The Combined Effect of Qualifications and Marriage on the Employment Trajectories of Peruvian Graduates in Switzerland

Seminario, Romina; Feuvre, Nicky Le

doi:10.1007/s12134-019-00730-8

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“…The geographical mobility required of early career scientists tends to reinforce existing inequalities in economic resources and settlement rights (Sautier, 2017 ;Bataille and Sautier 2019). For example, the Swiss migration regime imposes annual quotas on the number of non-European citizens that can be admitted into the country at any one time and also requires them to leave the country immediately after the end of their employment contract, 7 a constraint that is not imposed on postdocs from the EU (Seminario & Le Feuvre, 2017). Likewise,`family reunication' measures are much harder for homosexual couples to access and are reserved for Swiss nationals, or for those foreigners with a permanent Swiss resident permit.…”

Section: Postdoc Mobility : Inbound and Outbound Circulations On An International Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Academic Citizenship

2020

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Irrespective of national and disciplinary specicities (Le Feuvre et al 2018), the conditions of entry to an academic career are generally recognized as being increasingly selective in the contemporary context. In the competition for a reduced number of stable or permanent academic positions, recently qualied PhD graduates who want to pursue an academic career face two main challenges. On the one hand, they have to accept a succession of xed-term, often part-time and badly paid, precarious positions (generically designated as ?postdocs ?), that have become a prerequisite for selection to more stable and permanent positions in the global academic labour market. On the second hand, access to these positions usually requires some form of geographical ? usually transnational ? mobility, which removes them from their existing social networks. In this chapter, we propose to analyse the eects of the combination of precarious employment positions and geographical displacement on the gendered citizenship experiences of postdocs working in a specic academic context. On the basis of qualitative (biographical interview) and quantitative (on-line web survey) data collected in the course of the GARCIA project (www.garciaproject.eu), we will examine the citizenship challenges faced by postdocs from across the globe who are working in the Swiss academic context.

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Section: Postdoc Mobility : Inbound and Outbound Circulations On An International Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

Gendered Academic Citizenship

2020

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“…Research evidences the interplay of multiple and important barriers among university-educated migrant women and insecure conditions to validate professional degrees in the countries of destination (Christiansen and Kristjánsdóttir 2022;Kofman 2012;Liversage 2009;Rodríguez and Scurry 2014). In addition, the gendered division of labour in the family sphere has a significant impact on their employment opportunities (Föbker 2019;De Miguel et al 2015;Mulholland and Ryan 2014;Seminario and Le Feuvre 2021;Riaño 2021). As this body of research confirms, the interaction of contexts and barriers influences women's agency and their insertion into the labour market.…”

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“…Language barriers, the need for recognition of their educational qualifications for regulated professions and the devaluation of their qualifications, as well as the lack of social networks and specialised job search support services, are the main barriers and challenges for women with tertiary studies in the EU labour market (Gomes de Araujo 2023). Upgrading and re-qualification are the main strategies identified to overcome these barriers (Bermúdez 2014;Kofman 2014;Liversage 2009;Riaño and Baghadi 2007;Seminario and Le Feuvre 2021).…”

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“…As Romens (2021) suggests, family dynamics are a key factor in understanding the entry of highly educated women into the labour market of the host country. Indeed, marriage and family ties influence their professional trajectories and contribute to either hindering access to occupational integration (Seminario and Le Feuvre 2021;, driving a process of occupational downgrading (Zinatsa and Saurombe 2022) or driving a project of immobility (D'Aoust 2015). In that sense, Seminario and Le Feuvre (2021, p. 207) estimate that "the gender configuration of the family environment influences the employment opportunities of highly skilled migrants more than origin or educational qualifications per se".…”

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Highly Educated Women: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Labour Integration in an Emotional Migratory Process

Maiztegui Oñate,

Di Martino,

Aristegui

2023

Social Sciences

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This article explores the barriers and the strategies of a group of highly educated foreign women to obtain a job-education matching situation in the Basque Country (Spain) where they all permanently settled following a binational heterosexual marriage. Drawing on 21 biographical interviews with women from Latin America and Europe, we examine new perspectives on the complexity and fluidity between their professional pathways and family projects. For that, we apply an intersectional lens to analyse their life experience. Our results show that respondents involved in a feminised labour market (education and health) have fewer difficulties to find a job-education match. In other cases, becoming self-employed is a way to gain independence and flexibility by running an open market-oriented business. Interviewees identified language, lack of personal networks, family reconciliation, traditional gender roles and the transferring of cultural capital as the main barriers for their incorporation into the labour market. The study finds that marriage support is not enough to overcome the barriers. We argue that for a more comprehensive understanding of labour integration of highly educated migrant women, motivation and agency, linked to family support, should be considered factors to cope with structural inequalities.

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“…The encounter with a new gender regime and meanings becomes the expression of other inequalities, not only between genders but also between national, ethnic or class-based identities. These categorical and structural barriers are not only defined by the destination of migration, but also by previous and shifting positions, roles and meanings mobilized or transformed through the displacement (Seminario & Le Feuvre, 2019). 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.…”

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

2022

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This article looks at the role of gender relations and norms in the (re)making of career trajectories of highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland. We explore how refugees encounter gender regimes while making sense of their present work situation vis-à-vis their career plans. We draw upon a qualitative study conducted with 27 highly skilled Syrian refugees in Switzerland. How do refugees encounter different gender regimes in Switzerland? What is the significance of gender in their transition to a new labour market? How do they re-negotiate gender meanings and roles following the displacement? Our findings show that refugees (re)make sense of gender norms, roles and meanings across space and time vis-à-vis their career trajectories. The gender regimes these people refer to are highly diversified and shape people’s negotiation of family roles and identities in complex and at times ambivalent ways, also along multiple lines of belonging.

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The Combined Effect of Qualifications and Marriage on the Employment Trajectories of Peruvian Graduates in Switzerland

Cited by 5 publications

References 44 publications

Gendered Academic Citizenship

Gendered Academic Citizenship

Highly Educated Women: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Labour Integration in an Emotional Migratory Process

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

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