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- Migration studies, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Family and Intimate Lives, School Guidance and Counseling, Class, Transnational Families, Immigration, Migration Studies, and 22 moreGender and Race, Race and Ethnicity, International Migration and Immigration Policy, Place and Identity, Irregular Migration, Migrant Domestic Workers, Immigration Studies, Social reproduction, Transnational migration, Gender Studies, Social Policy, Immigrant children, Undocumented Immigration, Migration, Transnationalism, School Choice, Labor Migration, Sociology of Migration, Teachers Practices, Sociology, Domestic workers, and Border Studiesedit
Le situazioni emergenziali – dagli eventi climatici estremi alle crisi umanitarie, economiche e sanitarie – possono rivitalizzare e, al tempo stesso, trasformare il campo del volontariato. Favorendo l’attivazione di individui con un... more
Le situazioni emergenziali – dagli eventi climatici estremi alle crisi umanitarie, economiche e sanitarie – possono rivitalizzare e, al tempo stesso, trasformare il campo del volontariato. Favorendo l’attivazione di individui con un profilo più eterogeneo da quelli che sono soliti mettersi in gioco attorno a specifiche istanze, possono sollecitare la nascita di nuove realtà e di nuovi approcci per affrontare bisogni emergenti, aprendo ad opportunità inedite di innovazione sociale ed a possibili forme di ibridazione tra volontariato ed attivismo.
Il volume restituisce gli esiti di una ricerca basata su numerose interviste a volontari impegnati a fornire supporto a migranti in diverse condizioni di bisogno in un arco di tempo delimitato da due crisi: la “crisi dei rifugiati” del 2015 e la crisi pandemica del 2020. Lo studio mostra che i volontari possono giocare un ruolo importante nel favorire traiettorie di avanzamento, autonomia ed inclusione. Attraverso relazioni che si affiancano e, al contempo, si distinguono da quelle professionali, contribuiscono ad animare diverse visioni e pratiche di cura, mediando l’accesso a risorse di particolare rilievo e contribuendo così a rinegoziare i confini della cittadinanza sociale.
Queste forme di aiuto, solidarietà e sostegno rendono quello dell’impegno a favore dei – e con i – migranti un campo complesso, articolato e plurale, attraversato da molteplici trasformazioni, in cui le crisi hanno lasciato tracce persistenti.
Il volume restituisce gli esiti di una ricerca basata su numerose interviste a volontari impegnati a fornire supporto a migranti in diverse condizioni di bisogno in un arco di tempo delimitato da due crisi: la “crisi dei rifugiati” del 2015 e la crisi pandemica del 2020. Lo studio mostra che i volontari possono giocare un ruolo importante nel favorire traiettorie di avanzamento, autonomia ed inclusione. Attraverso relazioni che si affiancano e, al contempo, si distinguono da quelle professionali, contribuiscono ad animare diverse visioni e pratiche di cura, mediando l’accesso a risorse di particolare rilievo e contribuendo così a rinegoziare i confini della cittadinanza sociale.
Queste forme di aiuto, solidarietà e sostegno rendono quello dell’impegno a favore dei – e con i – migranti un campo complesso, articolato e plurale, attraversato da molteplici trasformazioni, in cui le crisi hanno lasciato tracce persistenti.
Forthcoming in Mulholland J., Montagna N. and Sanders-McDonagh E., Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century, Palgrave.
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The 2020 regularisation for irregular migrant workers in Italy relied extensively on civil society actors' (CSAs) involvement to provide information, legal support and handle the bureaucratic procedures of the programme. Based on... more
The 2020 regularisation for irregular migrant workers in Italy relied extensively on civil society actors' (CSAs) involvement to provide information, legal support and handle the bureaucratic procedures of the programme. Based on qualitative research carried out with CSAs, migrants and employers involved in the programme, the article describes the heterogeneity of the CSAs involved as well as the different politicisation routes they followed. We show that, through a series of activities-information provision, preparing and sending applications, institutional lobbying and case advocacy, civil disobedience and protest-CSAs have attempted to repoliticise the amnesty through four different avenues: solidarity, debordering, empowering and contention.
Insider family citizens—that is, people who, according to their nationality/legal status and the possession of crucial resources for the settlement of their relatives in a foreign context—occupy an especially important place within a wide... more
Insider family citizens—that is, people who, according to their nationality/legal status and the possession of crucial resources for the settlement of their relatives in a foreign context—occupy an especially important place within a wide and diversified set of family relationships. Drawing on qualitative interviews with migrant women and children in mixed-status families in Italy and France, we argue that they can act as ‘membership intermediaries’ towards migrant spouses and a wider set of kin. First, facilitating non-citizen relatives’ formal incorporation in receiving countries through the provision of specially privileged forms of legality. Second, providing various resources for migrants’ informal incorporation, including housing ownership, additional income, emotional, and cultural capital. Nonetheless, the ambivalent dependencies these processes trigger can become sources of contention, heightening gender and intergenerational power imbalances in the household.
(Italiano) In Italia, l'insediamento di immigrati di fede cristiana sta introducendo un visibile fenomeno di pluralizzazione e de-occidentalizzazione del cristianesimo, e della stessa chiesa cattolica; nonostante il dibattito sulla... more
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In Italia, l'insediamento di immigrati di fede cristiana sta introducendo un visibile fenomeno di pluralizzazione e de-occidentalizzazione del cristianesimo, e della stessa chiesa cattolica; nonostante il dibattito sulla presenza islamica, si deve infatti notare come il pluralismo religioso sia una dinamica che in prima istanza concerne il «nostro cristianesimo», meno «italiano», rispetto al passato. Questo articolo analizza in chiave comparativa sei significative esperienze religiose nella città di Milano. Confrontando chiese di matrice evangelica e comunità di immigrati cattolici si possono infatti cogliere analogie e differenze tra queste nuove varianti religiose, generate dall'esperienza migratoria ed etnicamente connotate. Abbiamo da una parte comunità sostanzialmente autocefale, che devono ingegnarsi a trovare gli spazi per insediarsi; dall'altra comunità affiliate alla chiesa maggioritaria, ma non sempre facilmente integrate nel sistema ecclesiastico cattolico, in cui inseriscono elementi nuovi e anomali. Un altro filo dell'analisi ha riguardato le domande che muovono i fedeli e li accostano alle chiese: le motivazioni e i bisogni che li animano nel cercare un centro religioso, le domande che li conducono a frequentarlo, a farne un luogo familiare, ad assumervi degli impegni, le pratiche a cui danno vita, spesso come contrappunto a una quotidianità faticosa e sacrificata. Un ultimo profilo dell'indagine ha approfondito le attività che le chiese propongono e intorno a cui aggregano i fedeli: attività riguardanti la sfera spirituale, dal culto alla catechesi, allo studio biblico, ma anche attività che debordano dall'ambito strettamente religioso per coinvolgere la dimensione della socialità, della cultura, dell'educazione, dell'impegno solidaristico. La religione non è mai solo religione, ma anche altro: un'esperienza sociale complessa e sfaccettata. Forse nel caso dei migranti questo è ancora più vero.
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The settlement of Christian immigrants in Italy, is producing an evident phenomenon of pluralisation and de-Westernization of Christianity, including Catholicism; first of all, despite the debate on Islamization, pluralism concerns the main Italian religious denominations. This study has explored six ethnic Churches in Milan, both Catholic and evangelical. From a comparative perspective, the paper grasps analogies and differences among these new versions of Christianity, created by migrants and with a clear ethnic connotation. On the one hand, we find autocephalous realities, which must contend their sacred-space; on the other, these communities are affiliated to the main Church, but not always easily integrated into the Catholic ecclesiastical system, to which they bring new and anomalous elements.
In Italia, l'insediamento di immigrati di fede cristiana sta introducendo un visibile fenomeno di pluralizzazione e de-occidentalizzazione del cristianesimo, e della stessa chiesa cattolica; nonostante il dibattito sulla presenza islamica, si deve infatti notare come il pluralismo religioso sia una dinamica che in prima istanza concerne il «nostro cristianesimo», meno «italiano», rispetto al passato. Questo articolo analizza in chiave comparativa sei significative esperienze religiose nella città di Milano. Confrontando chiese di matrice evangelica e comunità di immigrati cattolici si possono infatti cogliere analogie e differenze tra queste nuove varianti religiose, generate dall'esperienza migratoria ed etnicamente connotate. Abbiamo da una parte comunità sostanzialmente autocefale, che devono ingegnarsi a trovare gli spazi per insediarsi; dall'altra comunità affiliate alla chiesa maggioritaria, ma non sempre facilmente integrate nel sistema ecclesiastico cattolico, in cui inseriscono elementi nuovi e anomali. Un altro filo dell'analisi ha riguardato le domande che muovono i fedeli e li accostano alle chiese: le motivazioni e i bisogni che li animano nel cercare un centro religioso, le domande che li conducono a frequentarlo, a farne un luogo familiare, ad assumervi degli impegni, le pratiche a cui danno vita, spesso come contrappunto a una quotidianità faticosa e sacrificata. Un ultimo profilo dell'indagine ha approfondito le attività che le chiese propongono e intorno a cui aggregano i fedeli: attività riguardanti la sfera spirituale, dal culto alla catechesi, allo studio biblico, ma anche attività che debordano dall'ambito strettamente religioso per coinvolgere la dimensione della socialità, della cultura, dell'educazione, dell'impegno solidaristico. La religione non è mai solo religione, ma anche altro: un'esperienza sociale complessa e sfaccettata. Forse nel caso dei migranti questo è ancora più vero.
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The settlement of Christian immigrants in Italy, is producing an evident phenomenon of pluralisation and de-Westernization of Christianity, including Catholicism; first of all, despite the debate on Islamization, pluralism concerns the main Italian religious denominations. This study has explored six ethnic Churches in Milan, both Catholic and evangelical. From a comparative perspective, the paper grasps analogies and differences among these new versions of Christianity, created by migrants and with a clear ethnic connotation. On the one hand, we find autocephalous realities, which must contend their sacred-space; on the other, these communities are affiliated to the main Church, but not always easily integrated into the Catholic ecclesiastical system, to which they bring new and anomalous elements.
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The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the experiences of migrants who have engaged in the last employment-based amnesties in Italy. To cross the illegal/legal divide migrants have to successfully perform societal expectations in... more
The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the experiences of migrants who have engaged in the last employment-based amnesties in Italy. To cross the illegal/legal divide migrants have to successfully perform societal expectations in terms of more or less deserving kinds of work embedded in legalization measures. The moral economy of domestic work favours the creation of employer–employee relationships, which – while sometimes highly exploitative – are more frequently capitalized for legalization purposes. Male workers have been instead disadvantaged by the frequent lack of long-term, dependent work positions and by policies’ favourable stance towards domestic work. However, migrants actively challenge marginalization manoeuvring their work identities through a varied network of intermediaries to exploit the greater legitimization of domestic work in a context marked by compliance and weak gatekeeping. The paper contributes to the literature on irregularity showing how work-related legalization processes are achieved and the role gender plays in this process.
Research Interests: Immigration, Immigration Studies, Migration, Irregular Migration, Immigration Law, and 18 moreLabor Migration, Immigration And Integration In Europe, Undocumented Immigration, Migration Studies, Sociology of Migration, Contemporary International Migration, Domestic workers, International Migration and Immigration Policy, Migrant workers, Undocumented Migration, Migrant Domestic Workers, International domestic workers, Migration and undocumented migrants, Gender and Migration, Undocumented Immigrant Students and Learning, Migration studies, Gender Studies, Sociology of the Family and Intimate Lives, Illegal Migration, and Immigration Status & Nationality
The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the impact of family migration policies on Latin American migrants in Italy. As the data collected reveals, the right to family life is differently accessed and regulated along lines of... more
The paper provides a qualitative exploration of the impact of family migration policies on Latin American migrants in Italy. As the data collected reveals, the right to family life is differently accessed and regulated along lines of nationality/ethnicity, gender and class, reflected in more or less rigidly constrained formal and informal reunification pathways, which differently affect gender, intergenerational and care relationships in the family. While Italy, compared to other European countries, still regulates the matter in a relatively generous way, the increasing restrictions, matched with widespread informality in labour and housing markets, make access to this fundamental human right highly uneven and stratified.
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The aim of this paper is to provide an exploration of the work–family reconciliation processes of immigrant working mothers in Italy, through the analysis of fifty-six qualitative interviews carried out with Latin American and Eastern... more
The aim of this paper is to provide an exploration of the work–family reconciliation processes of immigrant working mothers in Italy, through the analysis of fifty-six qualitative interviews carried out with Latin American and Eastern European female workers with at least one minor child living in Milan. The study highlights the strategies they followed to manage work and childcare under the unfavorable conditions posed by the intertwining effects of immigration, care, and employment regimes. These, leading to limited social and employment rights, also influence their kinds of participation in the labor market and constrain the geographical mobility of their family members, leading women to enact (over time but also simultaneously) pluri-local care strategies. While these can be interpreted as a further resource available to migrant families, they can also be seen as the outcome of a partial inclusion into the host society, showing new forms of inequality in the access of social care.
Research Interests: Immigration, Domestic workers, Immigrant families & policy, International Migration and Immigration Policy, Migration policies, and 6 moreMigrant Domestic Workers, Transnational Families, Gender and Migration, Comparative Social Policy. Welfare State Research. Sociology of Work. Migration and care, Gender and Family Migration, and Migration Policy In EU Countries
In Italy, as in other European countries, students of foreign origin are over-represented in the vocational school tracks, with relevant consequences on their limited chances of attaining a university degree. While research has long... more
In Italy, as in other European countries, students of foreign origin are over-represented in the vocational school tracks, with relevant consequences on their limited chances of attaining a university degree. While research has long underlined the weight that a family’s social, cultural and economic capital has on a child’s school performance, educational expectations and choices, the role that school and teachers themselves play in the transition from lower to upper secondary school has been rarely explored in Italian sociological research. The present study aims to bridge this gap in the literature, showing how teachers’ orienting practices, interacting with highly differentiated patterns of family participation in the school guidance process, can play a relevant role in reproducing foreign-origin students’ segregation into the lower tracks of the school system.
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""The article explores the experiences of separation and reunification undergone by the children of migrant mothers in Italy by analysing 32 qualitative interviews conducted with adolescents who had rejoined their mothers at different... more
""The article explores the experiences of separation and reunification undergone by the children of migrant mothers in Italy by analysing 32 qualitative interviews conducted with adolescents who had rejoined their mothers at different moments in their lives.
We show that international migration causes children to face multiple shifts in the configuration of their family ties due to the geographical dislocations and re-locations to which these ties are subject. The way in which children interpret and adjust to these changes depends on factors such as the timing of the family migration process and the frequency of transnational family practices, which subject then to more or less abrupt discontinuities in their family life after their mothers’ and their own departure.""
We show that international migration causes children to face multiple shifts in the configuration of their family ties due to the geographical dislocations and re-locations to which these ties are subject. The way in which children interpret and adjust to these changes depends on factors such as the timing of the family migration process and the frequency of transnational family practices, which subject then to more or less abrupt discontinuities in their family life after their mothers’ and their own departure.""
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While the issue of cultural diversity in the field of formal education is receiving growing attention from scholars, after-school programs still qualify as under-researched educational contexts, despite the strong role they can play in... more
While the issue of cultural diversity in the field of formal education is receiving growing attention from scholars, after-school programs still qualify as under-researched educational contexts, despite the strong role they can play in terms of social integration of both native and immigrant youth. The aim of this paper is to understand how intercultural integration in the field of informal education can be concretely achieved, managed and enacted in two “tipical” research contexts - an Italian Oratorio and a Juvenile Aggregation Centre (CAG) -, characterized by different strategies to deal with ethnic diversity. This qualitative study, carried out through participant observation and in-depth interviews with teens and educators, shows that specific organizational patterns (both in terms of recruiting strategies and educational offer) can lead to very different outcomes in terms of intercultural relations and social cohesion of native and immigrant youth.
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In this paper, I analyse the changes that mothers and children experience in their relationship due to the physical separations and reunions entailed by the international migration process. I argue that the different geographical... more
In this paper, I analyse the changes that mothers and children experience in their relationship due to the physical separations and reunions entailed by the international migration process. I argue that the different geographical configurations that migrant families take over time are the outcome of a negotiation of care responsibility and desired geographies of family life, and are accompanied by changing meanings and practices in intimate relationships: the location of care relationships is influenced by the relatives' capacity both to take part in family negotiations as well as to overcome the constraints imposed by policies. Time is relevant because it leads to shifting meanings and practices of transnational family life, as well as to the changing role of children in the family.
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In this article I provide an understanding of the challenges that immigrants have to face to relocate their nuclear families abroad. I will show that immigrants are often forced to leave their dependent relatives behind for much longer... more
In this article I provide an understanding of the challenges that immigrants have to face to relocate their nuclear families abroad. I will show that immigrants are often forced to leave their dependent relatives behind for much longer than expected, and that, despite their efforts to maintain intimacy at distance, the transnational managing of remittances and care entails certain risks. Both the separation experienced and the living conditions that reunited members face in Italy can make reunification itself a very sensitive moment in the life-course of these families, since the process of adaptation to the receiving society leads relatives to reshape and renegotiate their respective family roles and responsibilities. We are going to highlight how the availability of extended ties can represent a concrete form of support for many immigrant couples and lone mothers both during the separation and in their struggle to reunite their relatives, as well as after the reunification has taken place.
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The paper explores how mother-child relationships are repeatedly re-structured by the physical separations and reunions entailed by international migration. It is argued that shifts in the family’s geographical configuration are... more
The paper explores how mother-child relationships are repeatedly re-structured by the physical separations and reunions entailed by international migration. It is argued that shifts in the family’s geographical configuration are accompanied by changes in the meanings and practices of motherhood. These are influenced by the timing of transnational family life in terms of frequency of transnational exchanges and intersection of the migratory process with the family’s life course. The analysis is applied to the case of female domestic workers in Italy, through qualitative interviews carried out with migrant mothers and children.
Diversi studi evidenziano che i nuclei familiari, nel corso del processo migratorio, sono spesso costretti ad affrontare eventi che radicalmente trasformano il modo in cui i membri intendono e praticano l’appartenenza, le solidarietà, le... more
Diversi studi evidenziano che i nuclei familiari, nel corso del processo migratorio, sono spesso costretti ad affrontare eventi che radicalmente trasformano il modo in cui i membri intendono e praticano l’appartenenza, le solidarietà, le reciprocità.Lo scopo di questo saggio è quello di rintracciare, attraverso le categorie più frequentemente utilizzate in letteratura, le esperienze tipiche che affrontano i/le migranti in quanto membri di unità familiari, sottolineando l’urgenza di un maggior interesse nei confronti di un fenomeno tanto cruciale quanto ancora poco indagato, vale a dire quello del ricongiungimento familiare nella molteplicità delle sue forme e nella complessità delle esperienze che genera.
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Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international... more
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research on family migrations and migrant families remain separate from – and sometimes ignorant of – each other. This volume seeks to bridge the disciplinary divides. Fifteen chapters come up with a number of common themes. Collectively, the authors address the need to better understand the diversity of family-related migration and its resulting family forms and practices, to question, if not counter, simplistic assumptions about migrant families in public discourses, to study family migration from a mix of disciplinary perspectives at various levels and via different methodological approaches and to acknowledge the state’s role in shaping family-related migration, practices and lives.
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Panel on minorities and (legal/political) justice, at the international conference "Ethnography and qualitative research'" (Bergamo, June 6-9, 2018). The submission deadline is January 15, 2018. Conference website:... more
Panel on minorities and (legal/political) justice, at the international conference "Ethnography and qualitative research'" (Bergamo, June 6-9, 2018).
The submission deadline is January 15, 2018.
Conference website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/
The submission deadline is January 15, 2018.
Conference website: http://www.etnografiaricercaqualitativa.it/
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Symposium organized by Saskia Bonjour and Sebastien Chauvin within the "Class in the 21st Century" conference. Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS) 22-23 October 2015 University of Amsterdam 1) Class and the policy... more
Symposium organized by Saskia Bonjour and Sebastien Chauvin within the "Class in the 21st Century" conference.
Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS)
22-23 October 2015
University of Amsterdam
1) Class and the policy construction of the (un)deserving migrant
Immigration policies create categories of people that distinguish between those allowed to enter and stay in destination countries, and those to whom borders stayed closed. A substantial body of scholarly work explores the ways in which these politics of belonging are shaped by conceptions of national identity, ethnicity and race. Increasingly, there has also been attention to the role of constructions of gender and sexuality in shaping immigration politics. While intersectional approaches to the analysis of immigration policies are thus on the rise, the role of class, and its intertwinement with other axes of inequality, has remained remarkably underexplored. The first two panel of the symposium ask which role class plays in the construction of the ‘(un)desirable’ migrant in political debate and policies. How are different requirements relating not only to income but also to education, housing and even national origin or ‘integration’ related to class? How does class intersect with ethnicity on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other hand in construing degrees of desirability? Do we observe class serving as a proxy for ethnicity, or vice versa, in political debates and policies?
2) Class in mobility strategies and migration experiences
While class figures at various degrees in migration policy, it also shapes the strategies and experiences of transnational migrants. Class defines the resource inequalities that separate those who are able to migrate from those who lack the means to travel. It also determines the array of conditions that drive people to want to leave or not, whether in reference to local competition in origin communities or through classed imaginaries of success associated with destination countries. Together with gender and age, class cultures inform the nature of migration decisions and the types of collective expectations invested in individual migrants. The last two panels of the symposium asks which role class plays in constraining and shaping the agency of international migrants, the differences in prestige between various groups of migrants, and internal conflicts within diasporas. How do class differences translate into various experiences of transnational marriage and family migration? How does class become relevant for asylum seekers persecuted for their sexual or gender identity? Does class play out in value conflicts over gender and sexuality within migrant communities in destination countries? How do migrant men and women navigate and perform gendered and class expectations embedded into host country migration policies? Do policy categories only function as constraints, or can they also become resources to strategize with?
Amsterdam Research Center on Gender and Sexuality (ARC GS)
22-23 October 2015
University of Amsterdam
1) Class and the policy construction of the (un)deserving migrant
Immigration policies create categories of people that distinguish between those allowed to enter and stay in destination countries, and those to whom borders stayed closed. A substantial body of scholarly work explores the ways in which these politics of belonging are shaped by conceptions of national identity, ethnicity and race. Increasingly, there has also been attention to the role of constructions of gender and sexuality in shaping immigration politics. While intersectional approaches to the analysis of immigration policies are thus on the rise, the role of class, and its intertwinement with other axes of inequality, has remained remarkably underexplored. The first two panel of the symposium ask which role class plays in the construction of the ‘(un)desirable’ migrant in political debate and policies. How are different requirements relating not only to income but also to education, housing and even national origin or ‘integration’ related to class? How does class intersect with ethnicity on the one hand and gender and sexuality on the other hand in construing degrees of desirability? Do we observe class serving as a proxy for ethnicity, or vice versa, in political debates and policies?
2) Class in mobility strategies and migration experiences
While class figures at various degrees in migration policy, it also shapes the strategies and experiences of transnational migrants. Class defines the resource inequalities that separate those who are able to migrate from those who lack the means to travel. It also determines the array of conditions that drive people to want to leave or not, whether in reference to local competition in origin communities or through classed imaginaries of success associated with destination countries. Together with gender and age, class cultures inform the nature of migration decisions and the types of collective expectations invested in individual migrants. The last two panels of the symposium asks which role class plays in constraining and shaping the agency of international migrants, the differences in prestige between various groups of migrants, and internal conflicts within diasporas. How do class differences translate into various experiences of transnational marriage and family migration? How does class become relevant for asylum seekers persecuted for their sexual or gender identity? Does class play out in value conflicts over gender and sexuality within migrant communities in destination countries? How do migrant men and women navigate and perform gendered and class expectations embedded into host country migration policies? Do policy categories only function as constraints, or can they also become resources to strategize with?
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Forthcoming in Mulholland J., Montagna N. and Sanders-McDonagh E., Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality in the 21st Century, Palgrave.