WOMEN, GENDER, REMITTANCES AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Gender in a Global/Local World
Series Editors: Jane Parpart, Pauline Gardiner Barber and Marianne H. Marchand
Gender in a Global/Local World critically explores the uneven and often contradictory ways in which global processes and local identities come together. Much has been and is being written about globalization and responses to it but rarely from a critical, historical, gendered perspective. Yet, these processes are profoundly gendered albeit in different ways in particular contexts and times. The changes in social, cultural, economic and political institutions and practices alter the conditions under which women and men make and remake their lives. New spaces have been created economic, political, social and previously silent voices are being heard. North-South dichotomies are being undermined as increasing numbers of people and communities are exposed to international processes through migration, travel, and communication, even as marginalization and poverty intensify for many in all parts of the world. The series features monographs and collections which explore the tensions in a global/local world, and includes contributions from all disciplines in recognition that no single approach can capture these complex processes.
Previous titles are listed at the back of the book
Women, Gender, Remittances and Development in the Global South
Edited by
TON VAN NAERSSEN
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
LOTHAR SMITH
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
TINE DAVIDS,
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
MARIANNE H. MARCHAND
Universidad de las Amricas Puebla, Mexico
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Women, gender, remittances and development in the global South / [edited] by Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand.
pages cm. (Gender in a global/local world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-4619-0 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4724-4620-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-3155-4662-9 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-1347-7807-2 (epub) 1.
Emigrant remittancesDeveloping countries. 2. Man-woman relationshipsDeveloping countries. 3. Women in developmentDeveloping countries. I. Naerssen, A. L. van.
HG5993.W657 2015
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Contents
Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand
Elisabeth Robert
Ton van Naerssen
Ingmar Deenen, Lieke van der Zee and Lothar Smith
Roos Helmich
Phillip Gresham, Marieke Smit and Lothar Smith
Petra Dannecker
Maruja M.B. Asis
Agnes Khoo
Danille de Winter
Marianne H. Marchand
Rahel Kunz
Tine Davids and Francien van Driel
Ton van Naerssen, Lothar Smith, Tine Davids and Marianne H. Marchand
List of Tables and Figures
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Notes on Contributors
Maruja M.B. Asis is Director of Research and Publications at the Scalabrini Migration Center, Quezon City, the Philippines. She is a sociologist who has been working on migration and social change in Asia for many years. She is currently involved in several research projects dealing with migration and development and is the co-editor of the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.
Petra Dannecker is Head of the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include globalization and migration processes, Islamization processes in South and Southeast Asia, gender studies as well as methodologies and qualitative methods of development research. With Gudrun Lachenmann she has published Negotiating Development in Muslim Societies: Gendered Spaces and Translocal Connections (2010) as well as several articles on the migration and development nexus.
Tine Davids is a Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is involved in teaching and research on gender, politics, globalization and (return) migration. Her regional specialization is on Latin America, in particular Mexico. She is co-editor of Rethinking Gender Mainstreaming (Special Issue for Journal of International Development, 2014) and Embodied Engagements: Feminist Ethnography at the Crossing of Knowledge Production and Representation (Special Issue for Women Studies International Forum, 2014).
Ingmar Deenen is a Dutch sociologist and human geographer with a special interest in social policy and issues concerning globalization, migration and development.
Francien van Driel is Assistant Professor in Development Studies at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has published work on gender, globalization, development (policies) and female-headed households in Botswana. Her regional specialization is southern Africa. With Tine Davids she is editor of The Gender Question in Globalization (2005).
Phillip Gresham studied anthropology at San Diego State University before continuing his studies in the Netherlands, where he obtained a masters degree in human geography from the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research interests include the effects of immigration on masculinities and femininities as well as government involvement in migration processes.
Roos Helmich
