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Tightening early childcare choices – gender and social class inequalities among Polish mothers in Germany and the UK
Care for young children continues to highly influence the life chances of men and women, even more so when they are migrants. For migrant women, childcare remains a particular challenge when their kin are absent and the gendered norms of work and family life abroad diverge from what they have known in the country of origin. This article contributes to a deeper understanding of social class and childcare strategies of migrant women by combining two research projects with migrants from Poland to Germany and the UK. Accounts represented in this article depict the ways in which migrant mothers interpret and use the available childcare options, thereby highlighting how class-based resources are deployed and reproduced in two different welfare regimes. The comparative approach pursued in the article reveals that it is
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class
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national context that has a capacity to determine early childcare choices on its own. Instead, it is an intricate interplay of social protections’ availability, gender norms and social class, which together engender various childcare strategies.
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Abstimmen wie Zuhause
Der Aufsatz stellt Ergebnisse einer empirischen Analyse des Wahlverhaltens türkischer StaatsbürgerInnen in Deutschland am Beispiel der Wahlen zum türkischen Parlament von 2018 dar. Ausgangspunkt sind die kontroversen Debatten um die Differenzen zwischen dem Elektorat in der Türkei und türkischen WählerInnen in Deutschland. Die VerfasserInnen verfolgen dabei mit Bezug auf die Literatur um plurilokale politische Orientierungen transnationaler MigrantInnen die These, dass das Wahlverhalten (in Bezug auf das Herkunftsland) signifikant von herkunftsspezifischen Faktoren bestimmt wird. Im Falle der Türkei sind die stark ausgeprägten Konfliktlinien zwischen säkularen und religiösen Positionen, sowie ethnisch geprägte Konflikte zu beachten. Diese schlagen sich in der Türkei in einem seit Jahrzehnten relativ stabil regional strukturiertem Wahlverhalten nieder. Daher wird als Proxy für die herkunftsbezogene Orientierung der Geburtsort verwendet. Grundlage ist eine aufwändige erstmalige Codierung von Daten aus dem Ausländerzentralregister, sowie deren Relationierung mit Daten aus den türkischen Konsulaten.
The paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of voting behavior of Turkish citizens in Germany using the case of the Turkish parliamentary election in 2018. Starting point is the controversial debate about the differing results of the electorate in Turkey compared to Turkish voters in Germany. With reference to the literature on plurilocal political orientations of transnational migrants, the authors pursue the argument that their voting behavior (concerning the country of origin) is significantly determined by origin-specific factors. For decades, the political landscape has been forged by two decisive political cleavages: between secular and religious orientations and ethnic affiliations. On an aggregate level, these cleavages are reflected in persistent regional patterns in the electoral behavior. Therefore, the place of birth (in Turkey) of Turkish immigrants is used as a proxy for the originrelated orientation. The study is based on an initial coding of data from the Central Foreigners Register and related to election data from the Turkish consulates.
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TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ROMANIAN MIGRATION IN SPAIN AND ITALY AFTER 1990
After the fall of the communist regime, the opening of the frontiers, the passage to market economy and the debut of economic reforms, the phenomenon of migration, in which regards the Romanians, suffered a substantial change both in the dynamics of internal migration, and in the early stages of external migration. This article engages an analysis of the phenomenon of Romanian migration for ivork purposes in Spain and Italy, from the perspective of the theories of trans-nationalism, by taking into account essential aspects regarding the circulatory migration, be it seasonal, temporary, periodical or not periodical, but also other forms in which migration presents itself such as transit, definitive or return migration.
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Following Migrant Trajectories: The Im/Mobility of Sub-Saharan Africans en Route to the European Union
We use two trajectory ethnographies that follow the migration processes of Sudanese and Nigerians heading for the European Union across space and time, to explore how the main theoretical principles of the mobilities debate add value to transnational migration research. We thereby particularly appreciate the relational ontology of the mobilities approach and its analytical focus on the differentiation of power and experiences in mobility processes. By providing in-depth insights into how migration trajectories evolve-that is, how they are produced, facilitated, slowed down, and blocked-we argue that a thorough analysis of migrants' im/mobilities helps us to reveal the spatial frictions, embodied efforts, and emotions that are inherent aspects of transnational engagements.
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Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities
This book is a collection of ethnographies of transnational migration and border crossings in Asia. Interdisciplinary in scope, it addresses issues of mobility and Diaspora from various vantage points. Unique to this volume is an emphasis of studying globalisation from below, privileging the narratives and views of \"people on the move\" - or the transnational underclass - and their sense of belonging to places and communities. The collection is further distinguished by its focus on the sources of authority and the social configurations that are created in the intersections between legality and illegality across Asia. Though previous studies on transnational flows have deconstructed the notion of nation-states as having fixed political boundaries, and have engaged in spaces beyond the nation-states, seldom has an entire region, Asia, been privileged in one integrated volume. We emphasize hitherto marginalized debates that have significant policy relevance. Other than a serious academic interest from lecturers and students, we are confident that book will be of significant interest for development practitioners and NGOs.
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Decolonizing psychology : globalization, social justice, and Indian youth identities
Decolonizing Psychology sheds light on the universalizing power and the colonizing dimensions of Euro-American psychology. The book integrates insights from postcolonial, narrative, and cultural psychology to ask how Euro-American scientific psychology becomes the standard-bearer of psychology throughout the world, whose stories get told, what knowledge is considered as legitimate, and whose lives are considered central to the future of psychology. Urban Indian youth represent one of the largest segments of the youth population across the world and yet remain so utterly invisible in the discipline of psychology. By using ethnographic and interview methods, this book draws a nuanced narrative portrait of how urban youth in Pune, India, who belong to the transnational elite, middle and working classes, reimagine their identities within the new structural and neoliberal cultural contexts of globalization and neoliberalization. The book examines how particular class identities shape youth narratives about globalization and “Indianness” generally, as well as specific stories about self and identity, social inequality, dignity, poverty, family, relationships, work, marriage, and practices of consumption. The book articulates an alternative vision of psychology in which questions of social justice and equality are seen as central to its mission, and it is argued that a psychology is needed that urgently and meaningfully speaks to the lives of the majority of the world’s population.
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THE WORK OF WAITING
During the past two decades, Yanbian, the Korean Chinese Autonomous Prefecture on the border with North Korea, has been dominated by the so-called Korean Wind, a massive Korean Chinese transnational labor migration to South Korea. Korean Chinese have undertaken this migration as a response to the onset of privatization in China. In so doing, they have built an economy and culture based on remittances sent back by family members working in South Korea. The ethnographic focus in this essay is on those who are waiting for remittances or the return of their loved ones, processes that are conditioned by visa constraints and economic needs. I argue that waiting, for love or money, is unwaged affective work that generates not only a financial safety net but also a binding force between the separated parties. I also argue that waiting as an act of love is eventually transformed into a form of labor that requires managing flows of money, and thereby remakes the expectations and realities of spousal relationships. My ethnography of waiting, which describes betrayals as well as appreciative partners, elaborates on the experiences of those who do not actually migrate but who nonetheless function as key agents sustaining one pole of migration. The work of waiting enables mobility and provides a foundation to migratory circulations.
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Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities examines how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and views of mobile subjects in the vast and rapidly changing continent of Asia. The contributors analyze tensions between the letter of the law and social legitimation, territorial boundaries and commodity flows, state practices and migrant subjectivities, and labour brokerage and national and international organizations. This volume offers key insights for students of globalization and transnationality and policy relevance for development practitioners, governments, and NGOs.
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Zapotecs on the Move
Through interviews with three generations of Yalálag Zapotecs (\"Yaláltecos\") in Los Angeles and Yalálag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in order to delineate migration patterns, community formation in Los Angeles, and the emergence of transnational identities of the first and second generations of Yalálag Zapotecs in the United States, exploring why these immigrants and their descendents now think of themselves as Mexican, Mexican Indian immigrants, Oaxaqueños, and Latinos-identities they did not claim in Mexico.Based on multi-site fieldwork conducted over a five-year period, Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez analyzes how and why Yalálag Zapotec identity and culture have been reconfigured in the United States, using such cultural practices as music, dance, and religious rituals as a lens to bring this dynamic process into focus. By illustrating the sociocultural, economic, and political practices that link immigrants in Los Angeles to those left behind, the book documents how transnational migration has reflected, shaped, and transformed these practices in both their place of origin and immigration.
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