Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship)

Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites, sectors, and skills in which migrants are employed and how migration is both a cause and an outcome of depletion in social reproduction. "Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue that social reproduction offers an insightful lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global patterns of contemporary migration. They suggest that focusing on a range of sites, sectors, and skills beyond those deployed in the literature on care can offer new insights into the relationship between production and reproduction across genders, and how these are being reconfigured in the Global North and South. Drawing on the revived interest in social reproduction in the last few years, Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction suggests that the failure of social reproduction is not only an outcome but also a driver of global migration among different categories of migrants. Moreover, the gendered implications of skill selectivity in immigration regimes, along with class, race and nationality, produce new forms of inequality which influence the ability of individuals and households to benefit from migration and to improve the conditions of social reproduction"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-vii Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction: An Introduction....Pages 1-17 Gendered Migrations and Global Processes....Pages 18-39 Conceptualising Reproductive Labour Globally....Pages 40-66 Sites of Reproduction, Welfare Regimes and Migrants: Unpacking the Household....Pages 67-99 Skills and Social Reproductive Work....Pages 100-127 Immigration Regulations and Social Reproduction....Pages 128-155 Migration, Social Reproduction and Inequality....Pages 156-179 The Value of Social Reproduction....Pages 180-185 Back Matter....Pages 186-254