Migration and social reproduction at critical junctures in family life course

Locke, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1810-1902, Seeley, Janet and Rao, Nitya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147 (2013) Migration and social reproduction at critical junctures in family life course. Third World Quarterly, 34 (10). pp. 1881-1895. ISSN 0143-6597

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Abstract

This review paper focuses on low-income migrants in (or from) developing countries and their social reproduction, and asks what this means for their social protection. We focus on the recognition that migration involves (re)negotiations of social reproduction by migrants and their families. These renegotiations are heavily inflected with gendered power relations in ways that are specific to individual and family life course. As such, migration involves taking on new risks and dynamic vulnerabilities in sustaining everyday and intergenerational social reproduction. These are sharpened by the increasing feminisation of migration flows and obstructed by wider changes in social provisioning and exclusionary citizenship regimes. The resulting social protection challenges unfold over lifetimes, and are especially marked at critical periods of transition. Life-course thinking has the potential to theoretically integrate emerging insights from rich empirical studies; doing this supports the rationale for revaluing the importance of social reproduction within debates about migration and social protection.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: development,sdg 1 - no poverty ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3303
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Date Deposited: 19 Jul 2022 18:30
Last Modified: 20 Mar 2023 12:45
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/86658
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.851948

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