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Thinking migrant capitals intersectionally: using a biographical approach
No full textWhile Bourdieu’s notion of capital is attuned to power differences and inequalities, it has paid scant attention to gender, migration status and ethnicity. Outlining the significance of an intersectional perspective, the chapter focuses on how gendered power relations can work to marginalize migrant women from ethnically-specific social capital. By challenging hegemonic forms of femininity within the migrant group, migrant women may loose their social networks within the migrant group. Yet, the chapter shows how women can build on alternative versions of femininity, and develop alternative strategies to build social capital. The chapter also shows the usefulness of biographical methods for understanding how social and cultural resources can be converted into capital a contradictory process for many migrant women
Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women
Get PDFThe article argues that biographical methods are particularly suited to shift the methodological and theoretical premises of migration research to foreground the agency and subjectivity of migrant women. It is argued that structural and cultural readings can usefully be applied to the self-representations of migrant women. The context of migrant women's self-representations is explored through looking at the story-telling communities they develop and through the expert knowledges of institutions regulating migration. The dichotomisation of unique versus collective modes of life-stories is questioned. Applying the Foucauldian concept of subjugated knowledges, it is argued that migrant women's life-stories hold transformative potential for producing knowledges critical of gendered and ethnocised power relations that research should pay attention to.Migration, Gender, Ethnicity, Life-Story, Methodology, Britain, Germany, Structural and Cultural Readings, Subjugated Knowledges
MOROKVASIC-MULLER Mirjana, EREL Umut, SHINOZAKI Kyoko (éds.), Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries, Vol. 1: Gender on the Move
No full textInternational audience[MOROKVASIC-MULLER Mirjana, EREL Umut, SHINOZAKI Kyoko (éds.), Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries, Vol. 1: Gender on the Move, Opladen, Leske + Budrich, 2003, 312 pages, ISBN 3-8100-3493-2] En 2000, une Université internationale des Femmes a regroupé à Hanovre 900 participantes de 105 pays. Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries, que l’on peut traduire par : « traversant les frontières et déplaçant les limites », est le résultat des travaux présentés dans l’atelier consacré aux femmes dans la migration. Le premier volume (le second est à paraître) est intitulé Gender on the Move (« le genre en mouvement »). Pour les coordinatrices de l’ouvrage, il ne s’agit pas d’utiliser le genre comme un synonyme « politiquement correct » du sexe féminin : le concept de genre est à la fois un processus et une relation. Elles centrent toutefois leurs recherches sur les femmes, dans une perspective compensatoire, puisqu’elles sont marginalisées dans la recherche sur les migrations : la recherche dominante, ou « mainstream », est d’abord « male stream » (centrée sur les mâles) (p. 9)
The change of normative gender orders in the process of migration. A transnational perspective
Get PDFJungwirth I. The change of normative gender orders in the process of migration. A transnational perspective. COMCAD Arbeitspapiere - working papers, 48. Bielefeld: COMCAD - Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development; 2008.In this paper, the question of social change for women as actors of migration is examined. Apart from feminist theory and international gender studies, this topic is located in migration studies and social theory as well. It is proposed to analyse the transformation of gender norms in processes of migration in connection with the changes taking place in the domain of labour, namely the increasing tertiarisation in post-industrial societies on the one hand, and a globalising economy and international distribution of labour following from this on the other. A concept for transnational gender orders is outlined, proposing that, along with these economic and structural processes, normative requirements and ascriptions for social actors are emerging as well. They target the gender performance of women as actors of migration, insofar as an assumed universal gender socialisation as women is becoming a qualification and resource in an international distribution of labour
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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Migrant Capital: Networks, Identities and Strategies
Get PDFMigrant Capital presents state-of-the-art empirical, theoretical and methodological perspectives on migration, networks, social and cultural capital, exploring the ways in which these bodies of literature can inform and strengthen each other. In so doing, it brings the theoretical and methodological dimensions into dialogue with each other. The migrants discussed in the book are ethnically and socio-economically diverse and have a range of migratory trajectories and experiences. Various types of networks are looked at and compared: intra-ethnic and inter-ethnic; locally-based, national and transnational; informal and formal, including migrant community organisations. Migrant Capital is international in focus drawing on research from Australia, North America, the Caribbean and across Europe. Migration research often focuses on individual cases, thereby running the risk of over-emphasising the peculiarities of particular migrant groups and locations, leading to criticisms of empirical nationalism. The range of case studies in this collection can open up a comparative perspective in order to contribute to a broader theoretical framework rooted in empirical research
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