Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries: Vol. I: Gender on the Move (Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur", 10)

The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates as well as unique learning and teaching experiences of the Project Area Migration, the International Women's University. While pointing to historical continuities, it is shown how contemporary ways of bridging time and space are shaped by the new opportunities - or lack of them - related to the process of globalization. This shaping is gendered. Gendering migration paves the way for further intersectional analysis. Vol. I critically examinesmobility, globalization and migration policy from a gender perspective. It includes case studies on internal and international migratory processes inand from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Furthermore it makes an important contribution to the issue of agency and empowerment emerging from migrant women's experience. Front Matter....Pages 1-7 Introduction. Bringing gender into migration....Pages 9-22 Narratives from the margin, narratives from the centre....Pages 23-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Immigration policies: a gendered historical comparison....Pages 35-58 The feminization of survival: alternative global circuits....Pages 59-77 Transnationalism, gender and global workers....Pages 79-100 Transnational mobility and gender: a view from post-wall Europe....Pages 101-133 Front Matter....Pages 135-135 Gender and migration in China: feminisation trends....Pages 137-154 An anatomy of forced and voluntary migration from Bangladesh: a gendered perspective....Pages 155-176 Equal partners online? German matchmaking web sites and trafficking in women....Pages 177-206 The new migratory space in Southern Europe: the case of Colombian sex workers in Spain....Pages 207-227 Front Matter....Pages 229-229 A breakthrough for ethnic minority rights in Japan: Ana Bortz’s courageous challenge....Pages 231-259 Skilled migrant women and citizenship....Pages 261-283 Researching self-employed immigrant women in Hanover, Germany....Pages 285-298 Migration and female empowerment in Brazil....Pages 299-308 Back Matter....Pages 309-312 11 tions involving women and men and their relations to one another. Gender is an important organising principle of social relations as it structures every aspect of human interaction on a personal or household level, in the local community, and in international relations. Who will be socialised to become vulnerable or strong? Who will have property and political power? Who will be excluded from privileges? Who is likely to become mobile or denied the possibility to move? Our concern in this collection of articles was not to merely make women in migration visible, but to show that patterns, causes, experiences and social im­ pacts of migration are gendered. This is still not self-evident. As long as the male bias persists - the pervasive assumption that the inter­ national migrant is a young, economically motivated male, ignoring the reality of the composition of migration streams world-wide and influencing policy making - the compensatory approach which concentrates on women as the pri­ mary subject of studies will be necessary. v. 1. Gender on the move / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller ...[et al.] v. 2. Gender, identities, and networks / Ilse Lenz ... [et al.] (eds.).