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Gender and Migration
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1998-01-01
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73
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The articles in this collection explore the vast array of different reasons for women and men moving within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage, or in the midst of conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of a social network, spanning different locations. Understanding these links helps us to understand migration as part of a wider strategy for making a living. The articles also explore how migration may offer women a chance to challenge oppressive gender relations: migrants are exposed to different ways of being and doing, which show that culture is neither universal or fixed. Conversely, migration may be a route into continuing gender-based discrimination, because women become isolated from their support systems.
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Editorial; 'Frustrated and displaced': Filipina domestic workers in Canada; Gujarati migrants' search for modernity in Britain; Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India; Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe settlement, Uganda; Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK; More words but no action? Forced migration and trafficking of women; The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon; Migration, ethnicity, and conflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Resources; Further reading
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Oxfam Focus on Gender
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978-0-85598-399-4