Deconstructing Migration Paradigms through Studies on Emigration and Immigration of Women in Italy

Bibliographic Data

ID3016079
AuthorsAdelina Miranda (0000-0002-3592-4962, Université de Poitiers, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume34
Issue1
Publication date2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevue européenne des migrations internationales (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0765-0752 • E-ISSN: 1777-5418
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/remi.16885
OpenAlexW3157259077
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Research on Italian emigrant and immigrant women has evolved in the same epistemic space, posing the same questions and providing complementary answers that enable gender-migration studies to move forward on the basis of three observations. The first is that the complexification of migration flows is a developing process, linked to a continual superimposition of gendered migration patterns; the second highlights the fact that power structures involve all women, both migrant and non-migrant; the third emphasises that differences and similarities are not binary opposites (current/past migrants, migrant/non-migrant). The theoretical and methodological reflexivity that has developed around the issues of gender and migration in Italy makes it possible to grasp the gender dimension as being consubstantial to the construction of knowledge on migration. This work reveals the inadequacy of traditional explanatory models and shows that the study of migration must simultaneously take into account mobility and immobility, centrifugal and centripetal forces, economic and cultural structures, administrative and political dimensions

Complexification · Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory · Humanities · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy

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