ISBN:
9780415396004
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (259 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals
DDC:
306.85086/912
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the connections between gender and migration rarely consider these kind of migrants. This volume fills these gaps by investigating impact of relocation on gender and family relations among today's transnational professionals
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender and Family among Transnational Professionals; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Shell Ladies' Project: Making and Remaking Home; 2 Shopping for a Hypernational Home: How Expatriate Women in Kathmandu Labour to Assuage Fear; 3 Travelling Together? Work, Intimacy, and Home amongst British Expatriate Couples in Dubai; 4 The German School in London, UK: Fostering the Next Generation of National Cosmopolitans?; 5 Moving Experiences: Responses to Relocation among British Military Wives
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Making Multiple Migrations: The Life of British Diplomatic Families Overseas7 Becoming a Feminist in Aidland; 8 At Work and at Play in the 'Fishbowl': Gender Relations and Social Reproduction among Development Expatriates in Madagascar; 9 From 'Incorporated Wives' to 'Expat Girls': A New Generation of Expatriate Women?; 10 'Coming to China Changed My Life': Gender Roles and Relations among Single British Migrants; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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