E Kofman
Biographic Data
| ID | 18973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Kofman |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kofman |
| SIGNATURE | KOFMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3439-2017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1107 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Intergenerational Care and Intersecting Inequalities Among Transnational Families in Europe
This special issue has a central focus on intergenerational spaces of care , which have been rather under‐explored in studies of transnational families to date. In this introduction, we outline the potential innovative contribution of care ethics to understanding intergenerational caring relations within and across borders, showing how several papers in the special issue are enriched by this conceptual framing. The special issue also advances und…
From Babel to Bridge
This article discusses emerging findings from a large‐scale study undertaken in 12 diverse areas of England focused on reducing health inequalities for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant populations. Working with multilingual populations has posed both ethical and practical considerations throughout the design and implementation of this co‐produced participatory research project. Despite our deep‐rooted commitment to working collaboratively wi…
Integration Discourses, the Purification of Gender and Interventions in Family Migrations
In a critique of integration, Schinkel (Citation2018) highlights the purification of class and race which evacuates explanatory variables from studies of integration as a concept and practice. Surprisingly gendered purification is left out. This article argues that a range of gender issues presenting migrant women, especially from Muslim countries, as being deficient in modernity and contributing to poor social reproduction through their family p…
China and the Internationalisation of the Sociology of Contemporary Work and Employment
The China e-Special Issue brings together 11 articles on the sociology of contemporary work and employment in China which have been published in WES in the past two decades, highlighting the increasing frequency of submissions, and also reflecting the diversity, complexity and plurality of work and employment in the region. The foci of debates include the changing fault lines of work and employment; the changing relationships between state, emplo…
Gender and Migration
This open access reader covers both traditional and recent and emerging topics on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities in Europe and
Onward migration and intra‐European mobilities
This paper aims to give a theoretical introduction on onward migration and provide a review of empirical research on this topic in the EU. While there is a growing body of work on the topic, this still remains an under‐researched phenomenon. Existing studies have looked at different, often overlapping, dimensions of onward migration and how it may be an effect of mobility capital or influenced by variables as diverse as economic crises, gender, c…
Gender, migration and policymaking in light of the 60 th anniversary of international migration
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study
Onward migration
In August 2016, Maslax Moxamed, a 19-year-old man from Somalia, arrived in Italy. He spent two months in Rome, first in via Cupa in the San Lorenzo district, where he met volunteers at the Baobab experience, an occupied social centre that had been turned into a reception centre for migrants in 2015 at the height of the “refugee crisis” (Dines et al., 2018). After eviction in September 2016, he followed volunteers to the various makeshift receptio…
Subversive citizens
In 2012, new and restrictive spousal reunification laws were implemented in the UK. EU free movement rules, however, have enabled British citizens to circumvent those restrictions by residing for a period in another Member State, and then returning with their family member to the UK. The article examines the resulting tension between national and EU law. It explores use of the Surinder Singh route (named after the court case which established the…
Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community
In this contribution to the formation of an epistemic community and its knowledge production developed in the Paper Between fragmentation and institutionalisation: the rise of migration studies as a research field , I seek to go beyond the bibliometric analysis, and in particular explore the nature of its internationalisation, the connections authors have across the globe and the unequal valuation of differently located research. These aspects un…
Migrants at Work
Migration – and the experiences of migrants – continue to occupy an important and controversial place in the scholarly and political debates on contemporary labour markets and societies. As new scenarios emerge at local, national and global levels, new insights and perspectives become necessary. The articles in this themed issue reflect the interest Work, Employment and Society has had in the topic of labour migrations and migrants at work for we…
Gendered dynamics of transnational social protection
Social protection refers to resources and strategies to deal with social risks, such as poverty or obligations and needs of care, which might impede the realization of life chances and well-being. Previous research has shown that migrants are particularly affected by challenges when accessing or providing social protection, because of unfamiliar welfare regulations in the immigration country and their family and friends being located in various l…
Gendered mobilities and vulnerabilities
Recent refugee flows across the Mediterranean have been heterogeneous despite often being represented as predominantly male. However, there exist relatively little disaggregated data for adults and children which would enable us to achieve a better understanding of gendered mobilities in refugee journeys and settlement. Furthermore, such mobilities are affected by notions of vulnerability applied to those in need of protection, which prioritise t…
From Mobile Workers to Fellow Citizens and Back Again? The Future Status of EU Citizens in the UK
Growing concerns and hostility towards continuing large-scale flows of immigrants following the two rounds of EU enlargement and high levels of net migration played a major part in the Brexit referendum result for the UK to leave the EU. So too had welfare chauvinism, or the belief that welfare benefits should be restricted to citizens, come to the fore in negative attitudes to EU immigration, reflecting a rejection of EU migrants as fellow citiz…
Towards an inclusive and gendered right to the city
Family Migration as a Class Matter
Traditionally, family migration was conceptualized as a separate form of migration from labour migration. Increasingly socio‐economic criteria (labour market participation, language competence, financial resources, independence from welfare), have been applied to family migration policies in Europe, and are harder to fulfil by those with a weaker labour market position. Hence class now plays an increasingly significant role in stratifying the rig…
Into the 1990s
Women&s;s political participation has been viewed by as a function of women&s;s stake in the political system, either resulting from their activity outside the home or the politicization of the issues in which they were traditionally interested. The interest in international politics is a timely one. Feminist political geography, as can be seen from its meagre output so far, has much catching up to do. Women&s;s oppression was one of the question…
Citizenship for some but not for others
Citizenship has once again become a major item on political agendas at a time of increasing integration and closure around 'the European', especially in response to immigration and its consequences for national identity. This article first outlines the different models and traditions of citizenship and their re-evaluations in contemporary Europe. In the second part critiques directed towards the capacity of formal models of citizenship are examin…
Reproduction
In the 1970s, Anglo‐American feminist scholars and activists, influenced by Marxism, highlighted the role of reproduction in maintaining female subordination and oppression and sought to challenge the binary division between production and reproduction and the devaluation of women's domestic labor. In the face of diverse critiques, the debate over and use of the concept diminished. Since about 2000 there has been a revival of interest in the conc…
Health Challenges in Refugee Reception
The arrival of more than one million migrants, many of them refugees, has proved a major test for the European Union. Although international relief and monitoring agencies have been critical of makeshift camps in Calais and Eidomeni where infectious disease and overcrowding present major health risks, few have examined the nature of the official reception system and its impact on health delivery. Drawing upon research findings from an Economic an…
Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction
Eleonore Kofman and Parvati Raghuram argue for the benefits of social reproduction as a lens through which to understand gendered transformations in global migration. They highlight the range of sites
Gendered migrations, social reproduction and the household in Europe
Gendered Perspectives on Integration Discourses and Measures
This article focuses on gendered discourses in integration policy and the problems immigrants pose in the reproduction of inequalities in a number of European countries. There has been little consideration of how gender categories operate in relation to broader political discourses around the construction of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and the constitution of national social and political communities and identities. Yet gender issues have become significant …
Towards a Gendered Evaluation of (Highly) Skilled Immigration Policies in Europe
Immigration policies reflect to varying degrees the calibration and stratification of desirable knowledge. The criteria adopted have varied across countries and immigration systems. However, despite the evidence that skilled women migrate more than men, little attention has been paid to the extent to which immigration policies impact differently on women and men and result in gender inequalities, and how the valuation of skills is gendered in its…
Gendered Labour Migrations in Europe and Emblematic Migratory Figures
This paper explores the dichotomies and gendered invisibilities underpinning the concept of the knowledge economy and society through a closer examination of two emblematic and contrasting figures working in Information and Communication Technology and domestic/care work as bearers of different configurations of knowledge and skills in the contemporary circuits of globalisation. Such knowledge can be broken down into different types—such as embra…
Secure borders and safe haven and the gendered politics of belonging
This article focuses on contemporary gendered politics of migration and belonging in Britain. The article starts with an examination of migration and the construction of boundaries in Europe and, more specifically, the gendered implications of recent immigration policies (labour, family, asylum) and the gendered nature of the notion of "secure borders" as well as that of "safe haven" in the UK White Paper. In particular, we address and problemati…
Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction
Care has come to dominate much feminist research on globalized migrations and the transfer of labor from the South to the North, while the older concept of reproduction had been pushed into the background but is now becoming the subject of debates on the commodification of care in the household and changes in welfare state policies. This article argues that we could achieve a better understanding of the different modalities and trajectories of ca…
Citizenship, Migration and the Reassertion of National Identity
Faced with increasing and diverse migratory pressures in the post Cold War period, European states have created an increasingly complex system of civic stratifications with differential access to civil, economic and social rights depending on mode of entry, residence and employment. Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, expansion and contraction of rights have occurred within a managerialist approach which, though recognising the need…
Gender and skilled migrants
Gender and Global Labour Migrations
Female labour migration has increased in the past two decades, and has become more complex and interconnected, attracting considerable attention from researchers and policy makers. Earlier debates on the relationship between production and reproduction have resurfaced in a period of changing configurations of welfare states; contemporary theorisations of global labour migration are now paying attention to the role of women in the reproductive sec…
Citizenship for some but not for others
Family Migration as a Class Matter
Traditionally, family migration was conceptualized as a separate form of migration from labour migration. Increasingly socio‐economic criteria (labour market participation, language competence, financial resources, independence from welfare), have been applied to family migration policies in Europe, and are harder to fulfil by those with a weaker labour market position. Hence class now plays an increasingly significant role in stratifying the rig…
Gendered Global Migrations
The globalization of migration has entailed a greater diversity and stratification of migration. Integrative approaches, such as transnationalism, structurationism and alternative circuits of globalization, have helped to place migration in broader socio- cultural fields but have not adequately addressed the complex gendered stratification generated in countries of origin and destination. Much literature focuses on the socio-economically disadvan…
Contemporary European migrations, civic stratification and citizenship
Insiders and outsiders
This paper draws upon our experiences as non‐Muslim researchers working on two local studies with Muslim communities in North London. The paper aims firstly, to consider issues of access and trust in the context of the current political climate, secondly, to critically explore the relationship between academics and community organisations, and thirdly, to discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in employing peer researchers. Our discuss…
Towards a Gendered Evaluation of (Highly) Skilled Immigration Policies in Europe
Immigration policies reflect to varying degrees the calibration and stratification of desirable knowledge. The criteria adopted have varied across countries and immigration systems. However, despite the evidence that skilled women migrate more than men, little attention has been paid to the extent to which immigration policies impact differently on women and men and result in gender inequalities, and how the valuation of skills is gendered in its…
Out of Asia
Women, Migration, and Care
Journal Article Women, Migration, and Care: Explorations of Diversity and Dynamism in the Global South Get access Eleonore Kofman, Eleonore Kofman E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parvati Raghuram Parvati Raghuram Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 19, Issue 3, Fall 201…
Onward migration and intra‐European mobilities
This paper aims to give a theoretical introduction on onward migration and provide a review of empirical research on this topic in the EU. While there is a growing body of work on the topic, this still remains an under‐researched phenomenon. Existing studies have looked at different, often overlapping, dimensions of onward migration and how it may be an effect of mobility capital or influenced by variables as diverse as economic crises, gender, c…
Gendered Perspectives on Integration Discourses and Measures
This article focuses on gendered discourses in integration policy and the problems immigrants pose in the reproduction of inequalities in a number of European countries. There has been little consideration of how gender categories operate in relation to broader political discourses around the construction of ‘us’ and ‘them’ and the constitution of national social and political communities and identities. Yet gender issues have become significant …
Female 'Birds of Passage' a Decade Later
Gendered migrations, social reproduction and the household in Europe
The State, Skilled Labour Markets, and Immigration
Most recent research on skilled migration focuses on those working in the financial sectors and there has been very little work in Europe on the migration of people in welfare sectors. In this paper we seek to explore some of the complexities of shifting labour markets and immigration regulations and their influence on the geography of migration of doctors to England. We argue that state regulations, both of immigration and those governing the me…
Human Geography. Society, Space and Social Science
Preface - List of Figures - List of Contributors - Introduction: Human Geography, Social Change and Social Science D.Gregory, R.Martin & G.Smith - PART ONE: THE CORE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - Economic Theory and Human Geography R.Martin - Political Theory and Human Geography G.Smith - Social Theory and Human Geography D.Gregory - PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - The Environmental Challenge T. Bayliss-Smith & S.Owens - The Transformation of …
From Mobile Workers to Fellow Citizens and Back Again? The Future Status of EU Citizens in the UK
Growing concerns and hostility towards continuing large-scale flows of immigrants following the two rounds of EU enlargement and high levels of net migration played a major part in the Brexit referendum result for the UK to leave the EU. So too had welfare chauvinism, or the belief that welfare benefits should be restricted to citizens, come to the fore in negative attitudes to EU immigration, reflecting a rejection of EU migrants as fellow citiz…
Gendered mobilities and vulnerabilities
Recent refugee flows across the Mediterranean have been heterogeneous despite often being represented as predominantly male. However, there exist relatively little disaggregated data for adults and children which would enable us to achieve a better understanding of gendered mobilities in refugee journeys and settlement. Furthermore, such mobilities are affected by notions of vulnerability applied to those in need of protection, which prioritise t…
Female ‘Birds of Passage’ a Decade Later
Despite the increasing body of theoretical and case study literature about the feminization of international migration, general formulations of international migration have failed to include insights derived from this research. First, this article critically assesses the dominant accounts of the sequence of labor migration and family reunification and argues that it is time to reclaim the heterogencity of women's past migratory experiences in our…
Género y migración cualificada en Europa
This article examines the significance of skilled labour migration and the sectors in which skilled female migrants are employed. It considers some of the major reasons for the lack of attention given to gendered aspects of skilled migration. Nonetheless there have been some interesting theoretical and empirical advances in our understanding of skilled female migrants, which go beyond a general appreciation of the hardships they confront in the c…
Towards fortress Europe
Politics, Geography and Social Stratification
Religious Adherence and Population Mobility in 19th Century New South Wales
Functional regionalism and alternative regional development programmes in Corsica
Kofman E. (1981) Functional regionalism and alternative regional development programmes in Corsica, Reg. Studies 15, 173–181. The principle of functional regionalism in France has been challenged, particularly by regionalist/autonomist movements. By examining the evolution of nationally-defined regional development policies and alternative proposals and strategies emanating in Corsica, a culturally-distinctive peripheral region, the extent to whi…
Differential modernisation, social conflicts and ethno-regionalism in Corsica
Politics, Geography and Social Stratification
Politics, Geography and Social Stratification
Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography
Nation, State and Territory
Nationalism, Self-Determination and Political Geography
Into the 1990s
France
Political geography textbooks for Myopic lecturers
Place and Politics: the geographical mediation of state and society J. Agnew, 1987 London, Allen & Unwin The United States in the World‐economy — a regional geography J. Agnew, 1987 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press State Apparatus C. Clark & M. Dear, 1984 London, Allen & Unwin Localities P. Cooke (Ed.), 1989 London, Unwin Hyman Politics in Transition A. Cochrane & J. Anderson (Eds), 1989 London, Sage Place, Policy and Politics: do localities…
Citizens, the State and European Integration
Citizens, the State and European Integration : Some Reflections on the British Situation. Un article de la revue Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Partenariat et territoire) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Towards fortress Europe
Cities
Documentation and resources on cities
Feminism and Geography
Unfinished agendas
Citizenship for some but not for others
Human Geography. Society, Space and Social Science
Preface - List of Figures - List of Contributors - Introduction: Human Geography, Social Change and Social Science D.Gregory, R.Martin & G.Smith - PART ONE: THE CORE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - Economic Theory and Human Geography R.Martin - Political Theory and Human Geography G.Smith - Social Theory and Human Geography D.Gregory - PART TWO: PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY - The Environmental Challenge T. Bayliss-Smith & S.Owens - The Transformation of …
Gender Differences and Family Reunion in the European Union
The feminization of immigration flows into Europe, both through family reunion and the independent migration of women, has been one of the most significant social changes of the past two decades. This development has, however, remained largely unexplored. This paper examines the consequences of changes in access to family reunion, and its gendered implications for women entering as family migrants and as applicants to sponsor family members. It c…
Migrant Women and Exclusion in Europe
Who Will Mind the Baby? Geographies of Child Care and Working Mothers
One of the most significant social and economic changes of recent years has been the explosion in the number of mothers in the work place and in paid employment generally. Child care policy, provision and funding has in no way kept up with this change. Who Will Mind the Baby? explores how working mothers negotiate their responsibilities in the face of these difficulties. The book contrasts the limited child care policies of the United States and …
Female ‘Birds of Passage’ a Decade Later
Despite the increasing body of theoretical and case study literature about the feminization of international migration, general formulations of international migration have failed to include insights derived from this research. First, this article critically assesses the dominant accounts of the sequence of labor migration and family reunification and argues that it is time to reclaim the heterogencity of women's past migratory experiences in our…
Female 'Birds of Passage' a Decade Later
The invisibility of skilled female migrants and gender relations in studies of skilled migration in Europe
This paper examines the reasons for the invisibility of skilled female migrants in studies of skilled migration in Europe. The choice of research agendas has played a major part in rendering women invisible. The emphasis has generally been on transnational corporations, which, especially in their higher ranks, remain resolutely male-dominated. The presence of migrants in welfare sectors (i.e. education, health and social services), which are stro…
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