Helma Lutz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helma Lutz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helma |
| FAMILY NAME | Lutz |
| SIGNATURE | LUTZ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University, Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 469 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Feminisms of the Global South: Critical thinking and collective struggles: An introduction
Handbuch Biographieforschung
Einleitung: Ein Handbuch der Biographieforschung
Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects
From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest towards the topic of gender and migration has grown. Gender and Migration seeks to introduce the most relevant sociological theories of gender relations and migration that consider ongoing transnationalization processes, at the beginning of the third millennium. These include intersectionality, queer studies, social inequality theory and the theory of transnational migration and citizenship; al…
Handbuch Biographieforschung
Handbuch Biographieforschung
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime, Nicholas Van HearRefugia: A Place Where Refugees Survive, But Do Not Thrive, Veronique Barbelet and Christina BennettBeware of Social Engineering: A Response to "Refugia" by Nicholas Van Hear, Helma LutzRefugia: Pragmatic Utopianism, Nicholas Van Hear
Masculinity, Care and Stay-Behind Fathers: A Postsocialist Perspective
Over the last two decades many studies have focused on female migrants' transnational care practices, while those of stay-behind fathers have hardly been investigated. This chapter deals with masculinity, childcare and fatherhood of stay-behind male partners of female migrants from former socialist countries in Europe. A discussion of the particularities of gender regimes in socialist and postsocialist Europe will be followed by a presentation of…
Introduction: Towards a global sociology of care and care work
Although care and care work have always formed a theme of fundamental social significance, neither has had much social recognition nor sociological attention commensurate with this importance. In this Current Sociology monograph we want to move the discussion forward towards a global sociology of care and care work. The contributions focus on both theoretical and empirical studies about care relations and their global interrelations. To shed ligh…
Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality
One of the features of the global commodification of care is the outsourcing of care work to migrants. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical responses to the incorporation of migrant care workers in transnational care arrangements. After a description of the scope of migrant care labour and the global care economy, the article summarizes the challenges posed by this empirical phenomenon and asks to what extent care migrations on a…
Care as a fictitious commodity: Reflections on the intersections of migration, gender and care regimes
Journal Article Care as a fictitious commodity: Reflections on the intersections of migration, gender and care regimes Get access Helma Lutz Helma Lutz *Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Sociology, Theodor W. Adorno Platz 6, Frankfurt, DE-60629, Germany. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Migration Studies, Volume 5, Issue 3, November 2017, Pages 356–368, https://doi.o…
Care as a fictitious commodity: Reflections on the intersections of migration, gender and care regimes
An interview with Joan W Scott
Gender, Migration, Transnationalisierung: Eine intersektionelle Einführung
Diese sozialwissenschaftliche Einführung nähert sich den Themen Geschlecht und Migration aus einer intersektionellen Perspektive, die die Verknüpfung von Geschlechterverhältnissen und Migrationsprozessen in den Vordergrund stellt. In systematischer und didaktisch aufbereiteter Form stellen Helma Lutz und Anna Amelina aktuelle gendersoziologische, intersektionelle und transnationale Theorien vor und verdeutlichen sie am Beispiel der Forschungsfeld…
Framing Intersectionality
Framing Intersectionality: Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies
Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme
This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within w…
Biographieforschung Im Diskurs
Myra's Predicament: Motherhood Dilemmas for Migrant Care Workers
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2015
Intersectionality as Method
Unterschiedlich Verschieden: Differenz in der Erziehungswissenschaft
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries: Vol. II
Fokus Intersektionalität – eine Einleitung
Fokus Intersektionalität: Bewegungen und Verortungen Eines Vielschichtigen Konzeptes
Fokus Intersektionalität: Bewegungen und Verortungen Eines Vielschichtigen Konzeptes
Framing Intersectionality
Gender in the Migratory Process
This paper argues for treating gender as a key category in the understanding of migratory processes. Starting with an illustration of the absence of women in mainstream migration research, it presents the debate on this phenomenon and its development from a focus on women to one on gender. Through discussion of the debate on current migration phenomena it is demonstrated how gender can be used in a conceptual framework which includes various leve…
Care Work Migration in Germany: Semi-Compliance and Complicity
In this article, we deal with contradictions and paradoxes of the German policies on migration and domestic care work. Although the demand for care workers in private homes is increasing, the German government has turned a blind eye to the topic of migrant care workers. As a result of the mismatch between demand and restrictive policies, a large sector of undeclared care work has come into being. This veritable ‘twilight zone’ can be coined an ‘o…
The Limits of European-Ness: Immigrant Women in Fortress Europe
This article is intended to contribute to the ongoing debate on the ideological, social and political formation of a New Europe. By focusing on the position of immigrant women it examines the gendered nature of the changing configurations of cultural and social European landscapes. Two features of immigrant women's positioning are the key issues of this analysis: regulations through national and European law and ideological representation. It is …
Intersectionality as Method
Introduction: Domestic and Care Work at the Intersection of Welfare, Gender and Migration Regimes: Some European Experiences
Research over the last decade and more, has documented a resurgence of paid domestic and care labour (that is, work performed for pay in private households, such as household cleaning and maintenance and care for elders/disabled/children) across the Global North. 1 Much of the research has revealed the increasing reliance on migrant , as opposed to home-state, domestic workers, and it has been suggested (Lutz, 2007: 4) that domestic and care work…
At Your Service Madam! The Globalization of Domestic Service
Care migration: The connectivity between care chains, care circulation and transnational social inequality
One of the features of the global commodification of care is the outsourcing of care work to migrants. The aim of this article is to investigate theoretical responses to the incorporation of migrant care workers in transnational care arrangements. After a description of the scope of migrant care labour and the global care economy, the article summarizes the challenges posed by this empirical phenomenon and asks to what extent care migrations on a…
Domestic Work
Unterschiedlich verschieden. Differenz in der Erziehungswissenschaft
Dieser Band richtet sich an Lehrende und Studierende Erziehungswissenschaft, die sich fur die Erorterung des Schlagwortes interessieren. Er vermittelt eine Ubersicht uber dessen theoretischen und disziplinspezifischen Einsatz und erortert die Grenzen seiner Tragweite sowie die Risiken seiner Anwendung. Das Buch versteht sich als Zusammenfassung und als Intervention in aktuellen Differenzdebatte. (Klappentext) Die Einzelbeitrage: 1) Rita Casale st…
Hard Labour: The ‘Biographical Work’ of a Turkish Migrant Woman in Germany
Immigrant women to Western Europe, especially those originating from Islamic countries, have been turned into icons of cultural difference by the general discourse on immigration. They are not recognized as actors in a changing society, just as society's changes through immigrants tend to be denied. This obscures the work and the accomplishments of women in the course of their immigration. Focusing on a biographical interview with a Turkish woman…
Handbuch Biographieforschung
Care as a fictitious commodity: Reflections on the intersections of migration, gender and care regimes
Journal Article Care as a fictitious commodity: Reflections on the intersections of migration, gender and care regimes Get access Helma Lutz Helma Lutz *Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Sociology, Theodor W. Adorno Platz 6, Frankfurt, DE-60629, Germany. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Migration Studies, Volume 5, Issue 3, November 2017, Pages 356–368, https://doi.o…
Gender and transnationalism
By now, discussions about transnationalism have been on the social sciences’ research agenda for almost two decades. In their path-breaking work Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and De-territorialized Nation States Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller and Cristina Szanton Blanc (1994) have challenged the long-time belief that migration is a linear project of emigration from a particular country to in-migration into a…
Fokus Intersektionalität. Bewegungen und Verortungen eines vielschichtigen Konzeptes
Introduction: Towards a global sociology of care and care work
Although care and care work have always formed a theme of fundamental social significance, neither has had much social recognition nor sociological attention commensurate with this importance. In this Current Sociology monograph we want to move the discussion forward towards a global sociology of care and care work. The contributions focus on both theoretical and empirical studies about care relations and their global interrelations. To shed ligh…
Myra's Predicament: Motherhood Dilemmas for Migrant Care Workers
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2015
In between or bridging cultural gaps? Migrant women from Turkey as mediators
This article focuses on the experiences of a group of migrant women from Turkey, now living in the Netherlands or Germany. These are women involved in working with and for their compatriots in various sectors of social work. The term mediator refers to their professional task of mediating between the migrant community on the one hand and the indigenous society's institutions on the other. Their ethnicity turns out to be crucial for their professi…
The myth of the ‘other: Western representation and images of migrant women of so called ‘Islamic background
Lost in translation? The role of language in migrants’ biographies: What can micro-sociologists learn from Eva Hoffman
In her famous memoir Lost in Translation (1989), the journalist and psychoanalyst Eva Hoffman describes her childhood metamorphosis from a Polish into a North American girl by reconstructing her experience with learning a new language. She equates this with loss and acquisition of identities. This article focuses on Hoffman’s interest in language as an identity issue since this is a highly relevant theme for migration researchers, particularly fo…
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime, Nicholas Van HearRefugia: A Place Where Refugees Survive, But Do Not Thrive, Veronique Barbelet and Christina BennettBeware of Social Engineering: A Response to "Refugia" by Nicholas Van Hear, Helma LutzRefugia: Pragmatic Utopianism, Nicholas Van Hear
Life in Theory: Three Feminist Thinkers on Transition(s)
Feminisms of the Global South: Critical thinking and collective struggles: An introduction
Masculinity, Care and Stay-Behind Fathers: A Postsocialist Perspective
Over the last two decades many studies have focused on female migrants' transnational care practices, while those of stay-behind fathers have hardly been investigated. This chapter deals with masculinity, childcare and fatherhood of stay-behind male partners of female migrants from former socialist countries in Europe. A discussion of the particularities of gender regimes in socialist and postsocialist Europe will be followed by a presentation of…
Feminist theory in practice: An interview with Bell Hooks
The myth of the ‘other: Western representation and images of migrant women of so called ‘Islamic background
Feminist theory in practice: An interview with Bell Hooks
In between or bridging cultural gaps? Migrant women from Turkey as mediators
This article focuses on the experiences of a group of migrant women from Turkey, now living in the Netherlands or Germany. These are women involved in working with and for their compatriots in various sectors of social work. The term mediator refers to their professional task of mediating between the migrant community on the one hand and the indigenous society's institutions on the other. Their ethnicity turns out to be crucial for their professi…
The Limits of European-Ness: Immigrant Women in Fortress Europe
This article is intended to contribute to the ongoing debate on the ideological, social and political formation of a New Europe. By focusing on the position of immigrant women it examines the gendered nature of the changing configurations of cultural and social European landscapes. Two features of immigrant women's positioning are the key issues of this analysis: regulations through national and European law and ideological representation. It is …
The New Migration in Europe: Social Constructions and Social Realities
Von Grenzen, Pässen und Rechten: Europäische Szenarien
Biographisches Kapital als Ressource der Bewältigung von Migrationsprozessen
Ist es möglich, Migrantinnen und Migranten als Subjekte einer widersprüchlichen Lebenswelt wahrzunehmen, ohne sie erstens zu reduzieren auf System-Marionetten, die die für sie vorgesehene gesellschaftliche Rolle reproduzieren (müssen)? Ohne sie zweitens zu charakterisieren, zu determinieren und damit einzuschließen in einem bestimmten (kulturellen) Habitus, aus dessen Handlungsgrammatik sie sich nicht befreien können und der ihre Handlungsabläufe…
Women in Transit: Between Tradition and Transformation
Life in Theory: Three Feminist Thinkers on Transition(s)
Hard Labour: The ‘Biographical Work’ of a Turkish Migrant Woman in Germany
Immigrant women to Western Europe, especially those originating from Islamic countries, have been turned into icons of cultural difference by the general discourse on immigration. They are not recognized as actors in a changing society, just as society's changes through immigrants tend to be denied. This obscures the work and the accomplishments of women in the course of their immigration. Focusing on a biographical interview with a Turkish woman…
Between Chairs – That's My Place: The Art of Angela TÛth-Dorn
Differenzen über Differenz — Einführung in die Debatten
Angenommen, Sie interessieren sich für das Thema Differenz — es ist schließlich in aller Munde. Sie suchen relevante Literatur, geben den Begriff als Suchkategorie in die Lieferverzeichnisse des Buchhandels ein und reduzieren die Suchumgebung auf den deutschsprachigen Raum, dann rollen Ihnen heute (2000) etwa 275 Titel entgegen. Sie stellen fest, dass sich der Begriff Differenz als Schlagwort in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Debatte etabliert hat …
Differenz als Rechenaufgabe: Über die Relevanz der Kategorien Race, Class und Gender
Die Amerikanerin Donna Haraway stellt in ihrem Buch „Symians, Cyborgs and Women“ Folgendes fest: „It has seemed very rare for feminist theory to hold race, sex/gender, and class analytically together — all the best intentions, hues of authors, and remarks in prefaces notwithstanding. In addition, there is as much reason for feminists to argue for a race/gender system as for a sex/gender system, and the two are not the same kind of analytical move…
Unterschiedlich verschieden. Differenz in der Erziehungswissenschaft
Dieser Band richtet sich an Lehrende und Studierende Erziehungswissenschaft, die sich fur die Erorterung des Schlagwortes interessieren. Er vermittelt eine Ubersicht uber dessen theoretischen und disziplinspezifischen Einsatz und erortert die Grenzen seiner Tragweite sowie die Risiken seiner Anwendung. Das Buch versteht sich als Zusammenfassung und als Intervention in aktuellen Differenzdebatte. (Klappentext) Die Einzelbeitrage: 1) Rita Casale st…
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries
Gender and Migration, Vol.2, Identities and Networks
In fremden Diensten. Die neue Dienstmädchenfrage als Herausforderung für die Migrations- und Genderforschung
Auf den ersten Blick erinnert diese Geschichte an längst vergangene Zeiten — es könnte sich um die Lebensgeschichte eines Dienstmädchens aus der ländlichen Umgebung Frankfurts handeln, einer jungen Frau aus einer kinderreichen, armen Familie, die gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts in die große Stadt zog, um dort ihr Brot zu verdienen und noch einen Teil ihres Einkommens nach Hause zu schicken. Zu jener Zeit waren 1/5 aller Frauen im Deutschen Kaiser…
At Your Service Madam! The Globalization of Domestic Service
Crossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries
11 tions involving women and men and their relations to one another. Gender is an important organising principle of social relations as it structures every aspect of human interaction on a personal or
Migrations- und Geschlechterforschung: Zur Genese einer komplizierten Beziehung
Das Thema dieses Beitrags bezieht sich auf die Koppelung von zwei wissenschaftlichen Arbeitsbereichen: der Migrations- und Minderheitenforschung und der Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, die zwar über einen Gegenstandsbereich miteinander verbunden sind, sich jedoch isoliert voneinander etabliert haben. In der englischsprachigen Forschung, aus der wichtige theoretische und empirische Anstöße kommen, hat sich 'Gender und Migration 'zu einem eigens…
Geschlechterforschung und Biographieforschung: Intersektionalität als biographische Ressource am Beispiel einer außergewöhnlichen Frau
Die Frauen- oder Geschlechterforschung hat sich in der Bundesrepublik, ähnlich wie in anderen Ländern, in den vergangenen zwanzig Jahren in rasantem Tempo entwickelt. Die ursprünglich gängige Unterdrückungs- oder Patriarchatsthese stand schnell zur Debatte, da an ihr zurecht kritisiert wurde, dass sie (1.) ontolo-gisiert, also bestimmte Eigenschaften als männlich und weiblich festschreibt und dass sie (2.) dichotomisiert, also eine Zweigeteilthei…
Einleitung
Ansätze der Biographieforschung werden in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen genutzt: in der Soziologie und Psychologie, in der Geschichtswissenschaft, besonders der Oral History, in Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, in der Religionswissenschaft, in der Schul- und Bildungsforschung, in der Sozialarbeitswis-senschaft, der Geschlechter- und Migrationsforschung und in etlichen anderen wissenschaftlichen Feldern. Hintergrund dieses breiten Interesses…
Vom Weltmarkt in den Privathaushalt: Die neuen Dienstmädchen im Zeitalter der Globalisierung
Biographieforschung im Diskurs
Intime Fremde – Migrantinnen als Haushaltsarbeiterinnen in Westeuropa
Vor einigen Jahren las ich den Roman „Tea-Bag“ des schwedischen Autors Henning Mankell, in dem er das Leben einer Gruppe junger illegaler Migrantinnen in Schweden beschreibt; offiziell existieren diese Menschen nicht, den einheimischen SchwedInnen sind sie unbekannt. Der Roman wurde in viele Sprachen ubersetzt und erhielt Preise fur die literarische Thematisierung der Lebenswelt illegaler MigrantInnen. 1 Obgleich das Buch gut geschrieben ist, war…
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (19 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Humanities (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economics (9 works) · Art (8 works)