‘Caring’ Professionals: Global Migration and Gendered Cultural Economy

Shoba Arun

Chapter 7 in Work and Life in the Global Economy, 2010, pp 124-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Women’s participation in the complex fabric of global capitalism is continually changing. In many ways, the contradictions and complexities of women’s lives have increased, altering the ways that the redefined relations of the state, the market and civil society are gendered (Mohanty 2003). Debates on transnationalization, particularly the role of social networks among skilled migrants, are well documented (Smith and Guarnizo 1998; Massey et al. 1999; Vertovec 2002), yet little has been written about the gendered aspects of such global skilled migration and networks. The increasing presence of, and demand for, non-European migrant workers in the Western labour market, particularly in social sectors, offer interesting counter-narratives to existing studies on international migration and networks, particularly on issues of race, class and gender. This paper explores how the processes of the global cultural economy highlight intersections between race, class and gender in the context of transnational skilled migration.

Keywords: Cultural Capital; Skilled Migrant; Permanent Residency; Transnational Actor; Transnational Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230277977_7

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