Gender, Migration and Social Transformation - Couverture souple

Bastia, Tanja

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367728230 ISBN 13 : 9780367728236

Editeur : Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, make sense of the migration journeys they have undertaken.

Migration is intrinsically related to social transformation. Through life stories and community surveys, the author explores how gender, class, and ethnicity intersect in people's attempts to make the most of the opportunities presented to them in distant labour markets. While aiming to improve their economic and material conditions, migrants have created a new transnational community that has undergone significant changes in the ways in which gender relations are organised. Women went from being mainly housewives to taking on the role of the family's breadwinner in a matter of just one decade.

This book asks and addresses important questions such as: what does this mean for gender equality and women's empowerment? Can we talk of migration being emancipatory? Does intersectionality shed light in the analysis of everyday social transformations in contexts of transnational migrations? This book will be useful to researchers and students of human geography, development studies and Latin America area studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Tanja Bastia is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367728230
• ISBN 13: 9780367728236
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
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• Personne responsable: non disponible