Gender, Work and Migration: Agency in Gendered Labour Settings

Gender, Work and Migration- Front Cover
Gender, Work and Migration
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures and tables
	Figures
	Table
Series editor’s preface
	Notes
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
	Intersections of gender, labour and migration
	Central themes and approaches
	Structure of the book
	Notes
	References
PART I:
Migrant workers in feminised sectors: Meanings of work
Chapter 1: Emotional labour in the care industry: Workers’
best asset or biggest threat?
	Introduction
	Mastering emotional labour or being mastered by emotions?
	A capitalist miracle: marketising emotions, while making emotional labour invisible
	Emotions and professionalism: an oxymoron?
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: ‘Here, we don’t only receive orders’: (Dis)Empowering
care labour in Madrid and Paris
	Introduction
	Methods
	Theoretical framework
	Configuration of household care in Madrid
	Configuration of household care in Paris
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: Cleanliness, affect and social order: On agency and its
ambivalences in the context of cleaning work
	Introduction
	A hospital ethnography on cleaning and hygienic practices: theoretical and methodological approaches
	Agency and the reworking of social orderings
	On being made a ‘cleaning lady’: agency within the logics of gendered-racialised labour
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
PART II:
Migrant agency, mobilisations and resilience in
precarious contexts
Chapter 4: Dignity of labour: Activism among Filipina domestic
workers in Singapore and Barcelona
	Introduction
	Filipina migrants in the domestic work sector: an overview
	Labour-oriented activism in Singapore
	Labour-oriented activism in Barcelona
	Transgressing and inhabiting norms
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5: Migrant women in trade unions: Domestic service
activism in France
	Introduction
	Individual trajectory towards activism
	Activist group constitution: national belonging, ethnic identity and administrative status at stake
	Beyond ethnic belongings: a new political subject
	Subversive potential of activism on domestic work
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 6: Gender, mobility and precarity: The experiences of
migrant African women in Cape Town, South Africa
	Introduction
	Trends and dynamics of migration in southern Africa
	Work and employment of migrant women
	The lives of African migrant women in Cape Town
	Deciding to migrate to South Africa
	Livelihood and work experiences
	Experiences beyond the work setting
	Solidarity and support
	Conclusion
	References
PART III:
Transforming gender relations
Chapter 7: Gender roles and relations within Bolivian migrant networks: Ambivalent transgressions, regressions and new autonomies
	Introduction
	International migration, transnationalism and translocality
	Migration, work and gender: the case of Bolivian’s ‘feminised’ migration to Spain
	Dominant gender discourses in Bolivia
	Methodology and analytical approach
	Emigration as a ‘reflexive project of the gendered self’
	Migration and gendered labour: resistance and conformity
	Gendered relations across continents: translocal dialogues
	Concluding remarks
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 8: Two generations of women living in São Paulo’s comunidades: Changing education and employment patterns for immigrant
mothers and São Paulo-born daughters
	Introduction
	Migration patterns and motivations
	Gender, the state and new educational opportunities for second-generation immigrants
	Employment opportunities: formalisation, community health programmes and entry into historically male-dominated fields
	Inequality in the labour market: continuing labour exploitation and salary differentiation
	Changing gender roles in the household and living conditions
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 9: Precarity, gender capital and structures of (dis)empowerment
in the neoliberal service economy
	Introduction
	Managed voices
	Gendered value
	Feminised massification and masculinised customisation
	Gendering precarity
	Gender capital in and outside the shop floor
	Gender capital as a structure of (dis)empowerment
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Chapter 10: Gulf migration and changing patterns of gender
identities in a South Indian Muslim community
	Introduction
	Theoretical framework and methods
	Muslim communities and the history of Islam in Kerala
	Beemapally, the local fish economy and historical divisions of labour
	Dislocations in the fishing economy and migration to the Persian Gulf
	Gulf migration, prosperity and changing patterns of gender identities
	Modernity, minority communities and identity
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
Conclusion
	Nuanced accounts of agency: the ambivalent gendered outcomes of migration
	Mobility and immobility: non-migrants in migration studies
	Masculinities femininities: a more complete picture of gender and migration
	Time, generations and transmission
Index