Women on the Move: Stalled Gender Revolution in Global Migration

Carolyn Choi; Maria Cecilia Hwang; Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76333-0_36

Women on the Move: Stalled Gender Revolution in Global Migration

Carolyn Choi, Maria Cecilia Hwang, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

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Abstract

This chapter examines how structural inequalities of gender including the ideology of female domesticity, non-egalitarian division of household labor, sex-segmented labor market, and a glass ceiling shape the independent migration of women. It empirically traces gendered inequalities in transnational households, labor migration, and educational migration. Questioning the dominant feminist paradigm on gender and migration which assumes that migration is a gender equalizing process, we argue that while women achieve some gains in status and in their interpersonal relations, their experiences remain unequivocally structured by gender inequities resulting in a gender stall in women’s global migration.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	493-506
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76333-0_36
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
ISSN (Print)	1389-6903
ISSN (Electronic)	2542-839X

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Social Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Psychology (miscellaneous)

Keywords

Educational migration
Gender stall
Labor migration
Migrant domestic work
Transnational mothering

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