Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Author: Ilse Lenz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3663095274

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This volume introduces a gender dimension and provides new insights in the issues like nationalism and racism, identity building, transnational networking, citizenship and democracy.


Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries

Author: M. Morokvasic-Müller

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 3663095290

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The two volumes Gender and Migration: crossing borders and shifting boundaries offer an interdisciplinary perspective on women and men on the move today, exploring the diversification of migratory patterns and its implication in different parts of the world. It reflects the vibrant scholarly debates as well as unique learning and teaching experiences of the Project Area Migration, the International Women's University. While pointing to historical continuities, it is shown how contemporary ways of bridging time and space are shaped by the new opportunities - or lack of them - related to the process of globalization. This shaping is gendered. Gendering migration paves the way for further intersectional analysis. Vol. I critically examinesmobility, globalization and migration policy from a gender perspective. It includes case studies on internal and international migratory processes inand from Latin America, Europe, Africa, Asia and North America. Furthermore it makes an important contribution to the issue of agency and empowerment emerging from migrant women's experience.


Reframing Demographic Change in Europe

Reframing Demographic Change in Europe

Author: Heike Kahlert

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3643104111

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Demographic change in Europe has been a topic of great public and political interest since the 1990s. The central aim of this book is to create new questions for research by connecting the topics of demographic change, of the restructuring of the welfare state and of change in gender relations. The articles have a closer look at the interrelation of these social and political changes by highlighting different national situations as well as different theoretical and empirical aspects. They try to reframe the 'problem' of demographic change by analyzing it in the context of gender and welfare state transformations.


Afghan Women

Afghan Women

Author: Elaheh Rostami-Povey

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1848135998

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Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at how women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within Afghanistan and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and the UK. Looking at issues from violence under the Taliban and the impact of 9/11 to the role of NGOs and the growth in the opium economy, Rostami-Povey gets behind the media hype and presents a vibrant and diverse picture of these women's lives. The future of women's rights in Afghanistan, she argues, depends not only on overcoming local male domination, but also on challenging imperial domination and blurring the growing divide between the West and the Muslim world. Ultimately, these global dynamics may pose a greater threat to the freedom and autonomy of women in Afghanistan and throughout the world.


Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration

Author: Sine Agergaard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1135939381

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Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female player is only deemed possible in approximately 20 out of around 150 FIFA-listed women’s soccer countries. This has led to a situation where highly skilled sports women have to migrate from their homelands to find employment with a professional team. Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration represents a substantial contribution to our knowledge on the development of women’s soccer, to research into sports labor migration and sport and globalization more broadly. The book consists of three parts. Firstly, it provides an overview and an analysis of migration in women's soccer from its earliest forms until now. It then presents several case studies, delivered by scholars from around the world, illustrating how female players are increasingly being drawn to the USA, Northern Europe and Scandinavia due to their ability to support professional leagues. Finally, all the themes and patterns of these case studies are drawn together to be able to compare and contrast migration in women's soccer to sport migration and globalization more broadly. This study not only makes recommendations for future researchers, but may also serve as an important source of information for those in charge of policy. As such, it is essential reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners involved in sports migration and women's sport.


Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

Changing Gender Norms in Islam Between Reason and Revelation

Author: Marziyeh Bakhshizadeh

Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich

Published: 2018-07-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 3863882989

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Women‘s movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality. She investigates women’s rights in Iran since the 1979 Revolution from the perspectives of the main currents of Islamic thought, fundamentalists, reformists, and seculars, using a sociological explanation.


Navigating Borders

Navigating Borders

Author: Ilse van Liempt

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9053569308

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A fascinating study provides an inside perspective into human smuggling processes.


Migrant Nurses

Migrant Nurses

Author: Andrea Winkelmann-Gleed

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-10-30

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1498790534

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The NHS and independent healthcare sectors increasingly depend on the contributions of the migrant workforce to make up for serious shortfalls in staff numbers. This book analyses the motivation required for nurses to migrate, their experience of integration and the important contribution they can make in the healthcare environment. Based on quantitative and qualitative research conducted among migrant and refugee nurses, this book includes many first-hand accounts from individuals adapting to working life in the United Kingdom. It covers areas such as diversity, relationships, problems, cultural understanding and exclusion, as well as taking an overall look at migration, ethnicity and employment. "Migrant Nurses" is a practical handbook that provides vital information for human resources managers in the NHS and private healthcare sectors, diversity managers and mentors. It provides great insight for researchers interested in organisational behaviour, healthcare and development studies. Policy makers and shapers will find it helpful and community groups working with migrants and refugees will also find it valuable.