scholarly journals Who donates their bodies to science? The combined role of gender and migration status among California whole-body donors

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 53-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asad L. Asad ◽  
Michel Anteby ◽  
Filiz Garip
Keyword(s):  
Whole Body ◽  
Migration Status ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration

scholarly journals On migration, geography, and epistemic communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell King
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Epistemic Communities ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Lifestyle Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migration And Development

Abstract This commentary paper starts by questioning the assumption that migration means international migration, and goes on to affirm that migration studies has indeed come of age as a coherent if highly diverse research field. Several emerging epistemic communities are identified: migration and development; gender and migration; lifestyle migration; and youth and student migrations. Finally, I argue that the role of geography in the study of migration has been under-valued.

scholarly journals “We Become Capable of Handling Everything”: Gender and Gulf Migration in Kerala, South India

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
Kathryn Gerry
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Work Abroad

Women have a uniquely gendered experience with worker migration from Kerala, South India to the Gulf, a phenomenon which touches virtually every household in this state. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kerala, this article examines the intersections of gender and migration; I argue that migration fuels significant social change in terms of gender expectations and the role of women as economic agents. My fieldwork reveals that women work abroad due to personal circumstances and to conform to local ideas about modernity. Migrants’ wives also experience increased autonomy in their daily lives. These two categories of women, migrant women and the wives of male migrants, are attuned to others’ perceptions of their roles vis-à-vis migration. Despite occasional negative feedback, women report that they are empowered by worker migration. This project builds on scholarship examining the status of women in Kerala (Eapen and Kodoth 2003), the experiences of migrant spouses (Osella 2016), and female Christian nurses’ Gulf migration (Percot 2006). I extend this work by analyzing the personal narratives of individual women who work in the Gulf, head their own households in Kerala, and experience stigmatization because of emigration. Finally, I explored the broader implications of migration for the lifestyles and aspirations of women in Kerala.

Gender and Migration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Syswerda
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Muslim Identities

While much of the literature about Muslim identities has tended to focus on British-born Muslims in densely populated ‘Muslim’ localities, the experiences of Muslim migrants living outside such localities have been largely overlooked. This leaves unanswered questions about the role of ‘other’ women – that is, women from diverse religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds – in shaping Muslim migrant women’s sense of self and their attitudes towards post-migration life. This chapter seeks to address this oversight by exploring the ways in which recent Muslim migrant women to Scotland construct new identities in relation to the ‘other’ women whom they encounter in their post-migration, everyday lives, including friends, neighbours and local community members. Thus, this chapter steps off from what is now a ‘relatively widespread understanding of the self as a relational achievement’ (Conradson and McKay, 2007: 167).

scholarly journals Gendered Perspectives in Psychology: Immigrant Origin Youth

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola Suárez-Orozco ◽  
Desirée Baolian Qin
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Socioeconomic Characteristics ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Migratory Experience

In this article, we contend that the field of psychology has largely failed to foreground the role of gender in its study of immigration. Here, we review studies that address gender and migration focusing on the experience of children and adolescents. We provide developmental perspectives on family relations, well-being, identity formation, and educational outcomes, paying particular attention to the role of gender in these domains. We conclude with recommendations for future research, which include the need to consider whether, and if so, how, when, and why it makes a difference to be an immigrant, to be from a particular country, or to be female rather than male. We argue that it is important to consider socioeconomic characteristics; to consider resilience as well as pathology; and to work in interdisciplinary ways to deepen our understanding of the gendered migratory experience of immigrant origin youth.

Renegotiating Gender Identities and Sexual Bodies: Zimbabwean Migrant Women’s Narratives of Everyday Life in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kezia Batisai ◽  
Lylian Manjowo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Migration Research ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration

A wide range of literature reveals that women in many African societies have historically been faced with the challenge of patriarchy and lack of freedom in their households—a challenge also mirrored in institutions of education, the economy, law and politics. This gendered position produces gendered inequalities which lead women to experience poverty more severely than men. The feminisation of poverty has over the years resulted in the feminisation of migration, which implies a change in women’s migratory identities and roles, where women are increasingly migrating as independent migrants rather than to rejoin male family members. Often, women migrate due to a desire for greater autonomy and a decrease in social restrictions on their productive and reproductive bodies. They also migrate to enhance their economic opportunities and seek new survival strategies in their endeavour to cater for their family’s needs and those that pertain to their being. It is against this backdrop that this article explores the experiences of migrant women and the strategies they employ as they, against all odds, renegotiate and reconstitute their gendered identities and sexual bodies in order to survive the complex realities of living in a “foreign” space. The article focuses on 15 Zimbabwean migrant women’s experiences of feminised poverty that pushed them out of the boundaries of their homeland, and the sexual and gendered livelihoods that emerged as part of their survival strategies in South Africa. As the article engages with Zimbabwean migrant women’s experiences prior to and after moving to South Africa, it is at work to illuminate how sexuality and migration shape and reshape one another. The article analyses the role of sexuality in gender and migration research that has not been given the pre-eminence it should in the Global South. Overall, the article reveals that the often subsumed and hidden role of sexuality in gender and migration research adds another complex layer of vulnerability to the bodies, identities and roles of Zimbabwean migrant women in South Africa.

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