Deconstructing the Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation
Deconstructing the Gender-Migration Relationship: Performativity and Representation

Author(s): M. Murat Yüceşahin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
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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