Gender

Gender and the career trajectories of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland

“…Forced migration becomes an occasion where refugees see their professional lives disrupted, they confront a change in their status, and they come to be aware of new opportunities or constraints that are often related to gender differences. Our study showed how migration affects gender as a process, rather than merely as a differentiation category (e.g., by influencing the career and life paths of women and men differently) (Elliot, 2016). It is through movement, at times, that refugees with high qualifications and a wellestablished professional life before migration encounter the issue of gender in new ways or even for the first time.…”

“…We particularly contributed to this aim by considering the career trajectories of refugees, an aspect that in the context of migration studies has long been explored with a limited focus on gender differentiation between women and men in their integration into the new labour market. By tracing how migration defines specific kinds of gendered people (e.g., the image of the "Oriental woman" or the male or female refugee being associated with respective low-skilled jobs, even when they are highly skilled), we can start redefining what gender means rather than treating it as a fixed category (Elliot, 2016). Gender regimes for these refugees are not homogeneous but shape the negotiation of gender roles in complex and at times ambivalent ways, also along multiple lines of belonging.…”

“…Other scholars distance themselves from the study of gender as a classification of men and women's experiences of migration and rather look at how migration itself shapes gender (Donato et al, 2006;Elliot, 2016;Hondagneu-Sotelo, 1994;Mahler & Pessar, 2001). This research considers the dynamic and relational nature of gender as a process, how gender is made sense of, reinforced or transformed.…”

“…(Donato et al, 2006: 6) This article aims to contribute to this trend of research through a life-course perspective (Levy et al, 2005) and a special focus on career in the context of forced migration. While major research in migration studies has focused on how migration shapes gender and gender relations 'back home' in the countries of origin (among, for example, 'left behind' wives of migrants), there is further need to explore how migration shapes gender 'on the move' in the making of migrants' trajectories (Elliot, 2016;Le Feuvre et al, 2022;Schaer et al, 2017). A life-course perspective particularly supports unpacking this shifting and relational character of gender, as well as the temporal dimension of migration as a developmental experience of transformation.…”

Comunicación y movilidad urbana: propuestas de contenido informativo y periodístico para dispositivos móviles a partir de la experiencia de desplazamiento en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires-ARG

“…Muchos estudiosos han identificado movilidades diferenciadas respecto de cuestiones de género (Elliot, 2016;Jirón et al, 2010a (Cresswell, 2004, p. 7, traducción mía).…”