Negotiating Migration, Performing Gender

Paul, Anju Mary

doi:10.1093/sf/sov049

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“…The theory itself leaves some room to accommodate a degree of intrafamily bargaining (e.g., see Stark & Bloom, ). Although ethnographic scholarship has consistently shown the contested, negotiated, and gendered nature of migration decision‐making (Grasmuck & Pessar, ; Hondagneu‐Sotelo, , ; Paul, ), these dimensions have been mostly missing in quantitative, population‐level research. Recent studies are exceptions where new economics of labour migration has played a smaller (Kanaiaupuni, ; Creighton & Riosmena, ) or larger (Nobles & McKelvey, ; Riosmena, ) role, but these studies consider intrafamily dynamics among spouses, not siblings.…”

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Sibling position, gender, and family networks in Mexican and Senegalese migration

Liu

Riosmena

Creighton

2018

Population Space and Place

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This paper examines the gendered roles of sibling position and network-derived social capital in Mexican and Senegalese international migration. We investigate how men's and women's migration decisions are associated with their position within the nuclear family before and after accounting for nuclear family migrant networks. Crucially, we also estimate how sibling network "effects" are gendered. We analyse 2 comparable household surveys in very distinct settings where family obligations may vary: the Mexican Migration Project (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) and the Migration between Africa and Europe-Senegal project (2008). Using discrete-time event history analysis, we find that-without controls for nuclear family migrant networks-younger siblings in Mexico appear more likely to migrate than their older counterparts, whereas the opposite is true in Senegal. After we control for family migrant networks, however, older siblings in both countries and of both sexes are more likely to migrate. Despite these commonalities, migrant sibling networks appear to be gendered differently in the 2 countries. Although Mexican men are most influenced by migrant brother networks and Mexican women are most influenced by sister networks, evidence for Senegal is mixed and destination-dependent. Brother networks motivate Senegalese men's and women's migration to Europe, whereas nearly all sibling networks, regardless of gender, influence Senegalese migration within Africa.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Sibling position, gender, and family networks in Mexican and Senegalese migration

Liu

Riosmena

Creighton

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…Yet, they are also non-migrants because, even in their locally legible status as failed or former migrants, their experiences of the migration processes are incomplete and distinct from those who have worked or lived in foreign countries. Recent studies have considered those who choose to stay (Fioratta 2015;Reeves 2011) and those who are deciding or ambivalent about whether to migrate (Paul 2015). By emphasizing the ambiguous subjectivities of those who began to migrate yet eventually stayed, this article expands our understanding of the agency and category of non-migrants.…”

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In between leaving and being left behind: mediating the mobilities and immobilities of Indonesian non‐migrants

Chan

2017

Global Networks

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In this article, I consider how and why some non‐migrants partially inhabit migrant subjectivities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Central Java, Indonesia, I describe the experiences of those who embarked on pre‐departure migration processes, but failed to leave the country. Men were often victims of fraud; women typically ran away from the confines of training centres. When redirected away from the border spaces of airports and recruitment centres, they typically identify themselves and are perceived by kin and neighbours as ‘former’ transnational migrants. I analyse how migration infrastructure – intersecting institutions, agents and technologies – produces such subjectivities in‐between conventional migrant and non‐migrant categories. These positions in between leaving and staying illuminate the infrastructural conditions that enable, constrain and mediate transnational mobilities. These cases of non‐departure show the expansive social and spatial effects of migration infrastructure beyond the facilitation of transnational movement. Such less considered (im)mobilities of non‐migrants point to the diverse ways in which migration institutions and agents mediate the circulation of persons between and within national borders.

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“…Furthermore, recipient and sending states discursively construct feminine domesticity to facilitate women's involvement in the international labor market as unprotected care providers (Chin 1998;Silvey 2004;Rodriguez 2002). While acknowledging that female migration breaks gender barriers, analysts emphasize the persistence of patriarchal norms: female migrants are confined to lowly paid reproductive labor (Parreñas 2001;Lan 2008), and their migration decisions are constrained by ideologies valorizing motherhood (Parreñas 2009;Paul 2015). Rather than exchanging housework for their wives' incomes and adopting egalitarian gender ideologies (Thebaud 2010), men who stay behind outsource childcare to extended female kin as a means to defend their masculinity (Parreñas 2009;Hoang, Yeoh & Wattie 2012).…”

Section: Female Migration and Masculinitiesmentioning

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Re-defining the Stay-behind Indonesian Men: Changing Masculinities in the Context of Women’s Transnational Migration

Zhang¹

2020

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Negotiating Migration, Performing Gender

Cited by 47 publications

References 55 publications

Sibling position, gender, and family networks in Mexican and Senegalese migration

Sibling position, gender, and family networks in Mexican and Senegalese migration

In between leaving and being left behind: mediating the mobilities and immobilities of Indonesian non‐migrants

Re-defining the Stay-behind Indonesian Men: Changing Masculinities in the Context of Women’s Transnational Migration

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