Research and Markets: Gender and Migration in 21st Century Europe Examines the Consequences of EU Enlargement for Women's Migration Opportunities and Practices

DUBLIN-(Business Wire)-September 2, 2009 - Research and Markets(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8ccf1b/gender_and_migrati) has announced the addition of the "Gender and Migration in 21st Century Europe" report to their offering.

Providing interdisciplinary and empirically grounded insights into the issues surrounding gender and migration into and within Europe, this work presents a comprehensive and critical overview of the historical, legal, policy and cultural framework underpinning different types of European migration. Analysing the impact of migration on women's careers, the impact of migration on family life and gender perspectives on forced migration, the authors also examine the consequences of EU enlargement for women's migration opportunities and practices, as well as the impact of new regulatory mechanisms at EU level in addressing issues of forced migration and cross-national family breakdown. Recent interdisciplinary research also offers a new insight into the issue of skilled migration and the gendering of previously male-dominated sectors of the labour market.

Reviews:

'This excellent diverse collection of strongly interdisciplinary papers further tackles the continued relative invisibility of gender relations within understandings of migration. It demonstrates the frequently negative consequences for women of both internal and international migration but also how the women involved are not simply passive victims of impersonal migration processes.'

Keith Halfacree, Swansea University, UK

'This volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between legal aspects of immigration control and social and economic processes of gendered migration within a Europe whose boundaries are changing. In particular, it provides new perspectives on managing family life, women's careers and criminal justice.'

Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University, UK

Key Topics Covered:

Introduction, Helen Stalford, Samantha Currie and Samantha Velluti
Part 1 Gender, Migration and Managing Family Life: The effect of family migration on union dissolution, Paul J. Boyle, Thomas J. Cooke, Vernon Gayle and Clara H. Mulder
International child abduction and domestic violence in the European Union, Ruth Lamont
Gender perspectives on child trafficking: a case study of child domestic workers, Dianne Scullion. Part 2 The Impact of Migration on Women's Careers: Promoting women? Lessons learned from a study of mobility and fixed-term work in early career researchers, Elizabeth Oliver
Situating women in the brain drain discourse: discursive challenges and opportunities, Parvati Raghuram
Regular migrants in the irregular workplace: Central and Eastern European women in the UK after EU enlargement, Samantha Currie
Migrants in the Italian labour market: gender differences and regional disparities, Salvatore Strozza, Anna Paterno, Laura Bernardi and Giuseppe Gabrielli. Part 3 Gender Perspectives on Immigration Control: ''Awkward aliens'': female migrants, exploitation and the trafficking framework, Heli Askola
Foreign national prisoners, deportations, and gender, Helen Toner
Categorical and plastic boundaries: Albanian migration to Greece, immigration policies and their gender implications, Gabriella Lazaridis
Gender, family unity and migration: discourses and dilemmas, Catherine Sherlock
Conclusion, Helen Stalford, Samantha Currie and Samantha Velluti
Index.