Revisiting Gender and Migration
Revisiting Gender and Migration
Contributor(s): M. Murat Yüceşahin (Editor), Pinar Yazgan (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Economy, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: migration; gender; family; women;
Summary/Abstract: Yucesahin and Yazgan bring together an intriguing collection of essays drawing on a series of research carried out across the world to offer new insights on gender and migration nexus. Recent developments in the field of women’s studies have led to a renewed interest in gender studies; nevertheless, these changes are having an effect and a need, which represent different theoretical and analytical tools rather than sex as a dichotomous variable. There is an increasing concern about using theoretical approaches of gender as relational, and spatially and contextually. Therefore, gender is an increasingly important concept in different areas as an analytical tool and research lens to understand how societies function, depending on diversified theoretical orientations. Gender studies not only include women’s studies but also cover men’s and LGBTTI-Q studies.The literature on gender has highlighted several issues, specifically gender identity, gendered representations, gender roles, gender politics, femininity and masculinity. West and Zimmerman state that analysing gender involves a complex of socially guided perceptual, interactional and micro political activities that cast particular pursuits as expressions of masculine and feminine “natures”. Evidently, the role of gender in the contemporary world is at the heart of understanding migrations. From this point forth, recent developments in human mobility have heightened the need for bringing gendered approaches to all aspects of the issues of conflict and movement regarding states, societies and families from broadening perspectives to the ac-curate understanding of the whole process.
Series: Migration Series
- E-ISBN-13: 978-1-910781-59-3
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-1-910781-57-9
- Page Count: 156
- Publication Year: 2017
- Language: English
Introduction: Revisiting Gender in the Context of Migration
Introduction: Revisiting Gender in the Context of Migration
(Introduction: Revisiting Gender in the Context of Migration)
- Author(s):M. Murat Yüceşahin, Pinar Yazgan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:7-17
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:migration;gender;
- Summary/Abstract:Gender in migration studies, we believe, is linked to feminist studies in the broader sense. The concept of feminism comes from the term womanism and was first used in the 1890s. It is used as a general label for women's movements and the struggle for equal rights for women. Whilst it reflects a wide range of definitions, its purpose is to create awareness on the secondary status of women compared to men. It also examines the associated discrimination imposed on woman through culture and religion. This discrimination produces unequal power relations between men and women. In a broad sense, feminism is an act that aims to rearrange the world on the basis of gender equality in all forms of human relations and to act against gender-based discrimination. The movement seeks to neutralise gender based bias and declare a world with equal rights for all by virtue of their common humanity (Tilly and Gurin, 1990: 20).
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Deconstructing the Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation
Deconstructing the Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation
(Deconstructing the Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation)
- Author(s):M. Murat Yüceşahin
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:17-39
- No. of Pages:23
- Keywords:geography; feminism; gender; space; migration
- Summary/Abstract:A rainbow variety of theories has been proposed to explain the underlying dynamics and reasons behind migration. The majority of the research in the field confirmed that the main motivation behind migration is the drive to attain a dignified standard of living with elevated economic, social, and environmental status. Not limited to economic developments alone, migration presents its obvious aspect, that it is “culturally produced, culturally expressed and cultural in effect” (Newbold, 2010: 136).A close look at the nature of migration will immediately reveal its selective nature. “Migration selectivity”1 manifests itself as the migration tendency that is determined only in accordance with various factors such as diverse characteristics of an individual’s socio-demographic, socio-economic, and socio-cultural status (Yüceşahin et al., 2015). Therefore it is obvious that this diversity in such characteristics as age, education, wealth, and other factors may or may not trigger migration, and at various levels of intensity, even if it does.
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Gendered Pathways: Central Asian Migration through the Lens of Embodiment
Gendered Pathways: Central Asian Migration through the Lens of Embodiment
(Gendered Pathways: Central Asian Migration through the Lens of Embodiment)
- Author(s):Natalia Zotova, Victor Agadjanian
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:41-59
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:migration; Central Asia;gender;
- Summary/Abstract:The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave a start to mass international migration (Heleniak, 2008). Migration flows were first fueled by the regional insurgence, ethnic conflicts and civil war in Tajikistan (1992-1997), subsequent instability and economic turmoil. The shift from limited spatial mobility to development of massive population flows happened in a short historic span. While Russia became the destination country of choice for labor migrants from former Soviet states (Heleniak, 2008; Abashin, 2014), the patterns of mobility, motives and participants changed over time. Migration from Central Asian countries is fueled by economic difficulties; however, the causes of migration should not be limited to economic terms only. Rather they could be defined in a broader context of human insecurity.
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For Love or for Papers? Sham Marriages among Turkish (Potential) Migrants and Gender Implications
For Love or for Papers? Sham Marriages among Turkish (Potential) Migrants and Gender Implications
(For Love or for Papers? Sham Marriages among Turkish (Potential) Migrants and Gender Implications)
- Author(s):Işık Kulu-Glasgow, Roel Jennisen, Monika Smit
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:61-78
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:gender; migration; marriage; Turkish; Netherlands;
- Summary/Abstract:Under the impact of globalization and continuing migration flows to the European countries, marriage migration became an important way of immigration to these countries. The countries of the European Union (EU) apply restrictive marriage migration policies towards non-EU citizens. In addition to the implementation of stricter requirements transnational couples have to fulfill (e.g., regarding income and pre-integration of the immigrating partner even before migration), there has been increasing political attention to combat sham marriages. At the request of several European countries, the European Commission recently provided a Handbook with common guidelines to identify and combat sham marriages (COM/2014/284). According to the Handbook and the EU-directive that describes the rights of EU-citizens and their family members regarding their free movement within the EU (2004/38/EG), a marriage is considered to be sham if its sole purpose is to gain a residence permit for the potential immigrant partner.
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Undocumented Migrant Women in Turkey: Legislation, Labour and Sexual Exploitation
Undocumented Migrant Women in Turkey: Legislation, Labour and Sexual Exploitation
(Undocumented Migrant Women in Turkey: Legislation, Labour and Sexual Exploitation)
- Author(s):Emel Coşkun
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:79-91
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:undocumented work;gender; women; migration; Turkey
- Summary/Abstract:Turkey, a traditionally migrant sending county, has become a destination and transit country for migration and refugee movements since early 1990s. Today, in addition to hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants, more than 2.7 million Syrians living in Turkey under “temporary protection” status. Previous research suggests that political changes in neighbouring areas, being located at conjunction of the East and West, a closer and cheaper neighbouring country with a relaxed visa regime, and the European Union's (EU) restrictive migration policies made Turkey more attractive for many migrants and tourists (İçduygu and Kirişçi, 2009). Initially, a significant number of transit migrants and asylum seekers, mainly from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran but also from several African and Asian countries came to Turkey to find their way to enter the wealthy Europe since 1990s.
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Family Perspective in Migration: A Qualitative Analysis on Turkish Families in Italy
Family Perspective in Migration: A Qualitative Analysis on Turkish Families in Italy
(Family Perspective in Migration: A Qualitative Analysis on Turkish Families in Italy)
- Author(s):Gül İnce Beqo
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Geography, Regional studies, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
- Page Range:93-108
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Italy; migrants;family;Turkish;
- Summary/Abstract:The main purpose of this research is to understand the migration phenomenon from a family perspective because family, as a relational social unit, can be a lens which reflects the transnational and intergenerational impacts of migration both on receiving and sending society. For the main purposes of this study I will refer to a relational definition of the family. Donati (2007) argues that family, different theoretical sociological approaches have framed/ considered the family as a structure of roles created by external factors like the social division of labour, the level of economic development, the type of political regime or communicative technologies. This vision caused the exclusion of the relational character of the family from its definition. Family is thus seen as a unit which is driven by the external forces that are not directly related to human experience “while it should be observed instead as a morphogenetic network of relations, or rather as a primordial and original network emerging from the mediations that the family, as a sui generis social relation, act between nature and culture, between public and private, between individual and society (Donati, 2007: 10).
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Marriage and Divorce in the Context of Gender and Social Capital: The Case of Turkish Migrants in Germany
Marriage and Divorce in the Context of Gender and Social Capital: The Case of Turkish Migrants in Germany
(Marriage and Divorce in the Context of Gender and Social Capital: The Case of Turkish Migrants in Germany)
- Author(s):Sevim Atilla Demir, Pinar Yazgan
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
- Page Range:109-128
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:Turkish migrants; Germany; marriage; divorce; social capital;
- Summary/Abstract:The immigration phenomenon has been recently analysed as a complex process in the context of globalisation and dynamism (e.g. Cohen and Sirkeci: 2011; Sirkeci, 2009; Yazgan, 2016). There are various hypotheses which have been employed to explain the immigration phenomenon, which describes mobility from one location to another. It is observed that these immigration hypotheses have become pluralistic and socio-cultural in nature as opposed to individualistic and economy-centred and that the individual’s choice has come to the forefront. The choice here is a preference made by individuals to increase their income. Immigration is based on a cost-benefit analysis, and it is assumed that it occurs voluntarily and with the free will of the immigrant, based on their own economic concerns. In this new economic hypothesis, it is claimed that massive social units rather than individuals decide to immigrate, not to increase their incomes, but to decrease or mitigate their risks. This hypothesis widens both the subject and purpose of immigration and portrays the immigration decision not as an individual act of the immigrant, but as the common decision of social units or institutions.
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Effects of Refugee Crisis on Gender Policies: Studies on EU and Turkey
Effects of Refugee Crisis on Gender Policies: Studies on EU and Turkey
(Effects of Refugee Crisis on Gender Policies: Studies on EU and Turkey)
- Author(s):Pelin Sönmez
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
- Page Range:129-150
- No. of Pages:21
- Keywords:refugees; EU; Turkey; gender; policy
- Summary/Abstract:Debates on "migration of women" got stronger when globalization and its challenges were felt around 1980 and onwards. In Europe, the period between 1960 and 1973 was known as the golden age of social welfare state while in the 1990s this social welfare model came into a crisis and many European governments cut resources on social services. Suddenly, migrant women began to be a rational choice to compensate the gap as they provided cheap labour for social welfare services. As a result, home care became the most common social welfare service supplemented by migrant women (Öner, 2015: 358). This actually increased the demand for female migrant workers who often come from countries outside Europe. Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi argues from another perspective in her studies and says that the globalization and implementation of economic policies resulted in the feminization of poverty, which actually refers a situation where “women rather than man are especially at risk of being poor in industrialized countries” (Hyndman and Giles, 2011: 363).
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Index
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- Author(s):Author Not Specified
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences
- Page Range:151-151
- No. of Pages:1
