Producing Value among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France

Cole, Jennifer

doi:10.1086/675928

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“…Other authors use the term in a more restricted sense, considering sexual exchanges as the universe of exchanges of sex for money. Nevertheless, it involves a broad universe of exchanges, including marriage (Cabezas, 2009;Cole, 2014). In the latter perspectives, a significant portion of the authors use the concept of sexual economies, problematizing aspects of the idea of transactional (heterosexual) sex, one of the main categories used to analyze sexual and economic exchanges that are distinguished from prostitution. In some cases they question the fusion of transactional sex with sexual work as does part of the literature about these exchanges.…”

Section: Sex Markets or Sexual Economies?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Economias sexuais, amor e tráfico de pessoas – novas questões conceituais

Piscitelli

2016

Cad. Pagu

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In this text I comment on recent discussions about sexual economies, human trafficking and the relationship between these problematics, considering new questions that are raised in the debate about them. I dialog with other articles published in this issue of the cadernos pagu, considering the results of studies conducted in Brazil and other Latin American countries. My comments focus on two issues that arose in the dialog between this work and the articles of Christian Groess Gren, Marcia Anita Sprandel, Kamala Kempadoo and Amalia Cabezas published in this volume. I first refer to the analytical possibilities and the limits of concepts such as sexual economies and sex markets. A second question relates to forms of governmentality articulated in the regimes for fighting human trafficking that affect these exchanges, particularly sexual work. The question is, in the fifteen years since the enactment of the Palermo Protocol, the most important supranational legal instrument related to this crime, what new issues appear in the analysis of these regimes and of their effects on sexual and economic exchanges?

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Section: Sex Markets or Sexual Economies?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Economias sexuais, amor e tráfico de pessoas – novas questões conceituais

Piscitelli

2016

Cad. Pagu

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“…They try to meet the expectations attached to their marriage or union with a foreign man. For instance, Cole (2014) observes among Malagasy women married to French men that their vadimbazaha ('spouse of a European') status came with caregiving obligations towards their kin in Madagascar. To satisfy these expectations they had to earn their livelihood in France, to negotiate with their husbands, and to '"give life" to their French families and communities and their kin in Madagascar simultaneously' (93).…”

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“…By working, these women were able to satisfy the expectations of their husband in France and of their family in the Philippines, thereby avoiding possible tensions. This resembles the case of Malagasy women married to French men who are able to secure their status in their country of origin and maintain peace at home with their husband in France by understanding the gender norms of their receiving country (see Cole 2014). …”

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Gender- and social class-based transnationalism of migrant Filipinas in binational unions

Fresnoza‐Flot

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Empirical studies of Filipinos in France focus on migrant women domestic workers and consequently tend to overlook other components of the Filipino population in this country. Departing from these previous studies, I examine the case of migrant Filipinas in binational unions, that is, relationships based on marriage or cohabitation (legally registered or not) with a nonFilipino partner. Drawing from semi-structured interviews and informal conversations, this article demonstrates the intersectionality of gender and social class in the way these migrants maintain transnational familial ties. Influenced by the gender norms and ideology in the Philippines, migrant Filipinas strive to be 'good mothers' and/or 'dutiful daughters'. However, they do so differently depending on their social class belonging and on their family situation: migrants of modest social class background have usually children from previous relationships left under the care of their kin in the Philippines and feel compelled to send remittances and maintain regular communication with their family back home, whereas women of upper social class origin are neither obliged nor asked to do so. However, they send gifts and financial assistance voluntarily, pay frequent visits to their natal family and make some kin visit them in France.

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“…For example, young Malagasy migrant women have to balance their understanding of their value as providers of sexual, reproductive, and caring labor to the Frenchmen they marry with their value as providers of the resources that they secure through low-wage labor to folks back home (Cole 2014). When they lose their worth, the questions that people ask are "How is this possible?"…”

Section: Valuementioning

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“…In many societies, people equate hope with displacement in the belief that geographical mobility may translate into social mobility, it is hoped, in the right direction (e.g., Cole 2014;Palomera 2014;Pine 2014;Villarreal 2014). In these situations, migration can be understood as a material projection into a future that is located somewhere else.…”

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Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

Narotzky¹,

Besnier²

2014

Current Anthropology

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Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which the current world economic crisis has exposed in particularly dramatic fashion. This rethinking seeks to bring to center stage the complex ways in which people attempt to make life worth living for themselves and for future generations, involving not only waged labor but also structures of provisioning, investments in social relations, relations of trust and care, and a multitude of other forms of social action that mainstream economic models generally consider trivial, marginal, and often counterproductive. A holistic understanding of how people organize their economic lives is attentive to both the temporality of value and the relationship between different scales of value. It is attentive to the spatial configuration of economic life in many societies in which the future has become synonymous with geographical mobility. It is attentive to the fact that making a living is about making people in their physical, social, spiritual, affective, and intellectual dimensions.Rethinking the economy is an ambitious project, and the selection of the three themes of crisis, value, and hope with which we seek to open up a broader debate is an indication of the starting point: the crude realities of the many, those of ordinary people. The focus on "common" or "ordinary" people highlights the fact that those whose decision-making capacities are restricted by their limited assets, be it in terms of wealth or power, are nevertheless capable of developing sometimes complex individual or collective strategies to enhance their own well-being and the well-being of future generations. Here we define "well-being" as the accomplishment of socially reasonable expectations of material and emotional comfort that depend on access to the diverse resources needed to attain them. The context of a breakdown of expectations that the global crisis has produced in many regions of the world has reconfigured values and reshuffled the frameworks of moral obligation. As a result, the imagining of possible futures and how to make them happen has also changed. The

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Producing Value among Malagasy Marriage Migrants in France

Cited by 46 publications

References 17 publications

Economias sexuais, amor e tráfico de pessoas – novas questões conceituais

Economias sexuais, amor e tráfico de pessoas – novas questões conceituais

Gender- and social class-based transnationalism of migrant Filipinas in binational unions

Crisis, Value, and Hope: Rethinking the Economy

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