UID:
almafu_9961250535002883
Format:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Content:
This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany.
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Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abstract -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Relevance of the Study -- 1.2 Structure of the Study -- Theoretical Part -- 2 Moving with Skills: A Review of the Literature -- 2.1 Historical Overview -- 2.2 Conceptual Overview -- 2.2.1 State -- 2.2.2 Employer -- 2.2.3 Migrants, Families, and Couples -- 2.3 Highly-Skilled Migration Studies -- 2.3.1 Dichotomising Migration -- a. Neoclassical Theory of Migration Flows -- b. Dual Labour Market Theory -- 2.3.2 Deepening Migration -- a. Typologies of Highly-Skilled Migrants -- 2.3.3 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation I -- 2.4 Expatriation Studies -- 2.4.1 Defining Expatriates -- 2.4.2 Assigned Expatriate and Self-Initiated Expatriate -- a. Permanent/Temporal Migration Binary -- 2.4.3 Expatriate Adjustments -- a. Partner and Family -- 2.4.4 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation II -- 2.5 Gender and Highly-Skilled Migration -- 2.5.1 Gender Binaries -- 2.5.2 Gender as a Dichotomous Variable -- 2.5.3 Gender as a Relational and Situational Feature -- a. Women and Highly-Skilled Migration -- b. Migration Family Strategies -- c. Gendered Image of Migration Family Strategies -- 2.5.4 Intermediary Summary: Overcoming the Polarisation -- 3 Decentring the Research on Highly-Skilled Migration and Expatriation: Three Methodological Premises -- 3.1 Decentring and Deconstructing -- 3.2 Methodological Individualism -- 3.2.1 Defining the Family and the Couple -- 3.2.2 The Hidden Economy of Kinship -- 3.2.3 Doing Family -- 3.3 Methodological Nationalism -- 3.3.1 Changing the Entry Points -- 3.4 Methodological Economism -- 3.4.1 Mobility and Migration -- 3.4.2 Temporal Mobilities and Permanent Migration -- 3.4.3 Defining and Problematising the Skills -- 3.5 Research Questions -- Methodological Part.
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4 Research Design -- 4.1 Epistemology -- 4.2 Methods in Practice -- 4.2.1 Accessing the Field -- 4.2.2 Constructing the Interview Corpus -- a. Constructing the Corpus of Interviews -- b. Interview Grid -- 4.2.3 Analysing the Interview Corpus -- a. Objective Data -- b. Subjective Data -- 5 Contextualising the Study -- 5.1 Contextualising the Researcher -- 5.2 Contextualising the Lake Geneva Region and Frankfurt Rhine-Main Region -- 5.2.1 Family Policy in the two Regions -- a. Formal care -- b. Informal and Non-Formal Care -- c. Privatised Formal Care -- Empirical Part -- 6 Professional Careers Coordination -- 6.1 Migration Triggering: An Individual Approach -- 6.1.1 Assigned Expatriate -- 6.1.2 Drawn Expatriate -- 6.1.3 Intra Self-Initiated Expatriate -- 6.1.4 Inter Self-Initiated Expatriate -- 6.2 Migration Triggering: A Collective Approach -- 6.2.1 Primary-Mover and Secondary-Mover -- 6.3 Conceptualising the Professional Careers Coordination -- 6.4 Primary-Mover -- 6.4.1 Expat-Move -- a. Knowing What the Support is About -- b. Not Knowing When and Where the Next Move Will Be -- c. From an Expatriate Contract to a Local Contract -- 6.4.2 Local-Move -- a. Settlement Struggles -- b. Localising the Home-Base -- 6.4.3 Continuum of the Primary-Mover -- a. Relocation of Headquarters -- 6.5 Secondary-Mover and Secondary-Stayer -- 6.5.1 Total-Move of a Partner-Initiated Mover -- a. Coordinating before Relocating -- 6.5.2 Unique Challenges of a Partner-Initiated Mover -- a. Gender Imbalance -- b. Starting from Minus Zero -- c. Seeking Employment Abroad -- 6.5.3 Half-Move of a Partner-Coordinated Mover -- a. Commuting between the Workplace and Home -- b. Teleworking -- c. Maternity Leaves -- 6.5.4 Immobility of a Secondary-Stayer -- 6.5.5 Access to the Labour Force -- a. Types of Skills -- b. Language.
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c. Recognition of the Diplomas and the Recognition of the Previous Professional Experience -- d. Power of Place -- e. Company's Support for the "Secondary-Mover's" Inclusion in the Labour Force -- f. Dual career Network -- 6.5.6 Types of Moves of the Secondary-Mover -- 6.6 Theorising the Professional Careers Coordination -- 7 Representing Migration: Between Motilities and Anchors -- 7.1 Displaying Family -- 7.2 Motile Narratives -- 7.2.1 Structural Constraints -- 7.2.2 Career Men and Career Women -- 7.2.3 Paradoxical Family Men -- 7.3 Anchored Narratives -- 7.3.1 Ignoring Motility -- 7.3.2 Refusing Motility -- 7.3.3 After Motility -- 7.4 Gender and Motility -- 8 Family-Strategies of Highly-Skilled Migrants -- 8.1 Conceptualising the Family-Strategies -- 8.2 Motile Family-Strategy -- 8.2.1 Prioritising one Career -- 8.2.2 Homemaking and Caregiving -- 8.2.3 Company's Support -- g. Support to Relocate -- h. International Schools -- i. Summary of the "Motile Family-Strategy" -- 8.3 Local Family-Strategy -- 8.3.1 Low Support for the Care Work -- 8.3.2 Combination of Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Care Support -- j. Intermediary Summary of the Local Family-Strategy -- 8.3.3 Separations and Divorces -- k. Summary of the Local Family-Strategy -- 8.4 Mobile Family-Strategy -- 8.4.1 Succession of Half-Moves -- 8.4.2 Power-Dynamics -- l. Dual Career and Secondary Stayers -- 8.4.3 Mobile Family-Strategy and Children -- m. Summary of the Mobile Family-Strategy -- 8.5 Theorising the Family-Strategies -- 8.5.1 Care Work Organisation and Social Networks -- 8.5.2 Iterative Logic, Path-Dependency, and Conflicts -- 8.5.3 Mutually Exclusive Model -- Discussion Part -- 9 Theoretical and Empirical Insights -- 9.1 Decentring the Literature and the Research Design -- 9.2 Doing Family on the Move -- 9.2.1 Consequences following the Decision to Migrate.
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9.2.2 Narratives Displaying the Division of the Tasks -- 9.2.3 Family-Strategies -- 10 Recommendations for Practice -- 10.1 Migration, Children, and Gender Wage Gap -- 10.2 Childcare in the Geneva and the Frankfurt regions -- 10.3 Family-Friendly Companies -- 10.4 Summary of the Implications for Further Research and the Recommendations for Practice -- 11 Conclusion: Motility and Mobility -- Appendix -- Bibliography.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-0343-3987-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
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