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Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Timothy Dunn
Edward Elgar Publishing
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and María Jesús Cabezón-Fernández
Traditional studies of migration assumed that migrants brought with them a strong sense of place, of the territory of origin and the territory of destination, as well as an uni-directional sense of a return project. Therefore, the current mobility concept is not new, but different due to the emphasis on movement in relation with communications in real-time, on the intense movement of goods, as well as in the instant information conveyed by digital technologies. These are changes in a phenomenon which have brought the emergence of new theoretical paradigms. The objective of this article is to show how migration theories explain current social inequalities, configured as new borders of mobilities and migrations, resulting from new population dynamics linked to the population mobility of people under the light of two brief illustrative cases.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Oxford University Press
This chapter addresses the transformation of geopolitical lines and borders in a globalizing world. In the Middle East, this transformation has been accompanied by severe social inequalities that have been expressed in a number of different ways: increasing limitations placed on the mobility of refugees and migrants, yet decreasing limitations on the cross-border flow of goods; a proliferation of refugee encampments and settlements (formal and informal); human vulnerability and rights violations; and expanded border securitization. In the case of Lebanon, these processes play out in especially stark fashion in big cities and border sites. This chapter focuses on one such site in an area of Lebanon: the Central Bekaa. It is important to start by looking at the context of borders and mobility in the Middle East. This chapter is based on original research that aims to provide an examination of certain aspects of borders and mobility, including the transnational circulation of displaced communities, cross-border networks, and how Syrian refugees in the Middle East—especially in Lebanon—navigate borders and deploy their own social capital in the process.
Josiah Heyman and Natalia Ribas-Mateos
OpenEdition
How can anthropologists and sociologists share ideas and knowledge on the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico borders to deepen insight and understanding? The best-known comparison is militarized border enforcement, plus humanitarianism, posed against asylum seeking and irregular migration. But, more complex mobility occurs at these borders, including privileged and other differentiated and sorted mobilities. Interwoven with these mobilities, commerce of many scales and degrees of legality occurs, supporting complicated cultural worlds of informality and exchange. Borders require not just a political analysis, but also attention to capital. Importantly, borders (immediate and extended) have become increasingly important sites of export-oriented production in the world economy. The processes of interchange at borders, in turn, support important urban zones and other communities that merit close ethnographic study for their social and cultural complexity.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Routledge
The Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization is a welcome corrective to the tendency to present globalization as a homogenous concept, and the failure to describe how it operates in specific regions. Ribas-Mateos examines globalization and migration across the Mediterranean, using an innovative, integrated framework so as to map social places by describing how social, political, cultural, and economic forces are embedded within a globalizing environment. The author articulates an original and compelling narrative, mapping the Mediterranean as a global place where international and regional forces are intertwined in multiple threads. In doing so, she identifies two key components of globalization - affecting specifically forms of welfare and issues of mobility - in the context of a weakening European welfare state and the relocation and reinforcement of Mediterranean borders. Nine Mediterranean cities are investigated as "gateway" cities, which shape two major effects of globalization: welfare and mobility. The book challenges conventional North-South perspectives, and focuses and systematizes the way international migration should be conceptualized. The originality of the book results from the author's fieldwork, which is rich in descriptive detail, and from a theory centered around global perspectives. Seven case studies in Southern Europe - Algeciras, Athens, Barcelona, Lisbon, Naples, Turin, and Thrace - deal with issues related to migration and the welfare state. She also includes two ethnographies that represent two Mediterranean gateways in the North-South Mediterranean division: Tangiers (in Morocco) and Durres (in Albania), which are mapped as border-cities in the global Mediterranean context. Because of its intrinsically multidisciplinary nature, this superb volume will be of particular interest to academics and social science researchers as well as policymakers and international agencies.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Edward Elgar Publishing
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Edward Elgar Publishing
M. Solís
Routledge
pación femenina, como mano de obra poco calificada y de baja remuneración, ha sido fundamental para el sostenimien to del modelo de desarrollo económico vigente. Así, las fronteras de estudio se conciben como espacios que amplían las formas de participación de las muje res más allá del ámbito doméstico; pero, al mismo tiempo, las exponen a distintas formas de vulnerabilidad. Esta dicotomía entre autonomía y vulnerabilidad constituye el nodo conceptual que articula los diferentes capítulos del libro, lo que acerca esta obra a la perspectiva analítica de Sassen (2003), quien subraya la dualidad entre la feminización de la sobrevivencia y las posibilidades de emancipación que ofrecen las ciudades fronterizas para las mujeres. La globalización ha propiciado una ver tiginosa transformación en los roles atribuidos a hombres y mujeres, especialmente en los contextos fronterizos, al promover la incorporación masiva de las mujeres en los mercados de trabajo y la creciente participación femenina en los f lujos migratorios. En este escenario, Gender Transitions Along Borders. The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco representa un esfuerzo colectivo por comprender las transiciones que ex pe rimentan las mujeres en la frontera norte de México y la de Marruecos a partir de los cambios ocurridos en los roles de género en cuatro ámbitos: el tra bajo, la familia, la sexualidad y la participación colectiva. La comparación de ambas fronteras es pertinente porque en ellas la partici-
Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Edward Elgar Publishing
The International Handbook on Gender, Migration and Transnationalism represents a state-of-the-art review of the critical importance of the links between gender and migration in a globalising world. It draws on original, largely field-based contributions by authors across a range of disciplinary provenances worldwide.
Laura Oso and Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Edward Elgar Publishing
This first chapter to the handbook encourages readers to conceptualize the introduction of a gender perspective on mobilities into a cartography of global chains and circuits. This is done in order to present a particular field on gender and migration studies, specifically in relation to the important works, concepts, debates and trends found in the different chapters and which we think should constitute a comprehensive overall work for many years to come. This introduction addresses the challenge of summarizing extensive areas of literature as well as describing the written work from which it is drawn, It provides an extensive bibliography, which also indicates further reading in the selected topics of interest. our point of departure is that this new phase in the study of global mobilities follows on from considering previous studies, first within the scope of gender and development, and second in terms of gender and migration analysis. More specifically, this introduction examines the connections between gender, migration, development and transnationalism in the context of globalization. The contributions in this volume address, one way or another, the terms of such connection between the different axes, which have somehow become parts of the book. Theoretically and operationally, such connections are strategic and capable of illuminating the issues at hand. They provide the elements that will enable us to explore the contents of the handbook, be they theoretical or empirical, by introducing a vast range of case studies, examples drawn from around the world. each of the chapters presented here illustrates in different ways gender and mobilities in the processes of globalization. over the past two decades there has been growing academic and policy interest in gender and migration, resulting, as we shall see, in a very productive literature. research has centred mainly on the analysis of the reproductive role of migrant women, as domestic servants, sex workers and caregivers within the process of globalization (Truong, 1996; hochschild, 2000; Parrenas, 2001a; ehrenreich and hochschild 2002; among others).
Laura Oso Casas and Natalia Ribas Mateos
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Desde que, en los anos ochenta, Espana empieza a constituirse en un pais de inmigracion, las mujeres han tenido un papel determinante en la configuracion de los flujos de entrada y de las comunidades asentadas, no solo en lo que se refiere a su representacion numerica, sino en tanto agentes economicos y sociales. Ya en los anos noventa, los primeros trabajos que abordaron la inmigracion femenina en este pais apuntaron en esta linea, sacando a la luz el rol de las mujeres inmigrantes como pioneras de las cadenas migratorias, en el contexto del surgimiento de flujos migratorios feminizados por nacionalidad en el sur de Europa. Entre los primeros trabajos, destacaron las monografias por nacionalidad (Gregorio, 1998; Ramirez, 1998; Ribas, 1999), asi como los analisis sobre la insercion laboral de las mujeres inmigrantes, principalmente en el sector del servicio domestico (Colectivo IOE, 2001; Escriva, 2003; Herranz, 1996; Oso, 1998; Parella, 2003; Sole, 1994). Investigaciones que coincidieron en sacar a la luz como estos movimientos poblacionales ya no reproducian el estereotipo de la mujer reagrupada. Sumario
E. Spaan, F. Hillmann and T. V. Naerssen
Routledge
In an era of globalization and demographic transition international migration has become an important issue for European governments. The past decades have seen an increasing and diversifying flow of migrants from different parts of the world, including many from South, Southeast and East Asia. It has become apparent that in several European countries the demand for workers in certain sectors of the labour market is increasing and that Asia has become the source for these workers.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
Informa UK Limited
The purpose of this paper is to set a general framework for this themed issue of JEMS in order to understand the notion of Southern European countries as an ensemble in relation to their migratory system. The proposed theoretical framework is based on a triadic relationship composed of the impact of global economic processes, a weak and familistic welfare state and a dynamic informal economy. The paper also incorporates and integrates some of the conceptual ideas deriving from other papers in this special issue.