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| Titel: |
Untying migration completely: ce-gendering or radical transformation? |
| Auteur: |
Halfacree, Keith |
| Verschenen in: |
Journal of ethnic and migration studies |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 30 (2004) nr. 2 pagina's 397-413 |
| Jaar: |
2004-03 |
| Inhoud: |
Tied migration for (heterosexual) partners has been shown to have a clear gender dimension; it is usually the female migrant who is 'tied'—whose employment career is negatively disrupted for the sake of her male partner's employment career progression. A clear policy and cultural outcome from this work would be to advocate the diffusion of egalitarian household decision-making environments with respect to employment careers. Thus, labour migration will become 'de-gendered'. This paper problematises this liberal and meritocratic agenda by pointing to some of its more problematic elements. These difficulties arise from a discursive narrowing of the concept of 'career' and serve to promote a limited instrumentalist esprit de vivre on the part of both men and women. More generally, de-gendering labour migration fits conveniently with the enhanced globalisation project of contemporary capitalism. The importance of ties to distinctive places for people's everyday life and well-being is excised from such a project, and de-gendering labour migration can facilitate this excision. Thus, I argue for a radical utopian political project that enmeshes de-gendering within a broader critique of current socio-political structures. In sum, Âmigration must be untied completely. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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