The Making of a Transnational Community: Migration, Gender, Power and Space

2017 | Gender Studies

Feminist geographies of migration suggest that migration brings about social change, potentially disrupting patriarchal structures and bringing about new spaces where gender relations can be renegotiated and reconfigured. This book adopts a transnational lens and focuses attention to the Global South to analyse how gender, class and ethnicity are renegotiated through internal and cross-border migration. It does this through multi-sited itinerant ethnography conducted with Bolivian migrants from the same community of origin. The analytical approach encompasses a multi-scalar and multi-sited intersectional approach to the study of social change through migration with the aim of investigating whether labour migration provides avenues for greater gender equality. In what ways do gender relations change through migration? What form does this change take? Can it be defined as 'emancipatory'? And if so, for whom?

Tanja Bastia (Author)