Gendered Labour Migrations in Europe and Emblematic Migratory Figures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7843653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Kofman (0000-0003-3439-2017, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 579-600 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2013.745234 |
| OpenAlex | W2022713846 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 44 |
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 embrained, encoded, embodied and encultured—which are valued differentially and with consequences for gendered labour markets. These gendered differences are reflected in current immigration policies which privilege migrants in scientific and information technology sectors and discount those engaged in care work, associated with embodied knowledge and skills. The impact of these differences has been reinforced during a period of economic recession when immigration has become increasingly restricted, even amongst the skilled
Dichotomy · Economics · Embodied cognition · Globalization · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Recession · Sociology · Underpinning · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
Gender and mobility
Migrant mothers
Gendering Migration
Migration and Domestic Work
Migration and Domestic Work
Gender and Migration
Mobility, Work and Families Amongst the Highly Skilled
Für Frauen gibt es immer Arbeit!“ – Eine intersektionale Analyse migrantischer Arbeit in Spanien
Gendered Pathways
A Crucial Testing Ground
Between domestic and professional
Motivation and Migration Trajectories of EU Citizens on the Move
Digital Communication Tools for Fostering Career Advancement and Sustaining Interpersonal Relationships
Digital Patriarchy
Migrant mothers and the geographies of belonging
Precarious Workers and Probationary Wives
Addressing women's agency on international mobility
Gendered mobilities and social change—An introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Mobility and Social Change
Perspectivas sobre género, migraciones transnacionales y trabajo
Negotiating unequal mobility opportunities
Beyond Economic and Educated
Towards a Gendered Evaluation of (Highly) Skilled Immigration Policies in Europe
Social Class, Migration Policy and Migrant Strategies
The disruption of the care chain
Labors of Love. Migration and Women’s Work in Contemporary Literature from Romania and Republic of Moldova
The Crisis Is Over? Maybe for the Rich, But Not for Us!’ Latin American Migrants’ Responses to the (Post-) Crisis Discourse in Spain
Beyond Welfare Chauvinism and Deservingness. Rationales of Belonging as a Conceptual Framework for the Politics and Governance of Migrants' Rights
Essential, lonely and exploited
The impact of acculturation identification and acculturative stress on creativity among Iranian immigrants living in Malaysia
Gendered migrations, social reproduction and the household in Europe
Migration, migrants, and human security
The making of gendered 'migrant workers' in youth activation
Digital Labour Platforms in the Italian Domestic Sector
Doing the Dirty Work?
Moving People and Knowledge
Personal Knowledge
East European women as domestics in Western Europe ‐ new social inequality and division of labour among women
Care and social integration in European societies
Care regimes and national employment models
Working Bodies
Gender, Migration, and the Public Sphere, 1850-2005
International Migration and Knowledge
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe
The Servant Problem
Migrant women in male‐dominated sectors of the labour market
Knowledge for what? Wales, militarisation and the endless promotion of the knowledge economy
Introduction
Domestic-Sector Work in the UK
Migration and Care Work in Spain
Cultural economic geography and a relational and microspace approach to trusts, rationalities, networks, and change in collaborative workplaces
Migration and Domestic Work, A European Perspective on a Global Theme
A Migrant World of Services
(Re)defining Care Workers as Knowledge Workers
Is the Knowledge Society Gendered
Defining Expertise in Software Development While Doing Gender
Lost in translation? International migration, learning and knowledge
Divergent development, racialised rights
Brain Abuse”, or the Devaluation of Immigrant Labour in Canada
Emotional labour/body work
Gender and skilled migrants
Gender, immigration policies and accreditation
Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
Skill, Migration and Gender in Australia and Canada
International labour migration and tacit knowledge transactions
The State, Skilled Labour Markets, and Immigration
A Report on Gender Discrimination in South Africa's 2002 Immigration Act
Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers
Mind the Gap!' Integrating Approaches to Internal and International Migration
Combining Economics and Sociology in Migration Theory
La réussite paradoxale des bonnes espagnoles de Paris
Men and Domestic Labor
Whose skill is it anyway
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,54 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |