1986
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2435.1986.tb01005.x
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The Feminization of Temporary Workers: The Canadian Case*

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“…Annually, approximately 500,000 migrant workers are deployed internationally, about 40% of whom are women engaged primarily in service-sector occupations. These flows comprise part of what is increasingly referred to as the "feminization" of labor migration, i.e., the growing number of female-dominated labor flows (Boyd and Taylor 1986;Hugo 1992;Brochmann 1993). The Philippines is also a logical choice of study because of the highly developed organizational character of its labor migration system (cf.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Annually, approximately 500,000 migrant workers are deployed internationally, about 40% of whom are women engaged primarily in service-sector occupations. These flows comprise part of what is increasingly referred to as the "feminization" of labor migration, i.e., the growing number of female-dominated labor flows (Boyd and Taylor 1986;Hugo 1992;Brochmann 1993). The Philippines is also a logical choice of study because of the highly developed organizational character of its labor migration system (cf.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Gender and migration became inextricably blended as feminization progressively played a pivotal role in shaping the discourse on immigrant experiences, resulting in a particularly focused organizing principle for empirical research (Boyd & Taylor, 1986; Menjivar, 1999). It is not an exaggeration to stipulate that the emergence of feminization of migration (Boyd & Greico, 2003) marked a point of departure from gender-neutral immigration research, in which the male migrant was the unit of analysis (Pessar, 2003), to a gender-sensitive core analytic category capturing the domain-specific experiences of women.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…O objetivo era enfatizar a importância das experiências das mulheres nos deslocamentos, em especial suas contribuições nos processos econômicos, no mercado de trabalho e nos arranjos familiares. Priorizava-se então, como eixo analítico, o suposto da "feminização das migrações", enfatizando as especificidades das experiências das mulheres nas dinâmicas migratórias (BOYD;TAYLOR, 1986;MOROKVAŚIC, 1984).…”
Section: Diálogos: Gênero Refúgio E Mobilidades Transnacionaisunclassified