Transnationalism, gender and global workers

• Autores: Annie Phizacklea
• Localización: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries / coord. por Mirjana Morokvasic, Umut Erel, Kyoko Shinozaki, Vol. 1, 2003 (Gender on the Move), ISBN 978-3-8100-3493-9, págs. 79-100
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter begins by asking whether we are in fact observing new practices amongst so-called transnational migrants and critiques some of the theorising in this field for a lack of class transparency. The chapter goes on to look at some of the theoretical models that have tended to be favoured in the analysis of the relationship between gender and migration. Finally I consider a specific case study of migrant domestic workers in London who have undergone a process of regularisation of their visa status. All of these workers entered the country under a concession which enables ‘rich’ transnationals to bring ‘poor’ transnationals into the UK in rather the same way as one bring an additional piece of personal luggage. The chapter aims to throw some light on the transnational practices of this group and what the politics of belonging mean to them as individuals