Sisters on the move

Ethiopia’s gendered labour migration milieu

Bibliographic Data

ID18985010
AuthorsMeron Zeleke Eresso (Addis Ababa University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume53
Issue1
Pages27-46
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3968 • E-ISSN: 1923-3051
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00083968.2018.1519451
OpenAlexW2898513354
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

This paper presents intricacies of gender and migration drawing on the growing phenomenon of Ethiopian female siblings’ outmigration. Siblings’ migration displays how the migration process is highly impacted by dominant gendered socio-cultural norms as much as it is affected by the demand structures in destination countries. Gendered socialization patterns, gendered norms and gendered roles highly affect the migration trends in defining who migrates, why and how, in the context of patriarchal society. Overarching gender norms influence women’s access to education, employment and their autonomous decisions of migration. Furthermore, the paper presents how a migration project and sponsorship of ones’ own younger sister by a female migrant is used as a “resistance” mechanism to flee different forms of gender-based violence young girls and women face at their places of origin. Co-migration of sisters and female siblings’ sponsorship reinforces the gendered labour migration, enhancing intergenerational female labour migration pattern

Affect (linguistics) · Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · Migrant workers · Phenomenon · Sister · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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