Gender and Mobility ：A Critical Introduction ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：A Critical Introduction

Publication series ：1

Author： Penttinen Elina;Kynsilehto Anitta

Publisher： Rowman & Littlefield International‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781786602695

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781786602671

Subject： C91 Sociology;D5 World Politics;D8 Diplomacy, International Relations;K901 human geography

Keyword：外交、国际关系,社会学,人文地理学

Language： ENG

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Description

Comprehensive guide to studying gender and mobility, unpacking key themes and theoretical approaches, ranging from queer studies, global political economy, migration and border studies, feminist policy analysis, research on violence and feminist security studies.

Chapter

Gender and Mobility

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1 Gender and mobility: A critical introduction

The ethics of our approach: Critical thinking and practice

Tools for the journey: Conceptualizing gender, global and mobility

Is gender enough?

Does global mean worldwide?

Migration or mobility?

Organization of the book and individual chapters

Discussion points

Essay questions

Extra materials

2 Intersectional approaches to human mobility

Labour migration

Manpower and the gendered configuration of migration

Gender in service and care work

Gendering skills and privilege

Forced displacement

Gendering refugees

Undocumented mobility

Global mobility for the purpose of family formation

Gendering immobility

Concluding words

Discussion points

Essay questions

Study assignments

Extra materials

3 Globally mobile life

Queer migration studies

Motherhood

Sexuality

Home

Concluding words

Discussion points

Essay questions

Study assignment

Extra materials

4 Global political economy and global mobility

Feminists theorize the economy

Homo economicus: Who is he?

Public-private distinction

Participation in the formal economy as progress

Global mobility: An economy of scale

Gender stereotypes for profit

Concluding words

Discussion points

Essay questions

Extra materials

5 Policing borders and boundaries

Murderous borders

Controlling bodies at the border

Gendering migration policies

Problematizing prioritized mobilities

Ordering emigration

Uneven access to nationality

Global governance of migrants and refugees

Gendering refugee protection

Global governance of labour migration

Concluding words

Discussion points

Essay questions

Study assignments

Extra materials

6 Abuse, crime and mobility

Trafficking in the context of global mobility

The crime of trafficking

Experiencing violence and potential for healing

Concluding words

Discussion points

Essay questions

Extra materials

7 Re-imagining global mobilities

Paradoxical simultaneity: Loss of control, quest for control

Potential of posthumanism as new insight on gender and global mobilities

Posthumanist ethics of worlding

Concluding words: A renewed call to imagine

Discussion points

Bibliography

Index

About the Authors

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