Power, difference and mobility: feminist advances in migration studies

The feminist migration literature in geography has contributed to bringing several critical social theoretical themes to the forefront of migration studies. Specifically, feminists have foregrounded the politics of scale, mobility as political process, questions of subjectivity/identity and critical...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 490 - 506
Main Author Silvey, Rachel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2004
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Feminism
Feminist geography
Geography
Human geography
Literature reviews
Migration
Mobility
Political economy
Politics
Power
Social theory
Society
Subjectivity
Theorists
Theory
migration
politics
scale
mobility
social theory
feminist
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ISSN0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI10.1191/0309132504ph490oa

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Summary:The feminist migration literature in geography has contributed to bringing several critical social theoretical themes to the forefront of migration studies. Specifically, feminists have foregrounded the politics of scale, mobility as political process, questions of subjectivity/identity and critical theorizations of space and place. This article provides an overview of the feminist migration literature organized around these themes. In addition, it argues that feminist migration studies can play a pivotal role in the ongoing project of marrying the materialist concerns of political economy to those of critical social theorists.
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ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1191/0309132504ph490oa