Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13708
Title: Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives
Contributor(s): Kaur, Amarjit  (editor); Hoerder, Dirk (editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13708
Abstract: Research on labour migration up to the 1980s focused primarily on emigration of Europeans to the New World, corresponding with nineteenth-century industrialization, and on Asian indentured migration to colonial plantation and mining economies. In both sectors, scholars assumed, jobs were for men and thus migration was "a men's thing". In the frame of this assumption, a feminization of migration has been identified since the 1990s with the near collapse of industrial production in Europe and North America and the shift to service economies in western advanced countries with fast aging populations. The demand for domestic workers, nurses, and caregivers suddenly began to be highlighted and thus migration became "a women's thing". In the curiously gendered academic world, most male researchers continue to work on male proletarians of the past, while women scholars analyze female working migrants of the present. Thus, two parallel research agendas and discourses co-exist with porous, but not often crossed, borders between fields. In addition to the problem a majority of researchers had with gender, most also uncritically used the free versus forced dichotomy of labour and labour migrations. They treated slaves and indentured workers of colour (i.e.other than white) separately from European, white and "free" migrants. However, the "free" migrants were 'forced' to leave unacceptable living conditions and those labelled 'coolies' were, according to the data, mostly free or, more cautiously, 'self-willed' migrants. Only some 10 per cent of the Indian Ocean migrants were indentured servants.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Grant Details: ARC/DP0666015
Source of Publication: Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations: A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries, p. 3-18
Publisher: Brill
Place of Publication: Leiden, Netherlands
ISBN: 9789004251380
9789004251366
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 160305 Population Trends and Policies
160607 International Relations
160303 Migration
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 440305 Population trends and policies
440808 International relations
440303 Migration
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 940303 International Organisations
940304 International Political Economy (excl. International Trade)
940299 Government and Politics not elsewhere classified
949999 Law, Politics and Community Services not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 230303 International organisations
230304 International political economy (excl. international trade)
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/197864725
Series Name: Studies in Global Social History
Series Number : 12
Editor: Editor(s): Dirk Hoerder and Amarjit Kaur
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