Book Review: Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110559
Author(s):  
Bing Lu
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration

Book Review: General Politics: Transnational Migration

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 596-597
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Jaskulowski
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Migration

scholarly journals Resilience of Gendered Spheres in Transnational Migration: An Interpretive Book Review of Sheba Mariam George’s When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Calderon
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Cultural Mores ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Immigrant Men ◽  
The Church

Dr. Sheba George’s ethnographic study based using participant observation and purposive sampling and an insider transnational journey to examine changes in family and social roles that result when nurses from Kerala, India immigrate to the US ahead of their husbands. The author concludes that the economic and political gain immigration affords nurses does not translate into enhanced social status for their family in India or for their husbands in the US when they undergo gender transferral to homemaker. This transference causes a shift in gender structure from the home to the community, in this case the church as a way of counteracting the social emasculation Kerali men experience. This review cross culturally examines the resilience of patriarchal cultural mores and gender roles when Kerali and Puerto Rican immigrant men face the prospect of social emasculation; Puerto Ricans are examined from an insiders perspective.

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