Les infirmières indiennes émigrées dans les pays du Golfe : de l’opportunité à la stratégie

Percot, Marie

doi:10.4000/remi.2340

Cited by 15 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The couple then tend to sponsor further relatives, particularly young unmarried women who are thought to find work more easily in Rome's limited labour market niches. 4 While a married couple's move to Italy may represent a degree of independence from the extended family in Kerala (Percot 2005), the transnational kinship network continues to link the couple with their relatives in Kerala and to define the 'Italian experience' as temporary. 5 Marriage and kinship are particularly relevant to understanding migration to Rome because, unlike in most Gulf countries, local firms rarely sponsor direct migration from India through temporary job visas.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Gallo

2006

Global Networks

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Immigration from South Asia to Italy is a recent phenomenon and novel in that the pioneer migrants are often married or single women rather than men. In this article I explore the relationship between a ‘feminization of migration’ and the construction of masculine identities among Malayali migrants from Kerala, South India, who experience migration directly or indirectly through marriages with Malayali women living and working in Rome. The interest in focusing on the relation between women's pioneer role as migrants and their husbands' experiences of migration is to show how men's identity is represented through their conjugal bond with migrant women working in the domestic sector and to understand how masculinity is constructed and contested within and with reference to different places.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Gallo

2006

Global Networks

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In some cases they are employed as clerks or technicians in the government or private sector. The mother is almost always described as a housewife, as found by Percot (2005) in her study on nurses from Kerala who work in the Gulf.…”

Section: Choosing the Professionmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Nursing is seen as a profession with a potential for improving the lives of the women in question as well as of their families. It is chosen by them as a 'life strategy' to improve their financial situation and thereby the quality of life of the entire family (Percot 2005). Moreover, nursing is chosen as a suitable profession after excluding many other possibilities for higher education.…”

Section: Choosing the Professionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Citizenship, Community and Rights

Nair

2007

Indian Journal of Gender Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article examines the relationship between state, citizenship, communities and rights by exploring the ways in which nurses from Kerala experience their professional lives and migration. Far from being a straightforward relationship between relocation and homogeneous citizenship as an Indian, cultural and linguistic attachments are sought by these women. Common, unmarked citizenship embodied in legal membership in the Indian state as Indian citizens with legal and fundamental rights enables these migrant women from Kerala to exercise individual choice regarding work; their choice of profession and their movement seeking work are in major ways determined by their linguistic and ethnic identities. Their status as workers opens up new spaces-physical and social-and leads them to ways and means of living with more freedom in the social realm. The migrant women, therefore, feel that they have left behind the attachments and associations of dependence and feel 'autonomous' in the anonymity that the public space in Delhi has given them. On the other hand, their anonymity is marked by their linguistic and gender identities. Their repositioning in Delhi looks like an opportunity to negotiate the patrifocal nature of the community and family. Gender and ethnic hierarchies are reinforced in the communal sphere of a strange city in the event of changes in the traditional status of various communities and both genders.The history of the making of the Indian republic involved multifarious struggles around questions of equality that coexisted with the anti-colonial movement for freedom and sovereignty. Issues of gender equality were also articulated in the context of these multiple and multi-layered struggles. The present era marked by processes of globalisation, privatisation, liberalisation and structural adjustment in India and around the globe have made it

show abstract

“…Traditional norms and institutions can also be reconfigured and instrumentalized. However, rather than calling into question the institution of arranged marriages or the dowry system, Kerala nurses who migrated to Gulf states (Percot, 2005) or young Sikh women in Britain (Bhachu, 1991) combined their desire for autonomy and use dowries to "earn their husbands" and start nuclear families, thus emancipating themselves from their fathers and brothers. The capital earned by Tunisian women on their trading trips to Italy (Schmoll, 2005) is invested both in their daughters' dowries, but also in their education.…”

Section: Impact Of Migration On Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The gender power relations are also reconfigured by the out-migration of young women for work or marriage purposes as in Kerala (Percot, 2005) or South Vietnam (Bélanger and Linh, 2011). Their status is enhanced, giving them and their families more bargaining power in marriage transactions resulting in an increased preference for having girls rather than boys in the sending villages.…”

Section: Impact Of Migration On Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Gendering Migration

Morokvašić

2014

MET

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

SUMMARYMigration patterns, migration discourse and underlying representations, migrants' experiences, obligations and duties as well as the expectations relative to their migration are gendered. Since the pioneering feminist migration scholars' questioning of men as a universal reference and the invisibility of women or their stereotypical representations as dependents in the mainstream production of knowledge on migration, the scholarship has evolved considerably. It is argued in the paper that the ongoing process of cross-fertilization of developments in two separate epistemologies, each initially questioning monolithic and essentialist visions of a "migrant" on one hand and a "woman" on the other, produced a fecund subfield of research "migration and gender". The paper provides an insight into this, reviewing work on the issues related to gendering different phases of migration. Bridging migration and gender brought to the top of research agendas issues that used to be on the margins, creating new visibilities but leaving out other gendered dimensions of complex realities of migrant experience.

show abstract

Les infirmières indiennes émigrées dans les pays du Golfe : de l’opportunité à la stratégie

Abstract: Les infirmières indiennes émigrées dans les pays du Golfe : de l'opportunité ...

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Rethinking Citizenship, Community and Rights

Gendering Migration

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About