Sondra Cuban
Biographic Data
| ID | 76242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sondra Cuban |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sondra |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuban |
| SIGNATURE | CUBAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Gendered Cultural Care Perspective on Women's Self‐Employment in Mongolia
The authors develop a framework for women's self‐employment in Mongolia at the intersections of gender, culture, and care that go beyond current theories of female entrepreneurship that use deficit based and western centric approaches. Through a secondary analysis of these theories and data on gender and employment the authors show that women's unpaid care explains a large part of their entry into self‐employment in Mongolia, particularly in the …
Mongolian women’s communication chains for future movement
This study is about the ways Mongolian migrant women in South Korea used ICTs to maintain transnational family communication and plan future movement during a period of immobility imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author conceptualizes the extensive virtual interactions connecting migrant and non-migrant family members through, Transnational ICT-based Communication Chains (TICCs). Findings of the study showed that the family video groups that…
"Filipino Migrant and Returnee Nurses Resisting and Adapting to the Pressures of Becoming "Ideal Migrants
This paper scrutinizes the desirability and feasibility of return migration for Filipino male and female nurses, while considering "turning points", factors such as natural disasters, here supertyphoon "Yolanda" or "Haiyan", and/or family crises and changes in the family structure, which affect the migration trajectory. The Philippines has a long history of outward migration, more recently of female workers employed in the healthcare and domestic…
Migrant Care Workers at the Intersection of Rural Belonging in Small English Communities
Shortage of staff in the private care sector brought migrant participants of this study to rural communities in northwest England. The care workers, fourteen highly skilled first-generation migrants, described experiences of feeling unsettled, despite residing in these communities for an average of nine years. Social divisions, such as their race, ethnicity, and gender, intersected in rural England to create an overwhelming, at times, feeling of …
Any Sacrifice Is Worthwhile Doing: Latina Au Pairs Migrating to the United States for Opportunities
A study of 20 highly educated Latin American women who entered the United States on au pair visas showed that they struggled to improve their opportunity structures. The study draws on skilled female migration theory to focus on the participants' ambitions, work experiences, and their trajectories in the United States. The findings focused on the contradictions between the participants' aspirations and the realities of their work lives, legal sta…
Transnational families, ICTs and mobile learning
This article focuses on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council study in England about the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among 15 highly mobile migrant workers within their transnational families. Using an extended case study approach including ethnographic methods and a thematic analysis, patterns appeared about learning within transnational families using ICTs. The findings were that their mobile learni…
Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry
This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry
Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile: The Drive of Migrants in Fieldwork and Fiction
This article focuses on first-generation migrant workers in the service sector of England’s North West and their mobile subjectivities. It combines the research on cars and driving with the mobilities agenda on transnational migrants. In this essay, we draw from both fiction and fieldwork to explore the mobile experiences of migrants who work within the region’s ‘service diaspora’. Two inter-related stories unfold about cars, care and curry. Both…
Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education
The feminisation of migration is absent in policy and programmatic discourses on adult education in the USA and England. This paper uses an intersectional framework and feminist transnational methodology to probe this concept and its implications for women migrants and their education and advancement
It is hard to stay in England’: Itineraries, routes, and dead ends: an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers
This article presents findings from an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) study on the roles of education in the trajectories of health care professionals who migrated to England and became carers. The study looks at the downward mobility and deskilling of these women, and their struggles to reverse their bungled career paths. The author maps the routes of women, who after receiving a nurse education in countries such as China, Malawi, Roman…
Skilled immigrant women carers in rural England and their downward mobility
An ESRC study that focused on the career trajectories of women immigrant care workers in a new area of settlement in England found that they had few opportunities to advance and that structural barriers were pervasive. Three major themes about factors for the women’s downward mobility were discovered: 1) Social and economic discrimination in sending countries, 2) a predominant perception amongst British-born employers and the public that the wome…
Talking Was a Great Experience: Destabilising Gendered Communication in the Workplace
Home/work: The roles of education, literacy, and learning in the networks and mobility of professional women migrant carers in Cumbria
This study focuses on a group of highly skilled female migrants who were carers to the elderly, and the roles of education, literacy, and learning in their social networks and mobility in Cumbria, England. Over a one-year period, interviews were conducted with care training specialists, carers, clients, and employers across England, including Cumbria, in conjunction with literature reviews and observations to develop themes about this phenomenon.…
Us, the body’: Two women’s uses of health texts in Hawai’i
The researcher analysed two women’s uses of popular culture texts on the island of Hawai’i. They read these texts in order to learn about, and manage, their health problems. These vernacular texts were different from the institutional texts that were prescribed to them by their doctors, as well as the commercial ones that were in the literacy programme they attended. Their uses of these self‐help texts reflected the staunchly religious community …
Migrant Care Workers at the Intersection of Rural Belonging in Small English Communities
Shortage of staff in the private care sector brought migrant participants of this study to rural communities in northwest England. The care workers, fourteen highly skilled first-generation migrants, described experiences of feeling unsettled, despite residing in these communities for an average of nine years. Social divisions, such as their race, ethnicity, and gender, intersected in rural England to create an overwhelming, at times, feeling of …
Home/work: The roles of education, literacy, and learning in the networks and mobility of professional women migrant carers in Cumbria
This study focuses on a group of highly skilled female migrants who were carers to the elderly, and the roles of education, literacy, and learning in their social networks and mobility in Cumbria, England. Over a one-year period, interviews were conducted with care training specialists, carers, clients, and employers across England, including Cumbria, in conjunction with literature reviews and observations to develop themes about this phenomenon.…
Talking Was a Great Experience: Destabilising Gendered Communication in the Workplace
Any Sacrifice Is Worthwhile Doing: Latina Au Pairs Migrating to the United States for Opportunities
A study of 20 highly educated Latin American women who entered the United States on au pair visas showed that they struggled to improve their opportunity structures. The study draws on skilled female migration theory to focus on the participants' ambitions, work experiences, and their trajectories in the United States. The findings focused on the contradictions between the participants' aspirations and the realities of their work lives, legal sta…
Transnational families, ICTs and mobile learning
This article focuses on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council study in England about the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among 15 highly mobile migrant workers within their transnational families. Using an extended case study approach including ethnographic methods and a thematic analysis, patterns appeared about learning within transnational families using ICTs. The findings were that their mobile learni…
Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education
The feminisation of migration is absent in policy and programmatic discourses on adult education in the USA and England. This paper uses an intersectional framework and feminist transnational methodology to probe this concept and its implications for women migrants and their education and advancement
It is hard to stay in England’: Itineraries, routes, and dead ends: an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers
This article presents findings from an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) study on the roles of education in the trajectories of health care professionals who migrated to England and became carers. The study looks at the downward mobility and deskilling of these women, and their struggles to reverse their bungled career paths. The author maps the routes of women, who after receiving a nurse education in countries such as China, Malawi, Roman…
Home/work: The roles of education, literacy, and learning in the networks and mobility of professional women migrant carers in Cumbria
This study focuses on a group of highly skilled female migrants who were carers to the elderly, and the roles of education, literacy, and learning in their social networks and mobility in Cumbria, England. Over a one-year period, interviews were conducted with care training specialists, carers, clients, and employers across England, including Cumbria, in conjunction with literature reviews and observations to develop themes about this phenomenon.…
Us, the body’: Two women’s uses of health texts in Hawai’i
The researcher analysed two women’s uses of popular culture texts on the island of Hawai’i. They read these texts in order to learn about, and manage, their health problems. These vernacular texts were different from the institutional texts that were prescribed to them by their doctors, as well as the commercial ones that were in the literacy programme they attended. Their uses of these self‐help texts reflected the staunchly religious community …
Skilled immigrant women carers in rural England and their downward mobility
An ESRC study that focused on the career trajectories of women immigrant care workers in a new area of settlement in England found that they had few opportunities to advance and that structural barriers were pervasive. Three major themes about factors for the women’s downward mobility were discovered: 1) Social and economic discrimination in sending countries, 2) a predominant perception amongst British-born employers and the public that the wome…
Talking Was a Great Experience: Destabilising Gendered Communication in the Workplace
Examining the feminisation of migration concept for adult education
The feminisation of migration is absent in policy and programmatic discourses on adult education in the USA and England. This paper uses an intersectional framework and feminist transnational methodology to probe this concept and its implications for women migrants and their education and advancement
It is hard to stay in England’: Itineraries, routes, and dead ends: an (im)mobility study of nurses who became carers
This article presents findings from an Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) study on the roles of education in the trajectories of health care professionals who migrated to England and became carers. The study looks at the downward mobility and deskilling of these women, and their struggles to reverse their bungled career paths. The author maps the routes of women, who after receiving a nurse education in countries such as China, Malawi, Roman…
Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile: The Drive of Migrants in Fieldwork and Fiction
This article focuses on first-generation migrant workers in the service sector of England’s North West and their mobile subjectivities. It combines the research on cars and driving with the mobilities agenda on transnational migrants. In this essay, we draw from both fiction and fieldwork to explore the mobile experiences of migrants who work within the region’s ‘service diaspora’. Two inter-related stories unfold about cars, care and curry. Both…
Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry
This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry
Transnational families, ICTs and mobile learning
This article focuses on findings from an Economic and Social Research Council study in England about the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs) among 15 highly mobile migrant workers within their transnational families. Using an extended case study approach including ethnographic methods and a thematic analysis, patterns appeared about learning within transnational families using ICTs. The findings were that their mobile learni…
Any Sacrifice Is Worthwhile Doing: Latina Au Pairs Migrating to the United States for Opportunities
A study of 20 highly educated Latin American women who entered the United States on au pair visas showed that they struggled to improve their opportunity structures. The study draws on skilled female migration theory to focus on the participants' ambitions, work experiences, and their trajectories in the United States. The findings focused on the contradictions between the participants' aspirations and the realities of their work lives, legal sta…
Migrant Care Workers at the Intersection of Rural Belonging in Small English Communities
Shortage of staff in the private care sector brought migrant participants of this study to rural communities in northwest England. The care workers, fourteen highly skilled first-generation migrants, described experiences of feeling unsettled, despite residing in these communities for an average of nine years. Social divisions, such as their race, ethnicity, and gender, intersected in rural England to create an overwhelming, at times, feeling of …
"Filipino Migrant and Returnee Nurses Resisting and Adapting to the Pressures of Becoming "Ideal Migrants
This paper scrutinizes the desirability and feasibility of return migration for Filipino male and female nurses, while considering "turning points", factors such as natural disasters, here supertyphoon "Yolanda" or "Haiyan", and/or family crises and changes in the family structure, which affect the migration trajectory. The Philippines has a long history of outward migration, more recently of female workers employed in the healthcare and domestic…
A Gendered Cultural Care Perspective on Women's Self‐Employment in Mongolia
The authors develop a framework for women's self‐employment in Mongolia at the intersections of gender, culture, and care that go beyond current theories of female entrepreneurship that use deficit based and western centric approaches. Through a secondary analysis of these theories and data on gender and employment the authors show that women's unpaid care explains a large part of their entry into self‐employment in Mongolia, particularly in the …
Mongolian women’s communication chains for future movement
This study is about the ways Mongolian migrant women in South Korea used ICTs to maintain transnational family communication and plan future movement during a period of immobility imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The author conceptualizes the extensive virtual interactions connecting migrant and non-migrant family members through, Transnational ICT-based Communication Chains (TICCs). Findings of the study showed that the family video groups that…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Law (5 works)