Gender and Migration

Anna Amelina is Professor of Intercultural Studies at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, Germany. Helma Lutz is Professor of Gender Studies at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Germany.

1. Gender Relations and Migration: Introduction to the Current State of the Debate (Helma Lutz)

1.1 The Social Construction of Gender

1.2 Intersectionality: Gender and Its Interdependence with Other Social Markers

1.3 Migration

1.4 Gender in the Migration Process: Between (In)visibility and Dramatization

1.5 Conclusion and Outlook

2. Migration and Gender: Researching Migration in National, Global, and Transnational Frameworks (Anna Amelina)

2.1 Gender and Social Inequality: The Challenges of Migration Research

2.2 Key Questions and Limitations of Assimilation Theories

2.3 The Neoclassical Approach and World-Systems Theory: Analyzing International Migration in a Globalized Context

2.4 The Transnational Perspective in Migration Research and Gender-Sensitive Inequality Analysis

2.5 The Interplay of Gender, Ethnicity/Race, and Class from a Transnational Perspective

2.6 Summary and Outlook

3. Doing Migration and Doing Gender: Intersectional Perspectives on Migration and Gender (Anna Amelina)

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Doing Migration: The Social Constructivist Perspective in Migration Research

3.3 Studies of Intersectionality: Analyzing the Interplay of Migration and Gender

3.4 Migration and Gender in the Focus of Intersectionality: The Current Research on Migration and Mobility in Europe

3.5 Conclusion and Outlook

4. Care: An Intersectional Analysis of Transnational Care Work and Transnational Families (Helma Lutz)

4.1 Care as (Un)paid Labor

4.2 Care as Gainful Employment

4.3 Global Care Chains: Transnational Motherhood and Care Circulation

4.4 Transnational Families between Stigmatization and Recognition

4.5 The Intersection of Regimes of Gender, Care/Welfare, and Migration

4.6 Conclusion: The Redistribution of Social Inequality

5. The Changing Face of Citizenship: From the National Model to the Transnational and Intersectional Approaches

5.1 Key Dimensions of Citizenship

5.2 Transnationally Oriented Citizenship Studies: Citizenship in the Process of Deterritorialization

5.3 Challenging "White Androcentrism": Feminist and Intersectional Approaches to Citizenship Research

5.4 "The Limits of Gendered Citizenship": The Intersectional Perspective in Citizenship Research

5.5 Conclusion

6. Teaching Intersections of Gender, Migration and Transnationality (Helma Lutz)

6.1 Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

6.2. A Proposal for Gender-Sensitive Migration Research: Summary of Chapter 1

6.3 Deconstructing Classical Migration Research from the Perspectives of Gender and Transnational Studies: Summary of Chapter 2

6.4 Intersectional Tools for Transnational Migration Research: Summary of Chapter 3

6.5 Intersectional Analysis of Transnational Care Relations: Summary of Chapter 4

6.6. Citizenship Theories beyond the National Paradigm: Summary of Chapter 5

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