The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration, 1st ed. 2021

This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographies of power, modern slavery, women and refugee law, masculinities, and more. Scholars from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania delve into institutional, normative, and day-to-day practices conditioning migrants? rights, opportunities and life chances based on material from around the world.

This handbook will be of great interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including Women?s and Gender Studies, Sociology, Sexuality Studies, Migration Studies, Politics, Social Policy, Public Policy, and Area Studies.

Chapter 1        An Intersectional and Global Approach to the Study of Gender And Migration

SECTION I: THEORISATIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER AND MIGRATION

Monica Boyd

Chapter 3        Gendering Transnationalism: Migration and Mobility in Longue Durée

Johanna Leinonen

Chapter 4        Intersectionality and Transnationality as Key Tools for Gender-Sensitive Migration Research

Helma Lutz and Anna Amelina

Ingrid Palmary

Chapter 6        Reflexivity and its Enactment Potential in Gender and Migration Research

Kyoko Shinozaki

SECTION II: CARE, AFFECTIVE AND EMOTIONAL LABOUR

Chapter 7        Gender, Migration and the Inequalities of Care

Isabel Shutes

Chapter 8        Gendered Transnational Parenting

Karlijn Haagsman and Valentina Mazzucato

Chapter 9        German Migrants in Pattaya, Thailand: Gendered Mobilities and the Blurring Boundaries between Sex Tourism, Marriage Migration and Lifestyle Migration

Kwanchanok Jaisuekun and Sirijit Sunanta

Chapter 10      Burmese Migrant Women Workers in Thailand: Juggling Production and Reproduction

Ruth Pearson andKyoko Kusakabe

Chapter 11      Migration and Elderly Care: When Women Leave, Who Cares for Older Adults? A Case Study of Cuba

Elaine Acosta

SECTION III: GENDERED WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND SKILLS MOBILITY

Chapter 12      Gender Bias in Skills Definition, Labour Market Dynamics and Skills Recognition

Anna Boucher

Chapter 13      Gender and Gender Relations in Skilled Migration: More than a Matter of Brains 

Belinda Dodson

Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi

Chapter 15      The Promises of Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Kaleidoscopic Exploration

Denise L. Spitzer

Chapter 16      Neoliberal ‘Flexibility’ and the Discursive Incorporation of Migrant Labour In

Public Eldercare in Finland

Sirpa Wrede, Lena Näre, Antero Olakivi and Camilla Nordberg

SECTION IV: GENDERED MIGRATION AS SITE OF GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 17      Gendering the Global Governance of Migration

Rianne Mahon

Jenna Hennebry and Hari KC

Chapter 19      Revisiting the Migration-Development Nexus Debate through the Prism of Gender, Politics and Agency

Petra Dannecker and Nicola Piper

Chapter 20      Gender and Remittances

Rahel Kunz and Julia Maisenbacher

Chapter 21      Human Rights in Households: Gender and the Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers

Jennifer N. Fish

SECTION V: FORCED MIGRATION, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AND CONFLICT

Chapter 22      Gender, ‘Refugee Women’ and the Politics of Protection

Heaven Crawley

Chapter 23      “Aberrant” Masculinity: Men, Culture and Forced Migration

Rose Jaji

Magdalena Suerbaum

Chapter 25      Gender and Refugee Resettlement: The Role of Proximal and Distal Stressors in

the Experiences of Survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Jenny Phillimore, Sandra Pertek, Lailah Alidu

Chapter 26      Slavery Versus Marronage as an Analytic Lens on “Trafficking”

Julia O’Connell Davidson

Chapter 27      Refugees, Gender and Disability: Examining Intersections Through Refugee Journeys

Lucy Fiske and Chrisanthi Giotis

Chapter 28      ‘I’m a refugee in my own country!’ Gendering Internal Displacement & Trauma

Malathi de Alwis

SECTION VI: GENDERING MIGRANT RIGHTS, SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE POLITICS OF INCLUSION

Chapter 29      Social Protection, Gender and International Migrations: From National Worlds to Transnational Quests

Sònia Parella and Thales Speroni 

Chapter 30      Gender, Naturalisation and Deserving Citizenship

Leah Bassel

Chapter 31      The Impact of Immigration Regulations and Visa Policies on the Gendered Nature of International Migration

Chapter 32      Women, Borders, and Mobilities in Latin America

Carolina Stefoni; Menara Guizardi; Eleonora López; and Herminia Gonzálvez

Claudia Mora is Professor at the School of Humanities and Senior Researcher at the Center for Technological Society and Human Future, Universidad Mayor, in Santiago de Chile.

Nicola Piper is Professor of International Migration and British Academy Global Professor Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, UK.

Advances understanding of migration as a gendered process

Explores the ways in which social class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality shape the process of migration

Include contributions from scholars in a diverse range of field and from multiple countries across the world