Skilled migrant women and citizenship

• Autores: Umut Erel
• Localización: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries / coord. por Mirjana Morokvasic, Umut Erel, Kyoko Shinozaki, Vol. 1, 2003 (Gender on the Move), ISBN 978-3-8100-3493-9, págs. 261-283
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • This chapter addresses the experiences of skilled migrant women in the labour market and how these are linked to issues of citizenship. I begin by discussing different concepts of citizenship, the relation between citizenship and paid work, and its impact on migrant women. Then I present two cases studies, of migrant women of Turkish background1 in which I discuss the obstacles they encountered in having their skills recognized in Britain and Germany. While these obstacles are a common experience for migrant women, my case studies focus on how the interviewees overcame these difficulties. I examine the resources they mobilized to realize their skills and access a skilled labor market, and thus highlight women’s agency. I look at their agency in the context of gendered and ethnocised processes of skilling, de-skilling and re-skilling. In earlier feminist debates the gendered division in the social construction of skill and professionality has been pointed out (Cockburn, 1986; Philipps & Taylor, 1986; Witz, 1992), here I would like to include the dimension of migration and ethnicity in the social construction of skill.