Gendered Mobilities

To those interested in gendered mobilities:
Call for abstracts of papers, at the ETMU Conference 2016 - Gendered Mobilities, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 25-26 November 2016.
Deadline is September 10, 2016.

Workshop 23: Skills, Organisations and Gendered Mobilities
Migration and mobilities are deeply gendered processes in which social constructions of ‘skills’ play a crucial role (Kofman 2013; Näre 2014). This is especially emphasized in times when nation-states seek to manage migratory mobilities through increasingly restrictive residence permit systems, policy measures and practices, including hierarchical residence permit categories for work-based permits, income limits for family reunification and student visas. The intersections of gender and skills are also visible when migrant divisions of labour are emerging in certain labour sectors, such as nursing, cleaning and catering work. In analyzing such gendered mobilities, the existing research has focused predominantly on the experiences of individual migrant women and men, rather than on the institutionalized and organizational practices. Yet, organizational and institutional processes, the meso-level actors, are key in structuring differently skilled gendered mobilities and the livelihoods and possibilities of individual migrants.