina El Asri, Gule Yildiz and Zuzana Svitá, the present analysis focusses on the construction of national belonging of the women in an intersectional perspective. Mrs. El Asri, Mrs. Yildiz and Mrs. Svitá originate from different countries (respectively Morocco, Turkey and Czechia). They have different social origins and ages, but share the same sex, their residence in the same city in West Germany and the fact that they all have children. The analysis reveals the profound impact of the socio-historical contexts the women come from on their construction of national belonging, but also of age and of transmission processes to their children. It is mainly through passing on their mother tongue and reshaping their conception of national belonging over time that the women manage to establish strong ties to their children, and contribute, by articulating different lines of belonging, to the redefinition of (trans)nation building processes." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Migration; migration; Migrant; migrant; woman; Nation; nation; nationale Identität; national identity; Identitätsbildung; identity formation; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; group membership; gender-specific factors; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Familie; family; Generation; generation; soziale Herkunft; social background; Bindung; commitment; Federal Republic of Germany; Biographie; biography; biographische Methode; biographical method
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Migration
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 11-23
Inhalt: "In this paper we discuss the concept of transnational biographies in migration studies. We use a biographical case study from the relatively new research field of advancement through education to explore that a transnational biography is not just a product of subjectivity but also a way of gaining access to invisible but nonetheless objective structures of transnational migration spaces. Our thesis is that the discovery and use of a transnational European educational space made it possible for second generation migrants in Germany to circumvent the exclusionary mechanisms of the German education system much more effectively than through unconditional assimilation into that system." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Migration; migration; Biographie; biography; Transnationalität; transnationality; Arbeitsmigration; labor migration; Assimilation; assimilation; soziale Integration; social integration; Bildungsverlauf; course of education; Bildungsniveau; level of education; Migrant; migrant; zweite Generation; second generation; Bildungschance; educational opportunity; beruflicher Aufstieg; career advancement; Federal Republic of Germany; Migrationsforschung; migration research; Forschungsansatz; research approach
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie
Erwerbsbeteiligung und Einstellungen zur Familie von türkischen Migrantinnen im Generationenvergleich
Titelübersetzung:Labour force participation and family attitudes of first and second generation Turkish migrant women
Autor/in:
Milewski, Nadja
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 25 (2013) 1, S 53-74
Inhalt: "Die Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung von Frauen mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland ist geringer als die anderer Migrantengruppen und als die von Frauen ohne Migrationshintergrund. Diese Studie untersucht mit Daten des Generations and Gender Survey (2005/2006), inwiefern sich Frauen der ersten und zweiten Migrantengenerationen hinsichtlich ihrer Erwerbsbeteiligung unterscheiden und welche Faktoren dafür ursächlich sind. In Einklang mit der Humankapitaltheorie lässt sich für die zweite Generation eine stark gesteigerte Erwerbsbeteiligung feststellen: Während in der ersten Generation nur etwa 34 Prozent der Frauen einer Beschäftigung nachgehen, beteiligen sich rund 63 Prozent in der zweiten Generation am Arbeitsmarkt. Besondere Berücksichtigung erfährt der Sozialkapitalansatz bzw. Aspekte intergenerationaler Transmission und Solidarität. Demnach übt - neben Bildung und Familienstand - eine Erwerbstätigkeit der Mutter einen Einfluss auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Tochter aus, und stärker egalitäre Genderrolleneinstellungen begünstigen eine Erwerbstätigkeit." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The extent of labour force participation of women with a Turkish migration background in Germany is lower than that of women of other ethnic origins or that of non-migrant women. In this study, we focus on a within-group comparison of the labour force participation among Turkish women. Using data of the Generations and Gender Survey (2005/ 2006), we distinguish between first and second immigrant generations. The study pays special attention to both the human and social capital approach and aspects of intergenerational transmission and solidarity between generations. In line with the human capital theory, a strong increase in labour force participation can be noted among women belonging to the second migrant generation: Whereas only about 34 per cent of first generation immigrants participate in the workforce, the share among the second generation amounts to about 60 per cent. In addition to family status and education, mothers' employment is found to increase the likelihood of the daughter's participation in the workforce. Also, more egalitarian gender role attitudes favour a higher degree of employment." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Federal Republic of Germany; Türke; Turk; Migrant; migrant; Migration; migration; Migrationspolitik; migration policy; Erwerbsarbeit; gainful work; Erwerbsbeteiligung; labor force participation; Handlungsorientierung; action orientation; Wertorientierung; value-orientation; Generation; generation; Generationenverhältnis; Intergenerational relations; Arbeitswelt; world of work
SSOAR Kategorie:Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Migration
Milieus, Geschlecht, Migration: zur gesellschaftlichen Organisation von Arbeit bei SpätaussiedlerInnen und türkeistämmigen Deutschen
Titelübersetzung:Milieus, gender, migration: social organization of work among late migrants and Germans of Turkish origin
Autor/in:
König, Andrea; Meise, Stephan
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 22 (2013) 1, S 115-123
Inhalt: Im Beitrag wird die Tragfähigkeit des Milieubegriffs durch einen empirischen Zugang zur Lebenswirklichkeit von Migranten in Deutschland aufgezeigt. Am Beispiel von Spätaussiedlern und türkeistämmigen Deutschen gehen die Verfasser der Frage nach, wie die grundlegenden sozialen Strukturkategorien Milieu, Geschlecht und Migration im Bereich der gesellschaftlichen Organisation von Arbeit in Deutschland mit Teilhabechancen von Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund zusammenhängen. Aufbauend auf den Ergebnissen einer eigenen Studie "Migration - Teilhabe - Milieus", in der unterschiedliche soziale Milieus mit Migrationshintergrund ermittelt und die jeweiligen sozialen und politischen Partizipationschancen von Migranten erforscht worden sind, nehmen sie zwei Aspekte in den Blick: Erstens beschreiben sie von Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund geteilte Benachteiligungen auf dem deutschen Erwerbsarbeitsmarkt. Zweitens explorieren sie, welche milieuspezifischen Unterschiede zwischen den befragten Migranten im Kontext geschlechtsspezifischer Arbeitsteilung bestehen und inwiefern das Geschlechterverhältnis in den verschiedenen ermittelten Milieus unterschiedlich ausgeprägt ist. Da die befragten Migranten vorwiegend in heterosexuellen Paarkonstellationen leben, fokussieren sie sowohl auf Frauen als auch auf Männer und nehmen deren soziale Positionierungen ebenso wie deren milieuspezifische Grundhaltungen zu Geschlechterfragen in den Blick. (ICB2)
Schlagwörter:Federal Republic of Germany; Migrant; migrant; Migration; migration; Migrationspolitik; migration policy; Spätaussiedler; late migrant; Türke; Turk; gender; gender-specific factors; familiale Sozialisation; family socialization; Familie; family; Arbeitsorganisation; work organization; soziale Differenzierung; social differentiation; soziales Milieu; social milieu
SSOAR Kategorie:Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration
Post-Socialist Fathers 'At Home' and 'Away from Home' in 'Old Europe': Facing the Challenge through Masculine Identity Talk
Autor/in:
Pajumets, Marion; Hearn, Jeff
Quelle: Studies of Transition States and Societies, 4 (2012) 1, S 31-47
Inhalt: "This article focuses on those Estonian male migrants to ‘Old Europe’ who spend most of their time in the domestic realm as caring fathers and supportive spouses to their wives, who are meanwhile advancing their transnational careers. In this context, masculine identity talk can be understood in terms of strategies employed in response to the challenge to the men’s masculinity that this atypical life choice is likely to entail. Identity is viewed in this article as a processual phenomenon that is relentlessly, although not always deliberately, (re)formulated in discourse, rather than determined by the assigned social roles. Analysis of in-depth interviews reveals that there are varied discourses in use that efficiently reconstruct the interviewees’ sense of personal significance. Interestingly, men predominantly combine ‘alternative’ discourses (‘caring father’, ‘supportive spouse’, ‘civilised adult’), which potentially undermine Estonian idealised masculinity, with the ‘conservative’ discourses (‘professional man’, ‘well-off ’), that reinforce the Estonian male norm. Men draw on a range of potentially oppositional and conflicting resources for constructing masculinity, without much reflexive selection from their part. Hence, the discourses men engage in position the men as much as the men appear to consciously position themselves in the discourses. This poststructuralist account of identity is located within a more structural historical context of transition and change in contemporary Europe." (author's abstract)
Draußen vor der Tür: Exklusion auf dem Berliner Wohnungsmarkt
Titelübersetzung:Outside the front door: exclusion on the housing market in Berlin
Autor/in:
Barwick, Christine
Quelle: WZB-Mitteilungen, (2011) 134, S 13-15
Inhalt: "Werden Menschen – etwa weil es Arbeitsabläufe erleichtert – in Kategorien eingeordnet, so kann dies zu sozialer Ungleichheit führen oder diese verstärken. Dies belegt eine Untersuchung von drei städtischen Wohnungsbaugesellschaften in Berlin. Hier stellte sich ganz konkret die Frage: Wird jeder Wohnungssuchende tatsächlich als Wohnung suchender Mensch gesehen oder primär als Einheimischer oder Migrant, als Mann oder Frau, als Christ oder Muslim – und je nach Einordnung begünstigt oder benachteiligt?"[Autorenreferat]
Inhalt: "Social inequality is (re)produced through the application of categories. If people are assigned to certain groups, this can – for example – speed up work procedures. Research in three Berlin social housing associations supports this hypothesis. The central question is: do employees of these housing associations consider applicants for housing really as human beings in search of an apartment, or are these applicants primarily seen as natives or migrants, men or women, Christians or Muslims – and are they favored or disadvantaged along these categories?"[author´s abstract]
"Alte" Männlichkeiten und "neue" Ethnizitäten: Positionierungen junger Migranten in transnationalen Räumen
Titelübersetzung:"Old" masculinities and "new" ethnicities: positions of young migrants in transnational social spaces
Autor/in:
Spies, Tina
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 3 (2011) 1, S 65-80
Inhalt: "Im Beitrag wird zunächst auf methodologischer und methodischer Ebene diskutiert, wie eine transnationale Perspektive in die eigene Forschung integriert werden kann. Dabei wird auf der Basis des Konzepts der Artikulation (Laclau/ Mouffe; Hall) ein Instrumentarium entwickelt, mit dessen Hilfe sich hybride Verortungen und deren Verstrickung und Einbettung in dominante Diskurse, 'Achsen der Ungleichheit' (Klinger/ Knapp/ Sauer) und Herrschaftsdimensionen aufzeigen lassen. Die Ergebnisse einer solchen Analyse werden anschließend am Beispiel eines Interviews vorgestellt. Der Fokus der Analyse liegt dabei auf Positionierungen, die im Kontext Männlichkeit und Migration eingenommen werden. Hier lassen sich Unterschiede finden, die zu einer Diskussion der Frage führen, in welchem Wechselverhältnis Multilokalität und Genderverhältnisse stehen." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "This article discusses - from a theoretical and empirical point of view - how to integrate a transnational perspective into research. Therefore, the concept of articulation (Laclau/ Mouffe; Hall) will be introduced to analyze hybrid positions and their interrelation with dominant discourses, 'axes of difference' (Klinger/ Knapp/ Sauer) and power relations. To show some of the results from this analysis an interview will be presented. The focus of this analysis lies on positions in the context of migration and masculinity. Here one can find differences that lead to the question of how the interrelation between transnational localization and gender relations works." (author's abstract)
SSOAR Kategorie:Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften, Migration
Quelle: Journal of Public Health, 18 (2010) 5, S 489-496
Inhalt: Aim: This study aimed to describe perceptions and experiences related to access and utilization of health care services of African and Brazilian immigrant women in Portugal. Subjects and methods: Six focus groups were conducted with 35 African and Brazilian women with low income and living in Lisbon, chosen through purposive sampling. Content analysis was undertaken through identification of themes and categories. Results: African and Brazilian women expressed different perceptions and patterns of use of health care services. Most participants pointed out several barriers to access and utilization of services related to legal issues, economic constraints or health professionals' attitudes. Conclusion: These results highlight the challenges to providing health care within a multicultural setting and the need to assure the provision of integrated and comprehensive health care services. Improving access to general health care is essential in order to minimize disadvantages from vulnerable subgroups, like immigrant women. Supporting better integration into the health system may lead to improved health outcomes.
Schlagwörter:perception; Afrikaner; Gesundheit; discrimination; health care delivery system; Wahrnehmung; Gesundheitswesen; African; Erfahrung; Diskriminierung; Migrant; Benchmarking; sozioökonomische Faktoren; Einwanderung; attitude; benchmarking; migrant; Krankheit; socioeconomic factors; comparison; woman; Portugal; Portugal; sociocultural factors; soziokulturelle Faktoren; immigration; health; Vergleich; illness; Einstellung; experience; Immigrant women; Perceptions; Experiences; Access and utilization of health care services