Gender performance and migration experience of Filipino transgender women entertainers in Japan

Author(s):  
Tricia Okada
2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110178
Author(s):  
Dilara Yarbrough

Based on interviews and ethnography, this article analyzes how racialized gender policing in public space and service organizations deprives transgender women of survival resources. Although transgender women are disproportionately the targets of enforcement, most studies of the criminalization of homelessness, drug use, sex work and migration exclude their experiences. Studies that do include transgender women often focus narrowly on anti-prostitution laws and enforcement, overlooking other laws and policies that contribute to criminalization and poverty. This article analyzes the confluence between policing of transgender women’s identities and survival strategies in public space and in agencies meant to serve poor people (including shelters, drug treatment facilities and transitional living programs). Laws regulating access to public space combine with rules regulating gender in service organizations to both criminalize and create transgender poverty. More broadly, the carceral production of transgender poverty demonstrates that criminalization is not only a consequence but also a cause of both poverty and inequality.


2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 583-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Balaz ◽  
Allan M. Williams

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-95
Author(s):  
Robert Naderi

The article examines the question of how the selfreported financial situation has an effect on the actual birth of additional children in regard to generational support and migration background. The hypotheses to be tested are based on economic theories and research on the importance of economic uncertainty for fertility. Based on multivariate analyses of the two waves of the German Generations and Gender Survey, neither the individual financial situation, nor the relations between generations can be detected as effects on family expansion. The results show, however, that Turkish citizens differ in their migration experience in comparison to those who have immigrated in childhood or were born in Germany in terms of the explanatory factors. Factors like age of the woman, number and age of children are crucial in all groups under study. Zusammenfassung Im Beitrag wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich die selbsteingeschätzte persönliche finanzielle Situation auf die tatsächliche Geburt weiterer Kinder, unter Berücksichtigung generationaler Unterstützungspotenziale und dem Migrationshintergrund, auswirkt. Die zu überprüfenden Hypothesen basieren auf der ökonomischen Theorie und dem Forschungsstand zur Bedeutung ökonomischer Unsicherheiten für Fertilität. Mittels multivariater Analysen der zwei Wellen des deutschen Generations and Gender Survey, können weder Effekte der individuellen finanziellen Lage, noch der Generationenbeziehungen auf die Familienerweiterung nachgewiesen werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen hingegen, dass sich türkische Staatsbürger mit eigener Migrationserfahrung von denen, die im Kindesalter immigriert sind bzw. in Deutschland geboren wurden, bezüglich der Erklärungsfaktoren unterscheiden. In allen drei Gruppen sind Faktoren wie das Alter der Frau, die Kinderzahl und das Alter der Kinder für die Familienerweiterung zentral.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maheshwor Shrestha

Abstract This article reports on a randomized field experiment in which potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries are provided with information on wages and mortality incidences at their intended destinations. It is found that, particularly for the group of potential migrants without prior foreign migration experience, the information changes their expectations of earnings and mortality risks abroad, which further changes their actual migration decisions. Using the exogenous variation in expectations, it is estimated that the elasticity of migration with respect to mortality rate expectation is 0.8, and the elasticity of migration with respect to earnings expectation is 1.1.


2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 516-542
Author(s):  
Martin Jacobs

Abstract This study explores the reading and writing practices of Joseph Ha-Kohen, a sixteenth-century Jewish chronicler from Genoa, against the background of his Italian and Spanish sources: in what ways and why did he adapt, change or subvert their narratives? It focuses on two of Ha-Kohen’s major works: his Franco-Turkish Chronicle, and his Hebrew adaptation of López de Gómara’s account of the Spanish conquests in the Americas. Based on these writings, the essay asks how the author’s Sephardic identity and migration experience inform his ideas about the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. Notably, the Jewish chronicler applauds the Ottomans’ conversion of churches into mosques, while he condemns the forced Christianization of the Amerindians. At the same time, Ha-Kohen shares cultural attitudes with Gómara and voices qualified support for a Spanish civilizing mission. These ambiguities in Ha-Kohen’s writings—oscillating between praise and repudiation of imperial ideology—prove to be emblematic of post-expulsion Sephardic Jewry.


Author(s):  
Gajendra Verma ◽  
Yiu Man Chan ◽  
Christopher Bagley ◽  
Sylvia Sham ◽  
Douglas Darby ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110338
Author(s):  
Anna Smoliarova ◽  
Svetlana S Bodrunova

Russian-speaking diaspora has spread across the world during the last century and plays a significant role in cultural and political life of the host countries. But its virtual presence remains heavily understudied; it is only Russian-speaking news websites that have received some scholarly attention. This study aims at estimating the globality of mass self-communication of Russian emigrants on Instagram in the context of virtual diaspora studies as a new form of imagined communities. Instagram communication of emigrants illustrates how the nature of mass self-communication influences the nature of ties between diaspora members. We confirm the global scale of ties that are developed by the Russian-speaking “InstaMigrants” by network analysis. We also show that such seemingly apolitical publics possess a potential for politicization of everyday life and migration experience in unconventional ways.


2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Ruehs

Research on migration typically focuses on adults; yet, each year, thousands of children and adolescents immigrate to the United States independently. The experiences and identities of these young immigrants are complicated by a myriad of social locations, not least of all their gender identity. Based on sixteen qualitative interviews with men who immigrated to the United States as unaccompanied minors in the 1990s and 2000s, this article provides an intersectional understanding of the dynamic relationship between masculine identity and migration experience for adolescent men who migrate by themselves. In particular, this work explores how migration can serve as a “male quest story,” allows young men to take economic responsibility for their families, and provides the opportunity for men to escape local forms of violent masculinities.


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