Birds of a Feather in transnational flight: Return, Gender and Mobility-Immobility Strategies Between Ecuador and Spain
This article looks beyond the explanation of returning Ecuadorian migrants in the light of the impact of Spain’s economic crisis, analysing return within the framework of the articulation of mobility and immobility strategies and the social and cultural gendered and inter-generational relations of t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/18531 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/18531 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Return Transnational families Gender Mobility Ecuadorian migration Retorno Familias Transnacionales Género Movilidad Migración ecuatoriana Inmigrantes y refugiados Movimientos sociales 5902.15 Política Social 5906.06 Conflictos Sociales |
| Sumario: | This article looks beyond the explanation of returning Ecuadorian migrants in the light of the impact of Spain’s economic crisis, analysing return within the framework of the articulation of mobility and immobility strategies and the social and cultural gendered and inter-generational relations of transnational households. It addresses the way in which female migration and return are closely linked to women’s role as carers, whilst male return is fre- quently conditioned by crises of masculinity, stemming from the loss of their role as ‘breadwinners’. The article concludes that return must not merely be considered a journey back, but rather as a continuum of mobility, framed by gender ideologies regarding the role of men and women, as well as by inter-generational strategies that are activated within the transnational space. The article is based on the empirical data obtained a multi-sited fieldwork carried out in Spain and Ecuador with Ecuadorian transnational families. |
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